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Don’t lose that idea.
Don’t lose that idea. In this post: Introspection that introduces the way I think about the place where ideas come from and what that has to do with Christmas trees. I guess a lot of people have forgotten the holidays but, as I first thought about this content while I was on vacation, I will…
Read MoreKFC and a bottle of Prosecco
Cultural identity and the ways in which we celebrate or not. Life goes fast and life goes slow, confusingly, both at the same time.
Read MoreHave we become a social media-centered society?
Have we become a social media-centered society? In this post: A very short post and several questions about modern society, the choices that we made to use the tools that we have at our disposal or become the servants of the tools we need to function in the 21st century. I have a question for…
Read MoreThe Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility and other things that I never think about
TThe Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility and other things that I never think about In this post: What is a fact without context, knowledge frameworks, and The Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility. Think about something that you never or almost never think about. Something neutral, not something dramatic or two charged with negative connotations, nothing…
Read MoreUni V: The way we are talking about morality and the guy who got eaten by the bear
Uni V: The way we are talking about morality and the guy who got eaten by the bear In this post: I discuss some of the things I learned or not in the first lecture of PHIL 181. I think around the box and question the methodology of the course as failing to reflect reality…
Read MoreWhere science and art openly hang out
Where science and art openly hangout In this post: Some Scanning Electron Micrographs (SEMs) from those bygone days in which I would loose myself into the tiny world that only electrons unaided could see. Isn’t it weird to be nostalgic about metallic and semiconducting electrodes? SEM stands for Scanning Electron Microscopy which is an imaging…
Read MoreCertificate in brewing, Leonardo da Vinci, PopPhil, and the scientific journal of booze
Uni IV: Certificate in brewing, Leonardo da Vinci, PopPhil, and the scientific journal of booze In this post: Let’s talk about getting certified in brewing and the bad habits of Leonardo da Vinci, two things that are not necessarily interconnected to each other or to my interest in pop philosophy but are nonetheless fun to…
Read MoreThe streets of London under a skyline of construction cranes
Español The streets of London under a skyline of construction cranes. In this post: Our staycation exploring the streets of London under the new shopping arcades and the skyline dotted with construction cranes. Life is getting interesting; I am not going to explain the many ways in which that is happening but I am swamped…
Read MoreTypewriters, short nails, and painful fingers are never good enough for teacher
Typewriters, short nails, and painful fingers are never good enough for teacher In this post: On this Friday afternoon when nothing special is happening, the sound of the keyboard as I searched for a story brought back memories of learning to type for the first time. Today is Friday, nothing special about that. It’s a…
Read MoreOne of those days and fond memories of Alaska
One of those days and fond memories of Alaska It appears to be one of those days in which I get lost in an ocean of noise. I am alone, abandoned by all my assumptions. Who am I? What am I? What can I do with this who and that what? I urged myself to…
Read MoreA vision, an ideal, Turf Management and Science, and a conversation a day after a chemistry exam
Español A vision, an ideal, Turf Management and Science, and a conversation a day after a chemistry exam In this post: This is the third part in the series exploring cool things that I didn’t know one could get a college degree in. In the first part I talked about Koestler Parapsychology Unity in the…
Read MoreI’m so happy I spent my life climbing trees
Español Uni II: I’m so Happy I spent my life climbing trees In this post: This is the second part of a four part series covering things that I didn’t know one could get a college degree on. If you enjoyed the previous post and are tempted by a career y parapsychology then you know…
Read MoreYou majored in what?
Español Uni I: You majored in what? In this post: Did you go to college? Do you ever wonder if you could have picked a more interesting or glamorous discipline than the one you majored in? And if you didn’t go to college because everything sounded so boring you didn’t see what was the point,…
Read MoreWorking on happiness
Working on happiness In this post: I share my views on happiness, as simple as that. Everybody has her own idea of what it is and what it does and how it comes about. I do too. Here you go. People think that happiness is something that comes to you in the form of lucky…
Read MoreWhat’s up?
Español What’s up? In this post I want to give my readers an update of what has been going on with me and with my website. I’ve been gone for a while. Gone from a particular place and gone from my blog and there are good reasons for that and several other things. You might…
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