Progress is an idea that doesn’t match our actions or current understanding of the world. No one’s perfect, but some are lucky. They are born into a world they are well suited for. And if they could help it they’d maintain that world for their offspring. But, inevitably it Read more…
Well, shit. So after getting a teeny tiny bit of feedback about my last post I decided to try my hand at estimating the global carrying capacity K for humans. I decided to see if I could plug in numbers to the formula I supplied there. And for the record Read more…
Life is too short to get it right. We’re fallible. It’s often an accident if you do. And it’s relative. What’s “right” when, where, how, and why? Sometimes we Dawdlers say things in these episodes and I cringe because I am pretty sure there’s a decent answer to a question, Read more…
My wife, who is now a lawyer, was a national championship level parliamentary competitive debater in college. She tells me that her team had a saying for those moments when a debater slipped into some overzealous, perhaps even hysterical, argumentation: “There’s Dead Babies on the flow!” The ‘flow’ was the Read more…