The Week That Was: 2019-02-23 (February 23, 2019)

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The Science and Environmental Policy Project

Quote of the Week:?Don?t pay attention to ?authorities,? think for yourself.?? ? Richard Feynman, ?The Quotable Feynman?

Number of the Week: Not ?1.57 billion, but closer to ?7 billion

THIS WEEK:

By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)

It?s Not Real; It?s Puccini: People often suspend realism. In the movie ?Spiderman? the hero swings through the canyons of Manhattan using threads of ?spider silk? he attaches from building to building as he travels down the street. In Puccini?s La Boheme, the leading lady sings a beautiful aria on her death bed, in the last stages of consumption, tuberculous filling her lungs will bodily fluids. The realist may say that is not possible…