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-Benjamin Franklin
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Competition Among Sociopaths
I read a comment that ended with “Remember the system rejuvenates and perpetuates itself based on competition among the sociopaths; each is always attempting to “game” another and their cabal.” There is something vaguely reassuring in looking at politics as competition between sociopaths. Another comment, on a different article and website was “Refuse their vocab. Read more
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Daylight Savings Ends on Sunday
Turn back the clock! It’s that time of the year again. Today, the sun rose late, well after 8 am -nearly 8:30! It will set around a quarter after 6 pm. We will have less than ten hours of daylight. On Sunday, when Daylight Savings Ends and we turn our clocks back an hour, we Read more
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The Behavioral Immune System
This is a long read. The author, Norman Doidge, describes the behavioral immune system: “in humans (and other animals), any infection can trigger an archaic brain circuit in most of us called the behavioral immune system (BIS). It’s a circuit that is triggered when we sense we may be near a potential carrier of disease,… Read more
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This Time Last Year- A Pig in A Coat
Other things happened -the school went back to in-person learning- but the pigs, and the neighbor who took the very coat off of his back to warm an injured pig, were by far the most interesting thing of the week. Read more
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Shipping, Tariffs and Electric Cars
I started looking at electric cars when I was at SDSU – driving a Gem around Brookings was about 90% fun and only probably less than 10% car purchase interest. When I spotted a youtube video about buying the world’s cheapest car online from Alibaba . . . well, I have some experience in buying Read more
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Strong Winds
It’s that time of the year again- strong winds. What is wind? In essence, wind is the movement of air from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure. What can influence air pressure? Temperature, certainly. The little whirlwinds I wrote about last fall are heavily influenced by temperature. They start in areas that Read more
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