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By John Droz, Jr.
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— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —
Secondary Education Related:
*** Why Critical Thinking Is Still the Most Valuable Skill You Can Learn
*** Why Critical Thinking Is the Most Important Skill in Your Life
*** The Power of Critical Thinking: How Durable Skills Shaped My Career
*** Poll Underscores Need for Coalition’s Science Education
Texas state education adopts new standards, and leftists are not happy
Higher Education Related:
*** Citing ‘severe’ math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants
Why the Worst Get on Top in Academia
Why you shouldn’t go to Harvard
New Book Encapsulates Higher Ed’s Problems
Artificial Intelligence:
*** More Critical Thinking about AI
Google’s Gemini AI admits it is unfit for purpose: ‘You should not trust a single thing I say’
China Pours More Fuel On The AI Arms Race Fire
Greed Energy Economics:
*** We’re Winning the War on the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE)
*** Can solar and wind + batteries really provide 24/7/365 electricity?
What it really takes to meet the materialistic demands of the modern world
Unreliables Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Wyoming Rally: Save the Eagles, Stop Wind
When Wind Turbines Kill Wildlife, Environmentalists Look Away
Unreliables (General):
Wind Energy — General:
Interior in $765M offshore wind buy-out deal with Invenergy
Nuclear Energy:
*** Small nuclear is advancing rapidly
*** Would You Rather Live Near a Battery Energy Storage System or a Nuclear Plant?
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** US Natural Gas In A Dominant Position For Decades To Come
Oil Plummets After Tentative US-Iran Peace Deal Announced
Everyone Wants Affordable Energy. Nobody Wants to Cut the Ribbon.
Misc Energy:
*** Don’t Blame Data Centers for PJM’s Failures
Tribute to Travis Fisher: A Young Man to Whom Old Men Should Listen
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** The History of Greenpeace: The Evolution of Green Extremism
National Academy Persists in Fearmongering
Conservatives rattled by Trump DOJ’s Supreme Court climate brief
The World Health Organization and Their Specious “Health Care Crisis”
Politico’s Climate News Site Shutters a Year After Gov’t Turned Off Taxpayer Spigot
Net Zero is reversing the Industrial Revolution
US Election:
*** Matt Taibbi: American Elections Are a Joke
Is It Still Election Fraud When It’s Legal?
Dead Voters, Double Registrations, And The Law States Are Ignoring
US Federal Agencies:
*** Tulsi Gabbard Announces Release of ‘Never Before Seen’ Intelligence on Biolabs
Misc US Politics:
*** George Will: Graham Platner’s ‘journey’ evades accountability
*** Sharyl Attkisson: Silent Drain — An Ignored Emergency
*** US Conservatives Can Either Hang Together, or Hang Separately
Video: “Listen Like You Might Be Wrong” | Harvard Student’s Viral Speech
Data Show Freeing Economies Doesn’t Harm the Environment
Critically Thinking about Our Future
Societally US:
*** Will Western Civilization Survive?
*** The Illusion of Uniformity: Why the Modern Social Justice Paradigm Falters
*** Women Cannot Have It All—And That Is The Point
Banking agencies announce additional actions to remove reputational risk
Civilizations That Forget Themselves Invite Others In
The Most Important Lesson Today’s Children Aren’t Learning
Globalism:
The Great Political Transition
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive “Dialog Society”
Religion Related:
*** Young men are returning to church — and it could reshape America’s future
“Can We?” Or “Should We?”: Why Science Is Deadly Without Christ
Steven Spielberg says new ‘Disclosure Day’ film will raise theological questions
Mental Health:
*** The Psychology Fraud That Is Destroying Western Civilization
*** How Reading Promotes Longevity
*** The Federal Council That investigates Parkinson’s Spike Must Treat the Disease as Preventable
Health (Other):
*** Biolabs and a Legacy Media that Can’t Handle the Truth
*** “Silent Spring” Was the Death Knell for Hundreds of Millions of Africans
Legitimate New Loopholes in California’s Mandatory School Vaccine Scheme
“The Sunlight Solution” Argues More Time in the Sun Can Help Americans Heal
COVID-19 — Misc:
*** New Florida Lawsuit Targets Pfizer Over Alleged COVID Shot Harm
For Warner Mendenhall, A Letter to a Friend Who is Gone, But Not Gone
Humanity Cannot Afford to Forget the Dire Toll COVID Took Upon Us All
Ron Johnson Senate hearings: “Does mRNA vaccine cause cancer?”
Iran:
*** Victor Davis Hanson dissects how critics completely misread the Iran deal
*** Iran Deal Can Work If We Hit Them Every Time They Break It
Video: 1984 and Islam
Israel/Ukraine:
Pray for the safety of the Israeli people
Latest Developments in Ukraine
Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people
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