The Weather Turned Last Night
When I woke up this morning, the blue sky was now overcast and the predicted high temp for the day dropped ten degrees from yesterday. Something had changed overnight. When I opened my email over breakfast...
Category: About Society
Life, one anecdote involving a small group of bored high school kids
One spring weekend, a small group of three or four teenage boys hatched some plan to drive to a neighboring town, meet up with an acquaintance which purportedly had free tickets to a movie. As so...
Humanity from beginning to end in 3.2 million years
Two interesting texts describe humanity from both ends of the spectrum. Wanderlust , a History of Walking by Rebecca Solnet. 2001 In the early chapters, Rebecca explores anthropological research regarding the role of bipedalism in the...
Story Idea: Life Understanding vs Dementia
In this scenario, the more an aging man comes to grip with humanity, civilization, and himself, basically the more he focuses internally, the more people around him consider him demented. As his distinction between valuable and...
Paternalism is Everywhere!
Wikipedia defines paternalism as “Paternalism (or parentalism) is behavior, by a person, organization or state, which limits some person or group’s liberty or autonomy for that person’s or group’s own good.” I’m reading “Why Grow Up”...
Should Computer Programming Be Required in Schools?
The following is one of several rants I have on the topic of computer programming as a life skill vs a vocational skill. I love swimming upstream on this topic. An article in Quartz at http://qz.com/340551 ...
AI vs the Human Computer
“A more perfect analogy would be if you consider nuclear research, with its potential for a very dangerous weapon. Releasing the energy is easy; containing that energy safely is very difficult. And so I think the...