The Week That Was: 2020-01-18 (January 18, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Number of the Week: +/- 0.003⁰C THIS WEEK: By…

The Week That Was: 2020-01-11 (January 11, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.” – Albert Einstein Number of the Week: 79% up 16% in two years THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental…

The Week That Was: 2020-01-04 (January 4, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “And that is what science is: the result of the discovery that it is worthwhile rechecking by new direct experience, and not necessarily trusting the [human] race[’s] experience from the past.…

The Week That Was: 2019-12-28 (December 28, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: When asked, what he would tell a generation living 1,000 years from now, Bertrand Russell (1959) replied: “I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral: “The intellectual…

The Week That Was: 2019-12-21 (December 21, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” ― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays Number of the Week: 1/1,000,000,000,000…

The Week That Was: 2019-12-14 (December 14, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “In general, we look for a new law by the following process. First, we guess it (audience laughter), no, don’t laugh, that’s really true. Then we compute the consequences of the…

The Week That Was: 2019-12-07 (December 7, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language. The desire is to have the idea clearly communicated to the other person. It is only necessary…

The Week That Was: 2019-11-30 (November 30, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do.…

Quote of the Week: “We know what’s happening now. It’s the past that keeps changing.” – Old Russian Joke Number of the Week: 110 million people now drowning? THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Grim Future? Historical discussions of the human condition reveal that humans tend to identify themselves…

The Week That Was: 2019-11-16 (November 16, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “’Theories, ideas are wonderful, but to me, they become established when passing tests,’ he continued. “’Theories of course, any bright physicist can make up theories. They could have nothing to do…