In the last 10 years I've read more and better books than I had previously read in 20 years. Time, at last. And Amazon + the iPad. I like books that c...
After driving internet innovation for 20 to 30 years, being ubiquitous from the get go, and making money all these years, how are they still the faste...
I would suffer traumatic brain injury if the internet crashed. Really. One of the reasons my mind appears to still be functioning is that Google searc...
in third-rate sci-fi novels, when something happens to disrupt society, people promptly turn to looting, riot, vigilante reprisals for current, recent...
They probably don't feel physically like age 25. When I say I feel young, I mean mentally, but what do I mean by that? Active curiosity good memory ab...
It's a very small number--well below 1%. "according to the U.S. Census Special Report on Centenarians, in 2010, there were 53,364 centenarians in the ...
Do Gentlemen quote themselves? Like @"T Clark", I am not a gentleman. I try not to be simply awful and often succeed, but with less success than the p...
A biologist buddy of mine (we were roommates back in college) drove up to Hawk Ridge north of Duluth a week ago to photograph a large migration of haw...
Oh, you know -- frailty, disease, failing senses, incontinence, senility, and with any luck death, sooner rather than later if everything is going hay...
You could go outside and run, I suppose, even in the Moscow winter. I used to run in the winter, even in very cold temps; I liked it. But in Moscow, P...
This ad from the plastics industry was in today's Washington Post https://64.media.tumblr.com/ba7f56a7e6e6665c5ab866bb2da6eaf5/d4987d49ae71890d-3c/s12...
The link is full of good advice. Thanks. Bottled water was uncommon 40 years ago. Bottling companies created a new product market. Where once there we...
Hormone disruption is a problem of not-entirely-understood dimensions. Some plastics disrupt hormones, as do other types of chemicals such as some her...
I doubt if one can avoid ingesting micro plastics which seem to be ubiquitous. We can, though, help reduce the amount of micro/nano plastics being pro...
I might have misunderstood. Perhaps the spatulas were used to scoop baby poop off the diaper and into a lab vessel. Well, one still should use a quali...
From the linked article... See, that's the problem: cheap goods. Spatula City™ carries nothing but the finest rubber goods, totally free of poisonous ...
You're joking. a little. yes, there are bacteria which can be induced to eat plastic, but a. are they salt-water bacteria? b. can they start on solid ...
These sorts of traits are not sufficiently bad to merit the "evil" label. How about... pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth? If humans...
Very good point. Hunter / gatherer methods worked for what... 200,000 years? Agricultural-based societies did OK for what... 10,000 years? industrial-...
Absolutely. But the task of converting a world economy to a low-greenhouse gas regime is massive to the nth degree, even if the fossil fuel industry w...
In some (many?) cases ideology came first. An example: There is this elderly woman I have known for a long time who refuses to get vaccinated for Covi...
It's not a theory I accept or find of much use. The process of getting from wild plants that bore edible seeds (like the various grasses)--corn, wheat...
We do not know why hunter-gatherer people, who had been doing reasonably well hunting game and gathering roots, nuts, and berries, decided to pursue t...
That doesn't mean the plants will stop burning coal. And of course China is not suspending its own coal plant building program. it is, as you noted, s...
Very good point about school-of-music recitals. Other sources are small community orchestras and church-sponsored performances of secular music. Costs...
That's why it is highly desirable for people to -- at least occasionally -- attend live performances. The live performance does not have to be up to C...
Is there such a thing as "impure evil" in contrast to "pure evil"? What is "pure" about "evil"? What makes a person "good" and what makes a person "ev...
No, because your game is rigged in favor of very depressing conclusions: On previous occasions I've acknowledged that your anti-natalist view of the w...
A forced situation would be if a benevolent villain pointed a loaded gun at your head and announced, "No more antinatalist threads from you until afte...
Probably not that much as academic philosophers. What they could do is join in efforts to solve / prevent / stop / reduce... urgent global matters. Pr...
The value of gold is determined by the demand (people like gold, it's a useful metal) and the supply (it's not easy to extract). The same goes for por...
I would not presume to criticize any of the 'great philosophers'. Plato was no doubt an outstanding individual amongst other remarkable men. The long-...
Did you free yourself from your shackles? If so, how did you do it? If not, what seems to prevent you from unshackling yourself? But to back up, is Pl...
No. No moderator should ever be mentioned in the same sentence as Jesus or God. Probably not even in the same book. Just not a good influence on any o...
God does not usually personally perform sperm donation, even though he would presumably have an infinite supply. The immaculate conception concerns th...
It's "Hay sous" because of the way the romance (Roman) languages (including Spanish) treat vowels. English dropped the romantic vowel pronunciation pa...
We have been using the long-i pronunciation for hundred of years. Why? Because languages change, and English went through a big change around 1300 - 1...
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