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skipper wrote a new post, Thank you! 10 months ago
This column from AXIOS:
“What if instead of getting presents on our birthdays, we gave gifts?
That’s the question author Daniel Pink explores in a recent Washington Post column.
Why it matters: Acts of […]
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skipper commented on the post, Transition 10 months ago
Thanks for a good example, Marc. At least there is an effort to talk about human communication and sensitivity. If only our Evangelical movement would make the same effort.
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skipper commented on the post, Transition 10 months ago
Alas, just as Chicken Little was a minor presence in mariner’s posts, so, too, Nosey will not be a major influence. Surely you appreciate that it will take a lot for Nosey to stick his head out to be whacked. You may sense his influence by a lack of chicken Little characteristics, given Armageddon et al.
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skipper wrote a new post, Transition 10 months ago
There are a few things about which to take note.
֎ First, read the following quote from Scientific American:
” Now researchers led by Daniela Angulo of the University of Toronto have revealed another […]
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May I suggest that the picture of Nosy Mole accompany each post? He has an intrepid and whimsical look about him that is very appealing.
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Alas, just as Chicken Little was a minor presence in mariner’s posts, so, too, Nosey will not be a major influence. Surely you appreciate that it will take a lot for Nosey to stick his head out to be whacked. You may sense his influence by a lack of chicken Little characteristics, given Armageddon et al.
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Regarding public school education: one of our grandsons who is twelve and in the 6th grade needed help with a homework assignment while staying with us over the weekend. He was given examples of human interaction and was asked to identify which showed sympathy, which showed empathy and which showed compassion. While I realize I am not well read after spending my life as a steamfitter I thought this was a particularly difficult assignment. We helped him use a dictionary to define each word but the examples of human behavior were not clear cut enough for the definitions to help much. Fortunately he achieved a 70 on the assignment and was happy he passed.
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Thanks for a good example, Marc. At least there is an effort to talk about human communication and sensitivity. If only our Evangelical movement would make the same effort.
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skipper wrote a new post, Chicken Little moved to hospice 10 months ago
Afraid so. It is true that evolution is the dynamic element in all the universe – including galaxies, solar systems, life of every kind and certainly every conceivable element of existence – including the planet […]
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How about Mopey Mole? Nearsighted enough not to see the larger picture, and comfortable enough because he can’t. Mopey because every time he peeks up to look around, he gets whacked!
That’s a suggestion, but I have to say I will miss Chicken Little’s energy. Fortunately he is only in hospice and might yet recover. As might the world as we know it. Not the world as we knew it, but the world nevertheless.
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skipper wrote a new post, Mariner apologizes for writing a negative post 10 months ago
In the news today:
At Meta’s annual Connect conference last week, Zuckerberg strode onstage — wearing a t-shirt bearing the phrase aut Zuck aut nihil (“All Zuck or all nothing”) — to demonstrate the compa […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Liberal Arts – the Military Academy of cultural mandates a year ago
Mariner loves metaphors. One came to mind as he pondered the last post on college education: 40% of the nation’s young people went to college. Perhaps 95% of these students studied the same textbooks and learned […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Bachelor's degree a year ago
One of the societal areas most affected by cultural bias and economics over the last forty years has been the prejudice associated with having a college bachelor’s degree. In a period when US inflation rose 283%, […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Important news a year ago
It is certainly true and defensible that the first concern of any species is its own survival and Homo sapiens is an excellent example on a grand scale. But there is comfort to be found in that the rest of […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A pleasant visit to the 17th century a year ago
Mariner and his wife often schedule small day trips to places never visited or not visited in a long time. The destinations almost always are within fifty miles round trip. They have visited small parks, […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Short perspective on Middle East a year ago
The circumstances in the Middle East have been longstanding. Other geographical nation groups have transitioned, in the words of Wikipedia, “The period between 500BCE and 1500CE was marked by economic and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain a year ago
Remember that old song from the sixties? It came to mind as mariner sat by the window the other day watching it rain. The song spoke of romantic issues but what came to mind was the orderliness of rain. What […]
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What a delightful post! So many things about this planet are gifts over which we have no control. Rain often comes with lack of sunshine which causes a dip in my outlook on life–until I remember that we depend on water in every possible way. What a gift when it falls freely from the sky!
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It was a delightful post and I will try to keep that in mind the next time rain disturbs my orderly life.
P.S. All posts received.
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skipper wrote a new post, November 5 2024 a year ago
That is the date of the upcoming election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Trump has made it crystal clear that there will be an honest election only if he wins. He promises chaos if he doesn’t win. […]
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skipper commented on the post, In these times a year ago
Good judgment, Marc. My real estate business suffered a similar demise because venture capitalists bought the bank where he maintained a company loan.
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skipper wrote a new post, Beware the Eye of Sauron a year ago
An icon from J.R. R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’, The Eye is constantly watching for an opportunity to strike evil in the world. Tolkien references Sauron as the most complete evil. Throughout many […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Homo sapiens is a lot like crabgrass a year ago
Instead of writing about these things, mariner will drop the lead-ins and sources so the reader can check out the ones of interest.
֎ Scientists Make ‘Cyborg Worms’ with a Brain Guided by AI — AI and tiny worm […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The education experience a year ago
In the last post, mariner wrote about habits stored in the brain which were hard to dislodge. It occurred to him that the manner in which education is applied to students also is suffering from old habits that are […]
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skipper wrote a new post, It's different today a year ago
In the last post, mariner cited a man who had lost his brain functions but could still make breakfast. The article citing him was about habit and how much of our behavior is managed by a special part of the brain […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Know a song? a year ago
I’m gonna buy a paper doll that I can call my own
A doll that other fellows cannot steal
And then, the flirty, flirty guys with their flirty, flirty eyes
Will have to flirt with dollies that are realWhen I […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Neanderthal a year ago
If one looks hard enough on television one can find excellent documentaries. Mariner recommends a documentary on Netflix about the Neanderthal. It was engrossing enough to provoke him into visiting several books […]
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