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skipper wrote a new post, Your next book to read 1 year, 9 months ago
Several days ago mariner’s wife brought home a book from the library she thought might interest him. Like many in today’s world, he often feels reading is not part of the world of speed and instant opinion. Rea […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Meet a friend of mine 1 year, 9 months ago
Mariner invites you to watch a short video about artificial intelligence:
Watch now – https://truepic.com/revel/
The news item from which mariner copied this video also mentioned an AI version of Barack […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Going to the circus 1 year, 9 months ago
Get out your balloons and confetti! It’s “Arrest Donald” Day. And, frankly, that’s just about all of its real political/legal value. Still, let’s enjoy the day that proved Donald actually can be arrested. […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Western Europe 1 year, 9 months ago
As a metaphor, consider Western Europe, from Norway and Iceland in the north to Sardinia and Crete in the south and Turkey, though Asian, as a warm-blooded creature. The various nations are organs. The […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Part 2 math – 1 year, 9 months ago
Mariner forgot to include his own example of quantum physics versus Einsteinian physics, which he believes describes more clearly the difference in definition between the two than Schrodinger’s cat:
You are d […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A bit of mathematics 1 year, 9 months ago
Most phenomena lay beyond the existential reasoning of the mind. Those who want to explore this other world must learn the magic of mathematics. Here are a few samples that reveal logical conclusions beyond […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Cracks in the dam 1 year, 9 months ago
In a recent post, it was suggested that the current state of affairs, probably a global phenomenon, was a conflict between collective communities and top-down governance. The conflict occurs as differences in […]
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skipper wrote a new post, New signs 1 year, 9 months ago
Bottom up power: [Politico] “The country’s 900 or so rural electric cooperatives serve remote rural customers and are member-driven, -owned and -controlled. Their nonprofit status has made it hard to make inv […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Is Big Better? 1 year, 10 months ago
The news from every quarter, whether conservative, liberal, science, democracy or dictatorship, it is the same: There isn’t enough to go around. An increasing number of nations are participating in or p […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Shazam, he’s back 1 year, 10 months ago
Mariner’s blog has been out of service for a few weeks. The reader hasn’t needed him to know the world is the same. He read an article yesterday that drew compassion: More and more migrants are attempting to ent […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Mariner’s comics – 1 year, 10 months ago
Ancient Mariner
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I appreciate the last panel, concise and incisive.
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skipper wrote a new post, At the root 1 year, 11 months ago
$1 in 1980 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $3.63 today, an increase of $2.63 over 43 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.04% per year between 1980 and today, producing a cumulative […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Battle against dementia 1 year, 11 months ago
No matter what you believe or what your opinion is, if you are of retirement age, you have dementia. Dementia is a spectrum disorder; it grows very, very slowly, so slowly you aren’t aware of its incursion into y […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Bang, you’re dead and you, and you. 1 year, 11 months ago
Guns. They are the most important issue among U.S. citizens today. Those citizens want something done tout suite. Yes, citizens are stuck with a weaponized and intergenerational Congress but that ain’t all. Read t […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Climate Change w/o politics 1 year, 11 months ago
Many of us have taken note of the population shift away from industrial, high populated areas and a move toward more rural areas especially in the southern states, e.g., Texas and Florida. These shifts are […]
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skipper wrote a new post, More misguiding information taught in schools 1 year, 11 months ago
It steadily is in the news that public school curricula are teaching the wrong things. Even in colleges there is pressure to stop teaching liberal arts because it is useless and encourages meritocracy. Much of […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Paranthropus 1 year, 11 months ago
Mariner often wondered where his uncle Frank got his good looks . . .
Copied from Science Magazine
A recent discovery covered in Science Magazine revealed that a distant Homo ancestor was more […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Stuff 1 year, 11 months ago
֎ Wiley hit a home run with this one:
Mariner is reminded of the analogy of a pig wearing lipstick. Modern humans are proud of their lipstick, but they are still pigs.
֎ Here’s a no-brainer for […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Big Picture 1 year, 11 months ago
Like the scene on the battlefront in a war, there is much smoke, flying debris, destruction and conflict, but the scene is a battle for the ethos of the United States. Mariner decided to get above the commotion by […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Population 1 year, 11 months ago
For the last few days mariner has been poking about in information about global population. As a general introduction to the subject, below is a clip from the New Statesman, a British web magazine:
“Japan’s pri […]
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Actually this book came from Allison, Colorado daughter-in-law and Millennial. She is in the midst of a working life with young children and did not have time to read it right now so sent it home with me. Only Boomers have the luxury of time to read while we continue to mess with the culture, right to the bitter end! What a good review! It is interesting to realize that so many aspects of one’s life–and the life of our country–was dictated by sheer numbers. And to extrapolate from that that everyone’s life experience is dictated by the times in which we are born. And the family we are born into. And the body we inhabit. Isn’t all of life endlessly interesting? Thanks, Mariner!