Paul Strode

@pks
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I teach biology, anatomy, science research, and future science teachers. I also bike, hike, run, and swim. I occasionally blog at https://mrdrscienceteacher.wordpress.com/#scicomm#teachereducator#teachersfollowteachers#STEM
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Morning routine #dogsofmastodon

This is a short sighted and irresponsible. Climate change from global warming is “too much, too fast, and too costly.”

“Orsted’s decision today confirms that Republicans were right when we said this was too much, too fast, and too costly,” said Senator Anthony M. Bucco, the Republican minority leader in Trenton, in a statement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/nyregion/wind-power-key-to-democrats-climate-change-goals-faces-a-crisis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Wind Power, Key to Democrats’ Climate-Change Goals, Faces a Crisis

Instead of gathering momentum, the industry is confronting obstacles that could hinder its ability to realize the renewable resource’s promised benefits.

The New York Times
Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department.

Schools for children of military members achieve results rarely seen in public education.

The New York Times

You have a 17th Century understanding of the immune system and vaccination science if you accept the careless disinformation coming from Ron DeSantis and his Surgeon General.

Bashing covid boosters, DeSantis contrasts with Trump and worries experts https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/16/desantis-booster-shots-covid-trump/

Bashing boosters, DeSantis contrasts with Trump and worries health experts

DeSantis’s posture against the covid shots is at odds with the advice of leading public health officials and experts and shows how he is seeking to make his position a 2024 campaign issue.

The Washington Post
Last night’s moon. Almost full at 99%.

"And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis.”

He was a church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis - https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity

“If you elect a serial liar and conman, a narcissist, bully, wannabe mobster, with the vocabulary of an emotionally insecure 9-year-old, you can’t really be shocked at how it turned out, can you?

“This is what Trump wanted, because this is what he chose.”

https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-mugshot?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Mugshot

This presidential portrait was inevitable, wasn’t it?

The Bulwark

“The former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and the resulting attack on the U.S. Capitol, place him squarely within the ambit of the disqualification clause, and he is therefore ineligible to serve as president ever again.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/donald-trump-constitutionally-prohibited-presidency/675048/

Trump Is Constitutionally Prohibited From the Presidency

The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.

The Atlantic
I started my 33rd year in Science Education today.