I seldom encounter a doc that I am compelled to share. This three page doc I have downloaded to preserve, printed it for Eloise to read, and am here posting it on my blog. I only did a quick read and didn’t follow the links. I have been aware of this important context for awhile,…

INTRODUCTION    Full essay: This essay explores a significant query: To what extent may our scientific knowledge of systems not containing humans (or involving direct human interference during the interval studied) NOT APPLY to our knowledge gained from the “scientific” study of systems with humans as primary components and/or participants? Here I offer, for consideration, four…

I live in Tucson, Arizona and will now be careful where I travel, or chose to move. We seem safe from most disasters; with some drought in the future  If I lived along the coast of the NW USA I would move away ASAP. At any time in the future there will be a gigantic…

PLEASE, if you have access to those working on the Bernie Sanders campaign, please get this suggestion to them. SUGGESTION: Run your presidential campaign as a formal Presidential Executive TEAM. This might insure VICTORY. Select your VP, cabinet members and other key presidential appointments NOW, and promote them as a well organized team, during your…

We are all in emotional/intuitive denial.  I am, in spades.  My daily life is in sharp contradiction to my forecasts and clear knowledge of what I should be doing. At 80 I get further and further away from actually realizing my coming death. I can’t act as if I was mortal. We should be acting…

An edited version of an email. Receiving a url link to a summary of a scientific paper was a very welcome shock.   [ THANKS, ALAN ]   I lack mental imagery in ALL sensory modes. At age 22 (now age 80)    I discovered my lack of visual imagery. As a budding scientist, I began to explore…

I must start with an BLAST of PRAISE for THE MOST STUPENDOUS proposal I have ever read. The proposal is formal and is being submitted for support, thus I cannot provide access to the text of the proposal at this time. Access to information on PLAST – Pattern Languages for Systemic Transformation can be found in their closed Facebook Group. Request…

  Powerful image.  Do we “really” know details about how the original builders/users of Stonehenge “thought” and “calculated”, to make these structures oriented to our solar system? What was their mind-set to make them so BIG?  “Gigantism” seemed to have been a common drive in antiquity (and today with our mania for growth). Did they…

Awesomely beautiful images of a star, our sun: Put aside your knowledge that the sun is hot – with associations of our being burned. These are the normal temps of the sun, and the processes that exist in these temp ranges. The nuclear fusion engine deep in a star is a “factory” producing atom of…