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Ignoring sustainability history
If you can't rewrite history to fit your narrative, the Biden alternative is to ignore (or maybe he just forgot) history. Let's look at...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 18, 20212 min read
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Gabrielle Lucia, our UCLA Bruin
Eighteen years ago, Gaby was a lively, curious, engaging infant, full of life and ready for an incredible future. Jump forward and that...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 17, 20214 min read
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Changing the data to fit the theory to confirm a false conclusion
Are Official US temperature graphs credible? Tony Heller makes another important revelation, an expose of the climate data manipulation...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 17, 20212 min read
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Peter McCollough decries ignoring the science of medicine
March 11, 2021. Why did it take a year before doctors received useful, peer-reviewed, life-saving information on methods fro treating...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 11, 20211 min read
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Facts, not the narrative
March 10, 2021. Don't just tell me a story. Tell me the full story, with facts. As a quick follow up to my last post, about three primary...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 10, 20213 min read
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What causes death with Covid?
March 10, 2021. What causes death with Covid? Articles in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times concluded that a recent decline...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 10, 20213 min read
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From the Binghamton archives: The Harpur years
March 10, 2021. Out of curiosity, I used the web to find a few links to remind me of some details of my six years (1969-1975) at SUNY...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 10, 20211 min read
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Hinman Halitosis
Fourteen years ago, on 19 January 2007, I received a call from an industrious, engaging and curious Binghamton University senior, Brent...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 1, 20216 min read
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Hinman College, 1969-1974
Some older photos from my alma mater. I think my memories of Harpur are often in black and white. And some current shots of Hinman...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 1, 20211 min read
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More Sowell, and then some
More great thoughts and liberating ideas from one of the greatest economists, historians and philosophers of the past hundred years,...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 27, 20213 min read
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The New York (not-worth-the) Times
February 26, 2021. I am no fan of the New York Times. The paper is NOT the paper of record. It should not be the go-to source for...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 26, 20216 min read
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Losing faith in institutions
February 23, 2021. I am losing -- and, in some cases, I have already lost -- faith in many traditionally trusted and respected...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20216 min read
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Hypocrisy of Texas' frozen green follies
The arrogant, uninformed, lunacy from this poorly educated former bartender shows no sign of letting up. What does AOC imply? She seems...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 19, 20211 min read
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Universal basic income won't eliminate or prevent poverty
A February 17, 2021 article by Greg Ip in the Wall Street Journal, "Universal Basic Income Could Be Coming for Kids" (see file below)...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 19, 20214 min read
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My first Pfizer vaccination
All in all, I have no complaints or concerns. Maybe I should have tried to do this earlier but waiting my turn and waiting for my...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 17, 20211 min read
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The great contraction distraction
The Great Contraction Cuts alone will not be enough to turn colleges’ fortunes around. By Lee Gardner The Chronicle of Higher Education...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 16, 20214 min read
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Joy of leaving academe: Remembering where it started
Almost two years out from stepping away, I continue to reflect on my fifty years of higher education, now behind me, I recalled one of...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 14, 20212 min read
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The good news is that the bad news is wrong
February 24, 2021. I am using the title of a thirty-five year old book by Ben Wattenberg to preview today's thought. A 2010 review of the...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 14, 20213 min read
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Eleven lockdown months and counting: A letter to myself
Eleven months have passed since we were told there was to be a two-week lockdown to 'flatten' the curve of the looming viral pandemic. I...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 12, 20214 min read
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Record deaths in the UK? Not even close
For most of the past year I asserted and predicted that overall mortality rates for the United States in 2020 would not be significantly...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 11, 20212 min read
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