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skipper wrote a new post, The Old Bunch 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
Picked this article from AOL news:
“This Brain Disease Is Set To Double Worldwide By 2050. Are We Prepared? What Scientists Say.
While a lot of new scientific studies are focused on better understanding and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The other side 3 days ago
Mariner has had 38 distinct jobs in his life. Everything from delivering newspapers to a contract in Taiwan building a computer system for the nation’s first fighter aircraft. He can avow that jobs shape one’s […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Change 4 days, 3 hours ago
Change can be good when it is needed. Changing underwear for example or cleaning the attic or buying another car. Every once in a while governments need to change, too. The issues are who (who changes one’s […]
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skipper commented on the post, Mariner warned about this 1 week ago
You have taste, Robert.
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skipper commented on the post, Mariner warned about this 1 week ago
Outstanding philosophical statement! Amen to that.
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skipper wrote a new post, Mariner warned about this 1 week ago
The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern Hemisphere thousands of years ago during the last ice age. But for now, as a s […]
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Outstanding philosophical statement! Amen to that.
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You have taste, Robert.
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skipper commented on the post, More about happy 1 week, 2 days ago
Eccentric but a good example of keeping happiness in the conscious mind.
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skipper wrote a new post, More about happy 1 week, 2 days ago
Recent posts were about finding a happy place to live. There is no question that the US is, generally, an unhappy place to live. The economic pressures putt on the citizenry are unheard of and the President […]
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Eccentric but a good example of keeping happiness in the conscious mind.
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skipper wrote a new post, SA answers 1 week, 5 days ago
Mariner knows this is unnecessary but he promised the answers.
Ancient Mariner
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skipper wrote a new post, Turtles like to dance 1 week, 6 days ago
This post owes its topics to the March 2025 issue of Scientific American magazine.
First, did the reader know turtles like to dance? A scientific study of the sea turtle discovered that when it arrives at a […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Best measure of national content 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Generally speaking, the way a nation measures its economic health is by measuring its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GDP is an economic phrase that means ‘how much profit ls generated’. Since the Second World War, […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Where is everyone? 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Mariner has written many posts about how social relationships are affected by economics, industrialism and technology. Most often, the relationship turns out to be a visible impact on specific generations. Because […]
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skipper wrote a new post, What? 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Seasoned readers know mariner is old. He has been old long enough to recognize that there are new habits about every phase of life. From time to time he will recognize his new ‘old-age’ habits. There was the time […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Collections 3 weeks, 3 days ago
What does the reader collect? Books of fiction? perhaps many cookbooks or manuals or business notes or hobbies? Mariner’s wife is a librarian, an avid fiction reader, and has a collection of books about authors. […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Dormancy 3 weeks, 4 days ago
One doesn’t usually think of dormancy as an active response to a situation. It is common to recognize dormancy in bears and frogs and of course in the plant world where endless species shut down to a dormant, […]
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skipper commented on the post, Mother Earth's Code of ethics 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Well spoken. But lest we head down an endless slope, we should ignore sapiens lifestyle for the moment.
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skipper wrote a new post, Mother Earth's Code of ethics 4 weeks ago
Mariner has been reading and watching educational shows more than usual because the rife of today’s world seems beyond the pale. One is horrified when one sees how much of humanity lives life in ten square feet of […]
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Well spoken. But lest we head down an endless slope, we should ignore sapiens lifestyle for the moment.
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skipper wrote a new post, About Era shifting 4 weeks ago
Greetings, Readers
It has been pleasant, if not rewarding, avoiding television news. Watching headlines is a lot like taking slaps to the face over and over. Mariner does keep track generally through his own […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Ever metaphor? 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Greetings, readers – This is an unusual post about one of our intellectual tools – the metaphor. The human brain has a logical process that, he suspects, AI and all its fellow technologies will never master – […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Good AI perspective 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Virtually every commentary about AI approaches the topic at a too low perspective: the impact on jobs, privacy, energy vulnerability, etc. In fact, AI is a global issue that will change global politics, global […]
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