Modern day hunter-gatherers from Southern Africa. An AEON article How Trance States Forged Human Society Through Transcendence explores the ideas of Robin Dunbar, a noted anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist with Continue Reading →
The physicist David Deutsch. I learn something each time I listen to this guy-its ridiculous. His writings and presentations really exemplify and explicate the SSP-Secular Scientific Perspective, especially with regards Continue Reading →
The End of Science (1996) -by the science journalist John Horgan. Mr. Horgan, reflecting on his controversial characterization of the state of modern science, 20 years later from its first Continue Reading →
The map above shows the US states color coded by COVID infection rate per 100,000 residents as of early March 2021. The darkest purple states: So. Dakota, No. Dakota, and Continue Reading →
I’ve blogged numerous times on the apparent inevitability of liberal progressive ideas eventually overcoming the undying resistance of Conservatism: here, Here, and HERE…and there are 1/2 dozen more blogs on Continue Reading →
Kids explore, Kids build, Kids figure out how stuff “works”. It’s built-in, innate. Nobody teaches them to zoom across the living room floor to get into…everything. And then start touching, Continue Reading →
Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen supporting the kids from Parkland pushing for gun control. Its an excellent commentary, 4 minutes, do watch it. It is rather refreshing to see another old Continue Reading →
Wounded Bull and Ice Age hunter with atl-atl (spear-thrower). From nearly 40,000 years ago to almost 10,000 BC, all across southern Europe in over 400 caves and rockshelters, Paleolithic Cave Continue Reading →
Once again, despite the insane Conservative backlash headed by Trump and his supporters, I am not only struck (and encouraged) by the modifying responses and outright defiant opposition by the Continue Reading →
Information Kills Religion. Yes it does. Science; modern knowledge, sweeps away the old myths, superstitions, repressions, and pessimism of religious thought. Normally, I would prepare one of these posts on Continue Reading →
