Author Archives: DocStephens

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About DocStephens

Retired college professor of science and mathematics, academic administrator, and president (emeritus).

Truth and Tolerance

Three conflicts describe our modern world. 1. Absolute truth versus our opinions of that truth The real truth exists!  But there are your opinions and my opinions about that truth.  Some people believe they are the enlightened, those who know … Continue reading

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Boiling Oceans and Blistering Temperatures

Florida is our home. We’ve lived here most of our lives. We have weather here.  It gets hot in the summer, mostly pleasant in the winter, and near perfect the rest of the year. The regular occurrence of hurricanes spices … Continue reading

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All News is Propaganda

News reports of horrific wildfires on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands grabbed my attention this month.  More than a hundred people died and several weeks later many more remain missing or unidentified.  How could this happen?  I have an image … Continue reading

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Mandate Madness

My grandparents and parents experienced two great wars, an economic depression, and several tragic global pandemics.  No wonder, they treated their children like children.  Something about enduring calamitous ordeals, toughens the strong or destroys the weak.  My parents were among … Continue reading

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A One-Minute Elevator Speech on Climate Change

Has someone ever asked you an important and complicated question that you’d like to answer, but you have a frustratingly brief time to respond?  Your time-limited response is called an elevator speech because you only have the amount of time … Continue reading

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Energy Madness

An important goal of any government should be to ensure sufficient energy for human flourishing that is inexpensive, reliable, safe, and secure.   Without energy we cannot eat, we cannot move, we cannot stay warm or cool, and we cannot protect … Continue reading

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A Harsh Assessment

This website allows me to express my opinions about any number of subjects.  Here, I have freedom of expression without much fear of censorship.  Fortunately, in that regard, those who read my articles do so of their own free will.  … Continue reading

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Why People Disagree

Way back before the Pandemic (BP), I wrote Why Intelligent People Disagree in an attempt to understand why otherwise smart people could come to completely different conclusions about important issues of the day.  Now I’m thinking I should attempt to … Continue reading

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An Imaginary Impeachment Trial

For most of my formal education, finding the square root of a negative number was deemed impossible and even prohibited. Then the math geniuses pulled a fast one.  You see, it was only prohibited in the real number system.  There … Continue reading

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The Political Cost of Energy

The modern world, love it or hate it, requires energy and lots of it.  Everything we do uses energy, from transportation, to electricity, for heating and cooling our homes, for healthcare, for agriculture and food production, for every kind of … Continue reading

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