This really is a sad commentary on white “civilization” here in the U.S. Elsewhere in America, we have the situation described below. I’m not a religious fellow, but do you know what I’d do if the Pope asked me to …
Category: Sustainability
America of Yesteryear
“Reusing everything was a way of life.” So was taking care of one another, behaving with kindness and decency.
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A Message To America From Mid-19th Century Russia
Leo Tolstoy wrote: When I read your letter it seemed to me impossible that I could send any message to the American people. But thinking over at night, it came to me that, if I had to address the American …
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Historical Metaphor for Mask-Wearing
Yes, but that was before–75 years before–a) our educational system had failed, b) we had developed the means to mass disseminate complete, anti-scientific garbage, and c) levels of greed and selfishness had risen to a point that the world had …
Rights and Obligations
I loved this quote when I first came upon it many years ago, long before COVID-19. Now it has a much more powerful meaning that no one at the time would have considered possible, i.e., that more than 20% of …
COVID-19 Carries With It Some Happy Accidents
As we know, it’s mainly the anti-vaxxers who are dropping like flies from COVID-19. As indicted at left, there are a few other pieces of irony that work in our favor as well.
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QAnon on Music
A reader sent this to me, apparently as an example of how oppressive various secret governments and private organizations are. There is not a “frequency of music.” On a standard 88-key piano, for instance, there are frequencies (called “pitches“) that …
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Cooperation Is an Unsung Hero
Here’s yet one more example of cooperation in nature. From the BBC: Ants communicate using signals with their legs and use their antennae to sense different chemicals that other ants lay on the ground called pheromones. How they do a certain …
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EU to Require Smartphone Industry to Adopt a Uniform Charging Cord for Mobile Devices
So good to see this. Think of all the charging cords you’ve been forced to buy over the years, and all the materials that were extracted from the Earth to manufacture them. Great move in the direction of sustainable electronics, …
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Discussion With an Anti-Vaxxer
An acquaintance sent me the meme here. It IS true that vaccinated people, the majority of Americans, are angry with the conspiracy theorists/QAnoners who are, because of their ignorance, perpetuating this disease. Have you ever spoken with a doctor on …
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