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strato from one of your links The anomaly is strongest in the North Atlantic, where Brian McNoldy, a climatologist at the University of Miami, calculated the deviation from statistical averages as a […]

alan #493 that is good news but i heard most of this interview between piers morgan and eric weinstein in which they talked existential threats they talked of nuclear war and artificial intelligence but no […]

many thanks cairsley for that thoughtful response i will seek out that loeb latin/english version even before i finish the melville translation i love the way lucretius invokes the gods without actually believing in them

cairsley #50 In his great poem, which I too regularly dip into just for the pleasure of it, the natural world is presented as naturally intelligible. might i ask what translation do you dip into? or do you read […]

phil #42 I also hate the stultifying idea of the Two Cultures – arts and sciences – supposedly dividing us. that holmes quote so apt i’m still reading aloud a few pages a day on the nature of things by luc […]

michael 100 fine poetic science writing from huxley must read that ida tarbell book about esso i did read some time ago   titan the biography of john d by ron chernow the early days of fossil fuel fascism

laurie b  #180 Any priest  in full regalia would’ve mingled well amongst our mourners including the Pope with his gorgeous red Prada slippers. the cathaholic cathedral catwalk you still have that sting laurie b

marco 486 great links Drivers of overshoot behaviour the word drivers is most appropriate throughout the paper you linked Cars were no longer being sold based on their functional superiority (i.e. space, speed, […]

phil and michael i am reading lucretius’ the nature of things given that he was first century bc he has a semi modern materialist view of things as you both no doubt know he keeps repeating in book 1 as far as […]

strato 482/3 and 484 yes two fairly different perspectives in those articles first the 484 link… It’s positive! (and i have to deal with it! Another crisis of naïve credulity, by the looks.) the video of yo […]

michael 100 Having recently read Robert Sapolsky’s Determined: a science of life without free will, I found myself watching for clues about Hakeem Olusseyi’s behavior from his childhood to his ultimate succe […]

new word? emuskulation At the core of Elon Musk’s empire is Tesla, which makes electric vehicles. But he has turned his recent acquisition Twitter (now X, soon to be Ex) into an intensely hostile place for e […]

great review of detemined michael Sapolsky explains in detail, too much detail I think, the basis for contrary opinion. the book does feel like sam harris’s views much expanded with up to date science […]

strato #83 I have worked in factories. Never underestimate the practical intelligence of the good worker. They problem solve and do everything. They don’t need to be surveilled. They have an innate attitude to m […]

michael 100 finished determined yesterday and really looking forward to your review

talked to a fellow on my walk yesterday his comment on the middle east mess? tribalism

robert sapolsky uses this religion tree in his determined book to see the ‘hairy’ leafy outer layer magnified as in this link   is mind blowing

laurieb #470 from climate thread Shit definitely does happen but what happens in Israel/Palestine is very calculated. It’s one big land grab enabled by big Daddy USA with all our gifts of money and military h […]