We’re surrounded by the words of human history’s greatest minds, many of whom seem to be reminding us of the jeopardy in which we find ourselves today. After the president of the United States who was elected in 2016 lost …
Category: Sustainability
Next Gen Paper?
Is it possible to make paper products from recycled stone? Of course. We have the technology at this point to do all kinds of things never dreamed of before. We can gather up distributor caps from old Fords and reprocess …
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Ignoring Reality
Aldous Huxley is not the only author/philosopher to warn our society not to avoid dealing with whatever harsh truths we may encounter. To what does this concept best apply in today’s world? Well, for one, our educational standards continue to …
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Campbell’s Soup and Gay Pride
I can’t guarantee this is real, but it’s funny, that’s for sure.
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Why All the Aggression, America?
Here’s another example of how aggressively meat-eaters deal with vegans. Is this really necessary? Deer-hunters who eat what they kill and thin a herd that would ultimately starve to death are 100% fine with any sane person, regardless of their …
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Craving a Personal Peace?
FWIW, I don’t feel this way at all. With Trumpism on the rise, we live in a time of great peril, not only for the United States, but for the entire planet. If this goes the wrong way, we have …
Our Earth Is an Insignificant Dot in Space
The caption: The Earth and Moon as seen by the Cassini probe from Saturn’s orbit. All of humanity in one small dot in space. A reminder of what Carl Sagan said about a photo of Earth from space he called …
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Americans Like to Think of Their Country as Free, But Get This
In 2023, the United States received an 83 on a scale from 0 to 100 on the Freedom Awards, from an organization called “FreedomHouse.” That placed us #17 of the 200+ sovereign nations on Earth. Not bad, but what would …
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Note on Poor Grammar
I listened to a Ted Talk the other day that was given by a linguist and university professor of English, whose point was that the language is always changing, and that we shouldn’t be so rigid in our interpretation of …
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No Rule Against It, But ….
Nobody’s saying you can’t process avocado pits into a replacement for plastic to be used in single-use cutlery, whose market size was $10.58 billion in 2022, and building at 4.8% CAGR. But I would be stunned to learn that this …
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