“adapt or die” –unknown Take climate change, for example. To some extent, it doesn’t matter what the cause is. The facts are well established. What are we going to do about it? Adapt or die, some say. But to do nothing about it, to act as a simple animal, to not use all…
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Spheres and parallel lines
A popular idea in popular books on physics and math is to illustrate the failure of Euclidean geometry on the surface of a sphere. Parallel lines do intersect! Well, that’s being loose with definitions and examples. Meridian lines of longitude are tangentially parallel at the equator and converge at the poles. Why are those considered…
This post is false
I’m reading “The Universe and the Teacup” and am reconsidering thoughts I previously had in mathematics. One example is the popular idea that there’s something contradictory about the following statement. This sentence is false. When I was young, I simply accepted this logic of this, without thinking more deeply about it. Now I see the…
Which party am I in?
I’ve been becoming more interested in the #pirateparty here in the USA. There are a handful of active chapters, but none in the part of the country where I live. I with there was more going on. One observation I have is that other political parties are not aware of the compromise they make to…
Still Not Optimistic
I am reading a biography of Ronald Reagan (“Sleepwalking Through History” by Haynes Johnson). Donald Trump is pictured in the book and also described as a symbol of the Reagan years product of self-promoting greed, over-hyped success, and accumulation and flaunt of wealth. Inaugural balls and subsequent events gave the rich and famous ample opportunity…