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natator88 (60)in #fiction • 7 years ago
ALTERNATIVE FUTURE HISTORY: CUBAN DEMOCRACY
Margaret Trudeau, mother of Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada, and wife to Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada, visited Cuba in 1971. Justin Trudeau was…
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natator88 (60)in #olympics • 7 years ago
ART PERSONIFIED - OLYMPICS
Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot of Germany just captured the gold medal at the PyeongChang Winter 2018 Olympics. Watching their free skate performance made me think: art…
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natator88 (60)in #news • 7 years ago
The Most Heartwarming Headline You'll See Maybe Ever
South Korea Asks UN for Permission to Let North Korean Official Attend Olympics I sometimes sit and ponder how North Korea will lift itself from its morass. Lately, it seems…
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natator88 (60)in #ecology • 7 years ago
Suicidal Species and the Complexity of Nature
Suicidal Species Are (nonhuman) species suicidal by nature? That is, will they consume prey until there is no prey left, thereby unintentionally committing suicide? An…
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natator88 (60)in #environmentalism • 7 years ago
Make America Green Again
The Sierra Club just sent a sticker in the mail: Make America Green Again. I'm going to use this sticker, and enjoy using it, even though it is anathema to their mission.…
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natator88 (60)in #ecology • 7 years ago
A Libertarian and Epistemocratic View of Ecology
What do the primacy of the individual and a recognition of the unknowable have to do with ecology? Let us rewind time back to 1798 and a chap called Malthus, who proposed a…
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natator88 (60)in #nature • 7 years ago
Discordant Harmonies - Daniel B. Botkin
Is nature intrinsically harmonious or inharmonious? Mainstream ecologists would probably reply, "Harmonious, of course. Everything is interconnected in a beautiful web of…
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natator88 (60)in #life • 7 years ago
Maximize the Serendipity Around You
Nassim Taleb is full of one-liners good for maxims, mottoes, and mantras. Just read his book "The Bed of Procrustes." This particular advice, however, comes from his book "The…
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natator88 (60)in #photography • 7 years ago
Winter Beauty
My Mom is an excellent photographer. She shot this pine cone during Golden Light, an hour after sunrise or sunset. I was lucky enough to be raised by two generations of…
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natator88 (60)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
Why I Hope Bitcoin Keeps Dropping
At the beginning of this year, I had about enough cryptocurrency here on steemit to buy one Bitcoin. But I didn't, because I'm not a very decisive person. Now, I'm kicking…
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natator88 (60)in #cognitive-biases • 7 years ago
AI Fears Overhyped
Every time I read one of Bill Gates' injunctions against AI, or Elon Musk's warnings against it, I don't feel afraid. After all, as one of my hyper-intelligent friends says…
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natator88 (60)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
WESTERN CIVILIZATION'S THREE WORLDVIEWS
Traditionalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism: which will win out in the end? "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." - Louis Brandeis. It will cleanse all bad ideas from our…
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natator88 (60)in #news • 7 years ago
CAN WE LEARN ANYTHING FROM THE CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES?
Yes, we can. Specifically: Nature is more powerful than we are We need more prescribed burns We need to change our attitudes to wildfire control…
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natator88 (60)in #science • 7 years ago
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DON'T KNOW AND WE CAN'T PREDICT IT
MULTIPLICATIVE DIFFICULTY HYPOTHESIS How can we predict things? What does trying to predict the 25th impact of a billiard ball tell us about the nature of the universe and…
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natator88 (60)in #contest • 7 years ago
MEME CONTEST- YOU ARE WHAT YOU READ
Earn SBD! Have fun! Be creative! I'm reopening my Meme Contest , since I didn't get any entrants last time. Same rules as before, except the deadline is Friday…
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natator88 (60)in #science • 7 years ago
BRAINS ARE ANTICIPATION MACHINES
HYPOTHESIS Why do we predict the future? Why do we anticipate? What is the evolutionary foundation for this mechanism? According to Daniel Dennett, it is because it is…
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natator88 (60)in #society • 7 years ago
CHARACTER VS DIVERSITY
THE HYPOTHESIS I went to givewell.org to search for Property and Environment Research Council, a company I want to work for. Their search engine is down, but I noticed a…
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natator88 (60)in #life • 7 years ago
HORSE FEATHERS EVERYWHERE
Have you ever gotten something in your mind and started seeing it everywhere? Probably, because this is a version of synchronicity , or perhaps confirmation bias . Well…
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natator88 (60)in #environmentalism • 7 years ago
WHY WAS THE FROG INCORRECT? IT JUMPED TO THE WRONG CONCLUSION.
What do Dusky Gopher Frogs and property rights have in common? I wish I could think of a punchline, but neither the environment nor property rights are a joke. A Dusky…
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natator88 (60)in #nature • 7 years ago
How to Hold a Frog
I am quite the herpetology (amphibians and reptiles) freak, and I enjoy spreading my passion to others. This summer, I worked with 2 species of birds, which although are…
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