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I’m a very different, and I hope interesting guy, I do believe that I’ve had some success in creating a formula that helps make sense of things — and it’s a democratic, open formula that allows each person to be their own social scientist in...
by leftcoast ron
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 03:03 PM PST
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This series was introduced three weeks ago with a piece titled, “Introduction to a “Big Picture” View that Might Help Human Civilization (and Our Democracy) Survive.” (Admittedly an extravagant claim, but one I’ve hoped people will check out before...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Oct 28, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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This piece is running as an op/ed in newspapers my very red congressional district. It’s an area in which the Bible is a major part of the culture. Hence, it’s beginning with a couple of important words from the Book of Genesis....
by AndySchmookler
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on Tue Oct 17, 2023 at 09:09 AM PDT
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Introduction: This essay is the first in a series titled A BETTER HUMAN STORY. “First,” that is, except for an Introductory essay published here a week ago: “Introduction to a ‘Big Picture’ View that Might Help Human Civilization (and American...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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This piece will appear as an op/ed in newspapers in the coming week. ************************************ There’s an idea that is essential to understanding how we come to be what we are today, as well as the challenge that we have to meet if humankind...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Sep 30, 2023 at 10:20 AM PDT
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A Mission: Over the past decade, I’ve posted almost a thousand essays here on Daily Kos. Almost all of them have dealt with the crisis in American politics unfolding in our times, often going into the detailed particulars of America’s ongoing political...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Oct 07, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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As well as being a biologist, I have tried to be an artist. Compared to many artists, past and present, my talents are meager, but I much appreciate the great talents of the present and past in all forms of artistic endeavors, including the visual...
by Desert Scientist
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on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 10:21 AM PST
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Global warming is Ocean warming. SLR — Sea Level Rise Climate change has come for Christmas this year as gifts for consumer purchases are being delayed at the Panama Canal due to a long-running drought during what should be one of the wettest nations'...
by Pakalolo
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 08:55 AM PDT
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Anyone attentive to our society in our times, or familiar with various historical cultures, should know that human sexuality – in addition to all the good it brings into people’s lives – has been beset by social tensions, cultural taboos, and personal...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Feb 25, 2023 at 08:48 AM PST
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I believe that water is the closest thing to a god we have here on earth. We are in awe of its power and majestic beauty. We are drawn to it as if it's a magical, healing force. We gestate in it, are made of it, and need to drink it to live. We are...
by Pakalolo
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on Fri Feb 03, 2023 at 06:25 AM PST
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When it comes to the human tendency to behave badly on impulse or habitual impulse, I’m interested in how economics, environment, biology, and so on, figure into it (less so social, religious or political, though: everyone else tracks those pretty...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Nov 26, 2022 at 04:30 PM PST
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The confounding and contradictory alliance that makes up the current GOP coalition (gun zealots, Christo-fascists, hate tribes, and corporate freeloaders) may at first seem a discrepant set of characters. They do not appear to have an organic...
by ignatzmouse
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on Fri Sep 30, 2022 at 02:03 PM PDT
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Is it hopeless to steer MDR back to what it was? With the exception of Dr. Jose Cervantes, a standout class act, having been taken by ambulance, I ended up in a place where patients in a waiting room seek out eye contact, so we can shake our heads at...
by Smartass 1st Class
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on Wed Sep 28, 2022 at 01:30 PM PDT
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First, let’s acknowledge and commemorate the great loss and tragedy of 9/11/2001 and subsequent responses. It is a day of great sorrow. One of my goals in life has been to do my tiny part to help the US overcome anger, senseless killing, and...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Sep 11, 2022 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Wildfires, heat waves, droughts, destructive floods, and intense storms are the more dramatic consequences of climate change and their frequency and destructiveness are increasing. But there are also less dramatic consequences of climate change...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Aug 28, 2022 at 02:15 PM PDT
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Viral video is reminder of the archaeological looting pipeline producing 'cool gifts' for Westerners On Thursday, I was doomscrolling Twitter when I came across a tweet of a video from Engineered Labs of someone casually breaking a 3,000-year-old piece of pottery from the Indus Valley Civilization. Among archeologists and historians, the Indus Valley...
by Matthew Braunginn
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on Fri May 13, 2022 at 01:05 PM PDT
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This is a very interesting read. At the rate humanity is burning our plant’s fuel, I doubt we will progress much further without engaging in better restraint. Because without the restraint, we will cause our own demise due to over burning our earth’s...
by friedbones
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on Wed Apr 20, 2022 at 11:29 AM PDT
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The Problem and the Solution Are Both on Display “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. In this Ukraine-Putin crisis, we can see both the ugly consequences of civilization’s long-running Anarchy in...
by AndySchmookler
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on Mon Mar 28, 2022 at 06:33 AM PDT
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. ISBN 978-0-374-15735-7 David Graeber & David Wengrow Subject Human history Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication date October 19, 2021 Pages 704 ISBN 978-0-374-15735-7 Website https://dawnofeverything.industries It isn’t every day you get...
by isafakir
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on Mon Jan 31, 2022 at 05:37 PM PST
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What follows is a transcript of a conversation I overheard in a bar restaurant in Marseilles, France, a while ago. Both the woman and the man looked to be in their twenties. She had a French-inflected British accent. He sounded Texan (but intelligent)....
by ShamballaJones
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on Sun Jan 02, 2022 at 12:57 PM PST
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