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skipper wrote a new post, Interpretation 6 years, 9 months 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 […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Oh My, Oh My 6 years, 9 months 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 […]
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“Back in my day we only had polio and the A-bomb. And that was all we needed!”
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skipper wrote a new post, The Creative Brain . . . 6 years, 9 months ago
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 “ […]
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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…
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skipper wrote a new post, Caught between Old and New 7 years ago
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 […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A New Experience 7 years ago
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 […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Changing World 7 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 […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Subscriptions 7 years ago
Just a sampling from the many email subscriptions mariner receives. Perhaps one of them may provide new insight.
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skipper wrote a new post, Mother Nature Continued 7 years ago
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 […]
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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 […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Just to be Human 7 years ago
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 […]
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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 […]
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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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skipper wrote a new post, Humanism – a Threatened Awareness 7 years ago
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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skipper wrote a new post, Touching without Touching 7 years ago
Mariner has never done this before but he feels an old post speaks directly to a latent disorder in our time. We as a nation, as a culture, even as a family member, have stopped touching other people – and other p […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Of Tomatoes and Immigration 7 years ago
֎It was, if you can believe it, only 11 million years ago that tomatoes split away from peppers, evolutionarily speaking. But now, thanks to gene editing technology, scientists may be able to activate genes a […]
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skipper wrote a new post, (no title) 7 years, 1 month ago
About Pass it Forward
֎In Delano, Minnesota, a black family’s home was broken into in March 2017 and a warning was spray-painted on the walls: “Get out.” The vandals left a note, too: “Next time it’s going to b […]
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skipper wrote a new post, About the Shutdown 7 years, 1 month ago
Mariner had a group meeting with his three alter egos. It seems the group has serious concerns about the shutdown. The US is very much in the roiling currents of change on many fronts including economy, […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Power Corrupts 7 years, 1 month ago
The last post, “The mice warned us,” dealt with the self-destructive nature of overcrowding. Calhoun’s mice experiments showed that unity broke down into have and have not classes, that violence erupted in self- […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The mice warned us 7 years, 1 month ago
The early pioneers in psychology, the standard list around the western world is Pavlov, Skinner, Jung, Maslow, Erickson, Rogers, Freud, and Piaget, focused on an individual’s response to reality. These folks h […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Newsy 7 years, 1 month ago
Mariner often is chastised for persistent negativism. It’s not his fault; it’s Amos’s fault. Today, however, mariner makes an effort to report good news. It is about Newsy broadcasts on 283 DISH.
Regular reade […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Happy New Year 7 years, 1 month ago
A new year is upon us. Mariner wishes the best for mankind and especially for his readers. Today, his town has a bright winter Sun; it is cold and quiet outside. For a moment one can sense fulfillment and […]
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You had me at ‘for a moment.’ It is wonderful that the sun is shining and the mariner is full of goodwill toward mankind and his readers! All best wishes for 2019 to the mariner and all of us on this little blue planet. God bless us, every one!
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