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skipper commented on the post, Mariner warned about this 9 months, 1 week ago
Outstanding philosophical statement! Amen to that.
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skipper wrote a new post, Mariner warned about this 9 months, 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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skipper commented on the post, More about happy 9 months, 2 weeks 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 9 months, 2 weeks 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 9 months, 2 weeks 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 9 months, 2 weeks 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 9 months, 2 weeks 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? 9 months, 3 weeks 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? 9 months, 3 weeks 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 9 months, 4 weeks 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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? 10 months, 3 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 10 months, 4 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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skipper wrote a new post, How does Holy Father Trump sound? 11 months ago
The only daily news mariner reads are the email titles from news websites. He avoids television news. However, given a decent education and actively pursuing information during two presidential elections, he has a […]
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skipper wrote a new post, AI and Humans do not use the same logic 11 months ago
Mariner was reading through an old scientific journal published in 2022 when he came across an article about how computer logic and brain logic do not reason in the same way. The comparison watched the brain […]
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skipper commented on the post, Are we tongue tied? 11 months ago
Well spoken, Robert. Where would our vowels and consonants be without aspiration slurring by the lips and all those other skeleton parts? You note that consonants also can be slurred with skeletal manipulations. An abstract example of mariner’s premise: The first wolf, Canus lupus appeared about 1 million years ago. Today there are several…[Read more]
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skipper wrote a new post, Are we tongue tied? 11 months ago
As many folks may experience, a sound sleep may be disturbed by a brain chasing some weird thoughts during the night. Mariner experienced this phenomenon last night when he was disturbed through the night by his […]
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Well spoken, Robert. Where would our vowels and consonants be without aspiration slurring by the lips and all those other skeleton parts? You note that consonants also can be slurred with skeletal manipulations. An abstract example of mariner’s premise: The first wolf, Canus lupus appeared about 1 million years ago. Today there are several varieties of wolves and countless variations of dogs – even the wiener schnitzel. But they are all variations of lupus, that is, vowels and consonants constrained by the human genome.
While my insights were derived from a troublesome night’s sleep and somewhat simplistic, still I believe we are close in our definition of the issue – if only I were a world renowned philologist.
Great retort!
Skipper
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Outstanding philosophical statement! Amen to that.
You have taste, Robert.