Heading west on US Highway 56 across Kansas in June. People complain about boredom while slogging across Kansas in June, or any other…
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We are endowed with these marvelous brains that excel at everything from oboe-making to calculus to needle point to wind surfing, plus we invented…
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Intelligence tests are stupid because they determine only one sliver of the intelligence sphere, and the bit these tests measure are the very easiest…
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Thinking. It’s a messy process, this Thinking thing. It’s easy to get lost in the word forest. There are no trails, and it’s teeming…
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We generally devote our astounding global brain power to just getting our little selves through the little day, so any discussion of how we…
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Except you don’t “decide” or “plan” anything. Decisions and planning are functions of the mind, and the body processes all this information more or…
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Many of us, though, may weary of the rich lives we have the opportunity to claim, and sometimes envy other life forms.
The wolf, for…
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Here’s the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/magazine/evolution-gene-microbiology.html
It recounts how an ornery, indefatigable, iconoclastic, highly original rebel researcher, a guy named Carl Woese, made the case that (to put…
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How did this happen? How did nothing become something?
Well, every story contains the story of how it unspooled. Some stories-of-the-story can be so straightforward…
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Turns out that we and words, surprisingly, do share characteristics that shape our destiny:
1.] Words have a body and a space and a form…