Author Archives: Mark R. Kelly

LQCs: Wrong About Everything

Posted on Thursday 23 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Texas, climate change, gays, guns, Christians

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Ed Yong’s New Book

Posted on Tuesday 21 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Another quick post. Ed Yong, the science writer, has a new book out today — in fact my copy is running late, and will be delivered tomorrow — called An Immense World — about how animals perceive the world much … Continue reading →

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Port of Oakland

Posted on Monday 20 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

We did a walk yesterday along a path by the Port of Oakland, along the backside of all those huge gantries that are seen from all across the bay, but especially from the Bay Bridge. (Expand the pic, and you … Continue reading →

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More Thinking about Women and Men

Posted on Sunday 19 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

To follow up on yesterday’s post, two items today.

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Proper Ways of Thinking: Women Without Men

Posted on Saturday 18 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

NYT, Pamela Paul, 21 June 2022: She Wrote a Dystopian Novel. What Happened Next Was Pretty Dystopian.

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LQCs: “Born This Way” Doesn’t Matter

Posted on Friday 17 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s an article that makes good points about the changing demographics of gays and lesbians and transgenders, but for me misses the key reason that the “born this way” argument is irrelevant. Salon, Julia Serano, 17 Jun 2022: It’s time … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Trek v. Handmaids

Posted on Thursday 16 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

There’s a graphic meme going around on Facebook — no, of *course* I can’t find it now, or a link to it — that compares America’s possible future as being Star Trek’s or The Handmaid’s Tale‘s. The former’s vision of … Continue reading →

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Home

Posted on Wednesday 15 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. Robert Frost

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Epistemology: What Does Anyone Actually “Know”?

Posted on Tuesday 14 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate, Ben Mathis-Lilley, 10 Jun 2022: Does Donald Trump Really “Know” Anything?.

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Aesthetics: Color Theory: 60:30:10

Posted on Monday 13 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s another item I saw just recently, which shares with the previous post how a design principle can be crystalized in numbers. Via Boing Boing, Devin Nealy, 31 May 2022: The 60-30-10 percent rule of color

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