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OR you could just get a big honking diesel pump and be done with it.

@"Tinman1917" There are two kinds of property: personal property (your books, soup bowl, spoon, cell phone, four-poster bed with a large mirror mounte...

Very tall trees, sequoia or redwood, manage to lift a lot of water from their roots into their canopy. You might investigate how they do that. (It's c...

@"karl stone" Did I recommend this author, this book to you? Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation by James Howard ...

Indeed, but if we could build large solar plants in the ocean at the equator, why wouldn't we just run a wire from the complex and plug it into the el...

Take a larger view. in the years of WWII 1939-1945, horses were indispensable. Why? For one, they don't use oil. For two, they are strong. For three, ...

There was a thing on the BBC World Service last night about rhetoric. They were talking about rhetoric. They were using examples of up-to-the-minute r...

Apparently you're not that young, either -- Mr. Scarborough fair. And you're being very anachronistic: the heyday of maypoles didn't come close to Sim...

So, how bad was it where you live? What was it like? I've never seen a hurricane. Gales, once; tornadoes, one or twice; blizzards, numerous. Long hot ...

Yes, I am aware of that. The problem of population, 7-11 billion, is that it is up against an agricultural environment that will be deteriorating, eve...

So, the novel isn't eternal. The Elizabethans didn't write novels. Other forms had popular preeminence--verse and drama. What cultural forms will be m...

One major problem that is not amenable to a technical solution is population. Not if we want to remain civilized, anyway. 7 billion plus people have t...

Maybe that would work. If the framework on which the solar panels were mounted were sufficiently strong and rigid, it could probably be submerged with...

Hmmm, Odd. If survival is the goal, and there is a real threat to survival, then why wouldn't an all-out effect be the way to go? Throughout American ...

If Karl's posts can't make it through the spam filter, then there is something wrong with the filter.

That is, of course, the precise problem. And we don't sufficiently understand or maybe appreciate the contribution of the common good to our own good....

According to the latest climate report from the UN, we have even less time to do something "to save the world" than we thought: 12 years... Of course ...

"Time is money" speaks of the urgency of crass money-making. Better that we eschew that sort of urgency and "take our time". For one thing, the existe...

Many people wear masks; they have a cabinet of masks. But not everyone does. To a large extent, I do not. I tend to be a "what you see is what you get...

Oh, no; that won't work out well.

I am not still grieving. One never forgets the loved one, but one does adjust and become accustomed to their absence. It just takes time. At first, it...

Judge for yourself. Here's a PDF copy of the book. FREE!!! https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Freud/Dreams/dreams.pdf

It's been a very long time since I read Freud. However, if you think psychoanalysis is still kicking (I agree, it is) then this would seem like a good...

Because everybody else was already taken.

Never mind about free will and determinism. The relevant question is: Who controls the money and what do they want to spend it on? You know that wealt...

If digs are being gotten, in my case it's "left" on "left". I don't think the problem highlighted by this hoax is a left/right issue. Good, solid publ...

Of course, scholars across all fields need to apprehend the scientific method--if for no other reason that they are educated people and science and th...

Freud was big on dreams, of course; he thought they were the royal road into the subconscious mind. But psychoanalysis isn't the dominant strain in ps...

Apparently.

I understood you the first time, and the 2 dreams I mentioned were precisely what you described, "that can be reflective of another possible world you...

Au contraire. Given the endless and thankless effort which birds must expend on their instinctive egg-hatching natalism and olympic level migrations t...

I had a precisely 2 dreams which I have not forgotten in roughly 50 years which concerned "possible worlds" -- alternative routes that I could take. S...

tell us more about the experience. What religious tradition beckoned to you?

Some small god of a rock speaking to paw was the result of hallucinations caused by paw's promiscuous nibbling on plants in the forest. The hallucinat...

I'm only regressing back to when religion started -- that day paw said, "You know... there's something fishy about that rock." Days later... "Hey kid,...

"Belief in God" is not invariably the product of child rearing practices, but it usually is. Parents teach religion to their children. That is where a...

One would think so. But... no. For one thing, the identity departments are not sciences, and they don't aspire to science. They are appropriately situ...

Then there is the academic journal publishing business--another can of worms. Journals will get published if there are buyers. Given the publish-or-pe...

As editor of the old site, you were evaluating submissions from left field, right field, center field, back field, the stands, and the parking lot beh...

Weinstein is a cause célèbre, and so is Kavanaugh. But the thing is, very ordinary people are fairly routinely fired because of accusations which are ...

Did you understand it? The authors of the hoax hailed from the left, not the right. None of them are members of the power elite.

Indeed. But there was a purpose behind the mockery, the pious fraud. Expose the vacancy in these fields. The insubstantiality of these fields has hist...

The Three Deflaters of Academic Fluffo: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/10/05/arts/05fakepapers-1-print/merlin_144816147_43ed1792-6f1c-486c-9203-...

Ranger, are you involved in an ugly paternity fight? The connection between sperm, egg, fatherhood, and motherhood has been firmly established. Contro...

Except that you can let go; delete your accounts. You will survive and continue to flourish. People who delete their social media accounts don't shriv...

It might galvanize the True Blues to vote; let us hope. However, the Raging Reds are also galvanized by Ford's testimony and Kavanaugh's heated denial...

your explanation is clear and understandable, and therefore compelling. Thank you.

If the net force acting on the ball bearing was zero, why would the ball move? On the other hand, can a ball sit on another ball of approximately the ...

I like this better than your ball bearing: https://image.redbull.com/rbcom/010/2015-03-10/1331710358143_2/0010/1/1050/700/1/big-unbalanced-rocks.jpg O...

Look, Ranger, if everyone is having sex in this orgy, THEN SOMEBODY IS GETTING MY SHARE! Please send details about where this big orgy is immediately....