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03 January 2024

SPREZZATURA

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 —Your task once you put on the headset is to explore the world around you until you locate the beaver.     The world presents itself much l...
07 May 2023

A Free Person's Worship

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"To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things—thi...
27 September 2022

Walther Ruttman, Lichtspiel Opus 1 (1921)

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23 May 2022

Achieving Kardashev Type 1 Civilization

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As anyone who's read much of what I've posted here over the years should know, besides Literature and Philosophy, I'm interested...
31 January 2022

THE LIAR'S PARADOX (Epimenides's too!)

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The Epimenides paradox goes something like this: “Epimenides the Cretan says, ‘that all the Cretans are liars,’ but Epimenides is himself a ...
05 November 2021

Goodbye, Cruel (Social Media) World

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Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now . Here they are in his own words (but go to the link and find ...
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27 March 2021

Jekyll Island: Rising seas, Sinking ships, Spindrift

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Jekyll Island, GA , is one of those places you can never forget. A barrier island of the coast of Brunswick, its inland salt marsh is a uni...
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21 February 2021

An 'Other' Mystery

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Here’s a sad tale—but an interesting one. A mystery. Every morning for the past couple of weeks I’ve been woken up by the sound of a small b...
24 December 2020

THING —> HAPPEN

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Here are some things we know (or at least think we do): Our universe of space and time is something like 13.8 billion years old, and getting...
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10 September 2020

PANIC vs. PANDEMIC: DOING THE HARD MATH

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We all know that hard decisions require hard trade-offs. Believe it or not, I take Trump at his word that he chose to downplay the deadly da...
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