Ls&Cs: Scopes Coal Social Media Fasting and Prayer

Posted on Monday 4 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Southern resistance to vaccines, and the Southern inferiority complex (entailing the Scopes trial); Republican commitment to fossil fuels despite climate change; false claims via social media; fasting and prayer.

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Science Ls&Cs: Time for Critical Blue Ozone Fitness

Posted on Sunday 3 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

The unfittedness of the universe for life; languages that do or don’t have a word for the color blue; telescopes as time machines; how scientists solved the ozone layer; critical thinking.

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Links & Comments: Today’s Headlines; Other Recent Links

Posted on Friday 1 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

About our national decline; how vaccine mandates are mostly working; violence in support of Trump; skewed news coverage; and public resistance to a health mandate in 1847, about doctors’ washing hands.

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Links and Headlines: Dark Skies; Misinformation; Critical Thinking; Empathy; Headlines

Posted on Thursday 30 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

There have been a handful of SF novels over the years that include as breaks between the prose sets of futuristic news headlines, to indicate the state of the future world without having to explicate it in detail. Gunn’s The Listeners did this; I’m thinking John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar and The Shockwave Rider did this, though I haven’t looked closely at these books in years. (I’ll update/correct these comments as necessary.)

I’m thinking to refine some posts here simply to provide headlines that indicate the current zeitgeist, without needing explanation. But not for today, exactly.

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How to Read a Book

Posted on Wednesday 29 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I posted this on Fb last night, perhaps a bit intemperately and incompletely, upon publication of this book yesterday, Sept. 28th.

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L&Cs: Rhythm the Key to Everything?

Posted on Tuesday 28 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

What to make of this? (Link via Fb)

Timber’s Newsletter: Rhythm is the single most important avenue to greatness in everything humans do

Subtitled: “The best musicians, athletes, cooks, writers, and storytellers all have incredible rhythm”

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Status Today: Recovering Into the Twilight

Posted on Monday 27 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s a personal status post, about only me myself, with no links to or commentary about the outside world.

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Ls&Qs: Rationality and Fear

Posted on Sunday 26 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Two long quotes today, from opposite ends of the spectrum from rationality to fear.

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Ls&Cs: Interesting Times

Posted on Saturday 25 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

The latest on strategies to avoid long-term calamities, knowing of calamities and lying about them, the US compared to South America and Europe, and Americans’ grasp of reality.

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Ls&Cs: Computer world views; science fiction vs. fantasy

Posted on Friday 24 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

A couple non-political posts today.

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