Science

Climate Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBF2mOz5FwE&t=45s Climate Change is defined by NASA as “. . . a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates” (NASA). Although there is a vast amount of data analyzed by climatologists which detail the effects of Climate Change, as well as its mostly anthropogenic […]

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Philosophy of Science

(Black Swan in Konya, 2017. Joseph Kimsey). Per Karl Popper, the claim that all swans are white is falsifiable, as black swans demonstrably exist. Karl Popper had an overriding desire to distinguish between authentic science and pseudoscience. For Popper, Einstein had developed a theory that was scientifically falsifiable – unlike Marxist economic theory, or Freudian

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Mindfulness

(Buddha in Repose, National Museum of Antiquities, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 2018. Joseph Kimsey) Mindfulness is defined by Merriam-Webster as “the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one’s thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis” (Merriam-Webster). While mindfulness is not necessarily a concept normally tied to the social sciences, it

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