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skipper wrote a new post, Growth in stages 2 days, 23 hours ago
Thanks to Axios for this article.
If you’re close to your 9th, 32nd, 66th or 83rd birthday, you’re approaching one of four pivotal shifts in brain development.
That’s according to a new study in Nature […]
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skipper wrote a new post, It's time to deadhead – us or AI? 5 days, 4 hours ago
Our first fully intended, and fully human and fully placed in an artificial reality, has arrived. No, not Mickey Mouse. No, not Arnold Schwarzenegger. No, not Taylor Swift. Our new flame is one Tilly […]
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skipper wrote a new post, ! 6 days, 4 hours ago
Mariner has a tag line that often causes a response. Many people use the trite phrase, “Kill two birds with one stone.” What did birds ever do? Mariner says “Kill two people with one bullet”.
Yes, it’s that […]
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In reply to the aptly titled !, I’m glad Mariner has a safe haven in Nosey Mole’s tunnel. Is there room for all of us down there? Poor Nosey!
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skipper wrote a new post, A Nice followup 1 week ago
This is a nice followup to mariner’s post, ‘Good News’. It is published by Axios:
It’s Giving Tuesday — the annual day when people across America and around the world donate to the causes and organizations t […]
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skipper commented on the post, Good News 1 week, 4 days ago
Your insight into the immediate future is quite accurate, Ben. Thank you for contributing. Do I understand that water rights are a first-come privilege?
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skipper wrote a new post, Good News 1 week, 4 days ago
Over the last month or so, mariner has seen a notable increase in efforts to save water. What is even better, water projects frequently are implemented at the ‘grass roots’ level. These efforts are documented in […]
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Alas, my state has “prior appropriation” water rights and capturing rainwater is explicitly illegal! (That water “belongs” to senior water rights holders in the watershed the rain falls upon.)
I definitely agree that household autarky will be increasingly important in the mid-term future, as any products or services we rely on become points of late-stage capitalist exploitation. Most will have difficulty decoupling from the economy when it comes to housing, food, energy, education, transportation, water, and networking.
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Your insight into the immediate future is quite accurate, Ben. Thank you for contributing. Do I understand that water rights are a first-come privilege?
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skipper wrote a new post, Faster than a speeding genome 1 week, 6 days ago
Evolution has left the human body.
First Aboriginals in Australia. Using a diverse database of DNA from ancient and contemporary Aboriginal people throughout Oceania, researchers have determined that people […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Measuring the fog 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Readers are aware of mariner’s concerns about the future. Specifically, there are four global phenomena that are trying to make serious changes to the status quo of human life and to the planet.
The first to be […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Back by popular demand 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Indeed so! By popular demand, mariner’s wife submits one of her witty poems:
Housekeeping
Company was coming so I thought I should clean up a bit
Those dusty windowsills, for instance,
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skipper commented on the post, Some issues are more important 3 weeks ago
So sorry, Robert. Welcome to my world – everything is a puzzle. Read my response to Marty; the puzzle is a bit of Schrodinger because one rear hoof and one front hoof frequently make a simultaneous sound and unless one consults an equine specialist, we can’t be sure.
Share your answer with mariner’s: William Tell Overture is a favorite with you,…[Read more] -
skipper commented on the post, Some issues are more important 3 weeks ago
I agree with your approach. Reality suggests that having four legs requires four clops. However, a clop is ill defined and subject to opinion and undefined physiology – is the first leg after being airborne a ‘cane’ to carry momentum forward to another stride or is it a final thrust from the current stride? My choice is to go with William Tell -…[Read more]
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skipper wrote a new post, Some issues are more important 3 weeks, 1 day ago
For example, in one stride, how many clop sounds does a galloping horse make? In the past this has been a troubled issue that folks went to a lot of trouble answering. How many clop sounds does the reader think a […]
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I think 3. Will there be an answer? Also, if a horse gallops through a forest and no one hears it, did it clop at all?
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I agree with your approach. Reality suggests that having four legs requires four clops. However, a clop is ill defined and subject to opinion and undefined physiology – is the first leg after being airborne a ‘cane’ to carry momentum forward to another stride or is it a final thrust from the current stride? My choice is to go with William Tell – I love his overture and the rhythm strongly suggests three clops.
But if you are intrigued by onomatopoeia, log on to YouTube for endless renditions or search for professional studies of horse physiology.
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So sorry, Robert. Welcome to my world – everything is a puzzle. Read my response to Marty; the puzzle is a bit of Schrodinger because one rear hoof and one front hoof frequently make a simultaneous sound and unless one consults an equine specialist, we can’t be sure.
Share your answer with mariner’s: William Tell Overture is a favorite with you, too, right?
Maybe you are a natural onomatopoeist . .skipper
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skipper wrote a new post, Jesus scrolled 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Mariner’s local church is having difficulty sustaining its congregation. This is a common phenomenon across the nation. But the inevitable has happened – Jesus, meet Chatbot. Mariner cries in his heart as the true […]
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skipper wrote a new post, He is back 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Mariner. Nobody special, just mariner. He has been visiting for a few days with long-time friends who live on a gorgeous property among the mountains of Arkansas. One could write tomes about the differences […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Sailing 1 month ago
Sailing is an excellent metaphor for many of life’s experiences. There are the times when preparing to sail is overwhelming in its endless detail and distractions; there are times, while underway, when the weather […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Paint your lifetime in a picture 1 month ago
Isn’t this an interesting thought? Imagine you are in a class of some kind and the assignment is to present your life experience in a painting. What would you paint? Perhaps some of your major events either of […]
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skipper wrote a new post, How long since you foraged? 1 month, 1 week ago
If one isn’t sure that evolution is at play in the way Homo sapiens is evolving, consider foraging.
Many of us are familiar with the nomadic model of foraging. Most kinds of animals forage today. In parts of […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A gift from Politico 1 month, 1 week ago
What an outstanding interview with Julia Angwin. Julia Angwin is a veteran investigative reporter and publisher known for groundbreaking, data-driven stories on the power of technology over our lives. She founded […]
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skipper wrote a new post, There's a weed in the garden 1 month, 1 week ago
If the reader has ever had a garden, they know the real trouble spot is weeds. Weeds sneak into the lawn or garden as tiny, well behaved plants; they may even have flowers. But gardeners know very quickly the nice […]
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I’ve been watching this year’s World Series. You’d be amazed at the number of AI “services” (apps, whatever the term is) that have been advertised.
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skipper commented on the post, Whither we goest? 1 month, 1 week ago
A cogent response – evolution never learned to use scissors so shifts in history are always vague and take lots of time.
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