I found this article tremendously enlightening … … as to many things beside its ostensible subject.  The same principles as apply to...

Things you never think about. The most prominent feature of life for me, this past month, has been that I appear to have developed...

Again we underestimate the ancients. Millenia before the famous work of Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) with peas, human beings were engaged...

The black male teacher shortage: If there is no solution, is there, in fact, a problem? In the 1950s and 1960s, when schools were first...

Horrors! They were straight, white, cis, bearded MEN ? What is the world coming to? Mummification Was Not Meant for Body Preservation,...

How not to advertise. Steven Gundry, MD, made a name for himself in conventional medicine, and then either went whacko or became...

Chromosomes, not pronouns Transgenderism Related: Musth The Alphabet People Dad Takes His Son for a Manicure and Pedicure After His...

“They’re out there.” Continuing a theme from last week’s post : The conventional wisdom for most of my life has been this way.  After a...

“All our dreams were becoming nightmares.” Fort McHenry in Baltimore is historically significant, as the place where the bombardment of...

I categorically disapprove of hallucinogens. That said, this piece is pretty good. How to Predict the Future of Anything #Precognition...

Mean little critters Copied from here: https://www.businessinsider.com/surprise-as-gene-edited-hamsters-turn-hyper-aggressive-new-study-2...

THE WAY OF PEACE ← 6. Sales pitch Home  8. Heart and soul  → Hold to God’s unchanging hand. When not at sea, a boat is normally tied, or...

THE WAY OF PEACE ← Home → Everyone’s this way a little bit. It’s adaptative to check the door two or three times to be sure it’s locked....

THE WAY OF PEACE ← Home → “Are you abnormal?” Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS), like Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), is a...

THE WAY OF PEACE ← 7. Mooring oneself in What Is Home  10. Strategies  → “Purity of heart is to will one thing.”— Soren Kierkegaard This...

My latest distraction After a few years’ absence, David Wong is back, advertising intensely on FaceBook.  For years, he was marketing (...

Science meets the spooky. Since we reverted to Standard Time, I have routinely had two smoke breaks daily after dark; and since we’ve...

I was woefully unprepared for college … … and I don’t want the same to be true for anyone else. I am composing this in some haste, which...

Taking pleasure in things that are bad for you. Switched Related:  Fareed Zakaria | The Homeless Blogger Related: Your Body Doesn’t Lie:...

Birds of paradise.  Until roughly last year, I had no idea what they were.  Wikipedia says: “The birds-of-paradise are members of the ...