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  • skipper wrote a new post, We must talk 6 years ago

    Everyone is aware of the topic ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’. The difficulty is that there is no actual definition, experience or data that defines these terms. Clouding the dialogue is conflict between […]

  • This isn’t about religion. Illicit conversion is a class of fallacy in reasoning which, it turns out, is Donald’s favorite form of argument. Retrieved from one of mariner’s ancient college textbooks on logic […]

  • skipper wrote a new post, Finally 6 years ago

    Winter seems at last to have given in regarding its long battle to deter Spring. An unexpected late frost damaged tomatoes and impatiens enough to delay blooming but all survived even if near the ground level. […]

  • skipper wrote a new post, Did you know? 6 years ago

    Day to day, we forget that if the billions of years of life on Earth were scaled to a twenty-four hour day, our settled civilizations began about a fifth of a second ago. [Falter, McKibben]

    This implies that […]

  • Frequently Mariner is asked to respond to Donald this and Donald that. Mariner does not follow Donald. Mariner spends most of his news gathering time catching up on the world and other matters non-Donald. The […]

  • Mariner was reminiscing the other day about his teen years. That was a time when weekend dances were common in high school gyms. Living on the East Coast, there were summer beach parties, water skiing, Limbo […]

  • skipper wrote a new post, Dancing 6 years ago

    Mariner wrote a post some time ago that defines a physical difference between liberal and conservative thinking (Red Brain, Blue Brain posted June 19, 2015). The difference is where decisions are made in the […]

  • Mariner has a mental image of walking across the Battlefield at Gettysburg during the Civil War. Over 7,000 dead bodies lay strewn across the field; over fifty thousand were wounded. Heavy smoke from gunpowder […]

  • skipper wrote a new post, Interpretation 6 years ago

    ֎ The rising tide of white nationalist violence is in the spotlight in the 2020 presidential race, reports The Washington Post. “I think that’s what the crux of this campaign is going to be about,” said House […]

  • skipper wrote a new post, Oh My, Oh My 6 years ago

    Not enough to worry about? Here’s more:

    ֎ A new paper, based on highly detailed observations taken using the Hubble Space Telescope, appears to confirm that everything in the Universe is expanding too fast – 9 […]

    • Ben replied 6 years ago

      “Back in my day we only had polio and the A-bomb. And that was all we needed!”

  • Over the years mariner has noticed a preference, even a celebration of the human brain’s dexterity and inventiveness. Mariner first noticed this bias in scientists. Remember Carl Sagan? He was famous for saying “ […]

    • I think about this often! When I see a bad car accident, I wonder if the estate of car inventors should have to pay the hospital bill. Or if the gun salesmen should also go to jail when someone gets murdered. Are we responsible for our ideas even if they’re misinterpreted? (An extreme example: when Charles Manson thought a Beatles song was telling him to start a race war.) Or is invention a phenomenon of evolution, which exists beyond our imposed value system? If other animals invented things we deemed harmful, we’d probably think THEY deserved to be punished. Ultimately, I do think most creativity springs from a well-meaning place, and our list of helpful inventions is probably longer than our list of harmful ones…

  • Agriculture scientists report that the weaker one’s scientific knowledge, the angrier they are about genetically modified crops. Previous studies have found that, while genetically modified organism (GMO) o […]

  • A day or two ago, mariner was watching Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. She mentioned that the democratic House of Representatives released their first bill traditionally called HR1. It had strange language in it that was […]

  • skipper wrote a new post, Changing World 6 years ago

    Mariner suspects that Venezuela may go the way of Cuba. In the future G5 computer world, liaisons between nations will become necessary for survival (TPP was an early experiment and the European Union even […]

  • skipper wrote a new post, Subscriptions 6 years ago

    Just a sampling from the many email subscriptions mariner receives. Perhaps one of them may provide new insight.

    ֎3-fold increase
    If you’ve noticed something different happening these past 290 million ye […]

  • The last post recognized how much and how rapidly change is occurring in our global society. It introduced four key areas that drive society: economics, sociology, religion and psychology. The last post addressed […]

  • skipper wrote a new post, Mother Nature 7 years ago

    No one can deny that the times they are a-changin’. They are changing in every corner of economic, sociologic, religious and psychologic areas. Mariner is a gardener and he relates cultural change in human s […]

  • Mariner and his wife moved to this small town when they retired about ten years ago. Culturally, they were dropped into a foreign country. Fortunately, mariner’s wife grew up in the town and had a sense of the c […]

  • skipper wrote a new post, Let it Snow 7 years ago

    Mariner must mention that he is the recipient of a pass it forward experience. His town received a foot of snow yesterday. This morning, two neighbors knocked on his front door asking if it was okay to clear his […]

    • Marty replied 6 years ago

      That is a good way to think about snow. It is inconvenient and lasts too long, but it is not a natural disaster. It is a natural wonder! Thank you for a new perspective!

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    The last post about not touching each other’s lives is symptomatic of our time. There was a time when a person needed another person to help with life, to generate a sense of wholeness. Granted and without qu […]

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