Comet NEOWISE visible above the NW horizon of central Oregon, just passing by the Sun. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a view like that. Comet NEOWISE was just too faint where Continue Reading →
Lake Superior-no salt added, shark-free, along the North Shore NW of Duluth MN OK so I wasn’t gonna do any research on a topic, just an impromptu essay for the Continue Reading →
Well, here’s the YouTube channel banner graphics I just received yesterday. A take-off on the Apollo 8 photo (still copyrighted, I believe), that says what I want to express at Continue Reading →
This essay is about what do we do with our consciousness, every waking minute of thought: model the future and plan behaviors in the world that we consider doing the Continue Reading →
Some folks, how ’bout most folks, just don’t like the idea of materialism. “There must be something more”, many feel, and it is non-material, made of the spirit, in the Continue Reading →
The “Defenders of the New Enlightenment” (D.O.N.E.) YouTube channel of science and secular podcasts hosted by yours truly, Dr.Z, the Unbelieving Scum, is FINALLY in the works. I’m about a Continue Reading →
My new secular group, the McHenry County Freethinkers and Humanists, but 9 months old now, had a booth at the McHenry County Fair 2 weeks ago in my hometown of Continue Reading →
I’ve been reading the animal behavior literature for a few decades now. There is some excellent work by dozens of researchers exploring how animals behave and learn and remember and Continue Reading →
If you wiki the term “concept”, you can read for 1/2 hour on the different attempts at definitions of what a concept is: an idea, a mental representation, an abstraction… Continue Reading →
I coined the term “cultural inertia” some time ago to describe the phenomenon that some ideas just hang around if widely-held, if they are the majority view, and the average Continue Reading →
