Image source: CSO online – Swatting Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Climate Change, Existentialism, Fascism, Star Trek Bedlam is a scene of madness, chaos, or great confusion. The term bedlam comes from the name of a hospital in London, “Saint Mary of Bethlehem,” which was devoted to treating the mentally ill in the 1400s. Over time, the pronunciation ofContinue reading “Bedlam, Swatting, Terrorism…”
Category Archives: Existentialism
Curated, Created Realities…
Image source: Facebook meme Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Climate Change, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism What is lost in the above Facebook meme: 5:00 – 5:30 pm was typically your local news. 6:00 – 6:30 pm, before “Bewitched,” was your international news, the Walter Cronkites, Mike Wallaces, and Harry Reasoner’s time to scare the living crapContinue reading “Curated, Created Realities…”
Births, Stats, Mathematics…
Source: Brookings Institution Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism Cate Cox and Brittany Watts: Their last names rhyme, but their circumstances couldn’t be more diametrically different from one another. Cate Cox is a married suburban mother with two children. She previously lived in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, but due to her condition,Continue reading “Births, Stats, Mathematics…”
The Red Road…
Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism I can hear an irritated counterthrust already. The president has not driven the United States into a recession during his almost seven years in office. Unemployment stands at a respectable 4.6 percent. Well, fine. But the other side of the ledger groans with distress: a tax codeContinue reading “The Red Road…”
Power and Resources…
French economist Thomas Piketty compares the US economy to Europe in the Gilded Age. Oregon Live, 2014 Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Climate Change, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism Thomas Piketty wrote “Capital in the 21st Century” in 2013 centered on the wealth inequality we can see all around us. I can see more house-less citizens onContinue reading “Power and Resources…”
Oxymoron…
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight at a news conference in January 2023. From left, Siegfried Hecker, Daniel Holz, Sharon Squassoni, Mary Robinson and Elbegdorj Tsakhia (Photo credit: Patrick Semansky). Topics: Astrobiology, Civilization, Existentialism, Science Fiction, SETI, Space Exploration A few weeks ago, I posted “Wine of Consciousness”Continue reading “Oxymoron…”
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once…
The Flood by Antonio Marziale Carracci Topics: Civilization, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Existentialism, Global Warming Another week, another catastrophic, record-setting, history-making flood, this time in Kentucky. Preliminary assessments indicate rainfall in Graves County last week likely set a new record for most precipitation in a 24-hour period, with 11.28 inches of rain. This would make it yetContinue reading “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once…”
The Wine of Consciousness…
Credit: Fanatic Studio/Gary Waters/Getty Images Topics: Education, Existentialism, Philosophy, Physics Physicists and philosophers recently met to debate a theory of consciousness called panpsychism. More than 400 years ago, Galileo showed that many everyday phenomena—such as a ball rolling down an incline or a chandelier gently swinging from a church ceiling—obey precise mathematical laws. For thisContinue reading “The Wine of Consciousness…”
Pattern Recognition…
“Last Battlefield,” 47 years later, StarTrek.com, January 10, 2016 Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Existentialism, Fascism, Human Rights, Star Trek The Cleve Cartmill affair, source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_(science_fiction_story) I admit I had heard of this before, but I didn’t know the government gave it his name. It figures because Cleve was clever (see what I did there?)Continue reading “Pattern Recognition…”
Peace…
Topics: Existentialism, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Peace Prize Press release. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. Fri. 6 Oct 2023. < https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2023/press-release/ > Narges Mohammadi is a woman, a human rights advocate, and a freedom fighter. Her brave struggle for freedom of expression and the right to independence has come with tremendous personal costs. Altogether, theContinue reading “Peace…”
Physics and Nano 