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Category Archives: What we know
Last Chance to Kill Anti-Vaccine Bills
From: Kiely <kiely> Date: Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:30 PM Subject: Last Chance to Kill Anti-Vaccine Bills To: Danny Choriki <danny> Before Transmittal View this email in your browser Danny, HB715 and SB450 were voted out of their committees … Continue reading
Samuel Clements for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The book was published in the United States in February of 1885. Samuel Clements is a candidate for humanist of the month for February for the 2016 calendar. The following is from Huckleberry Finn. It is when Huck is thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Humanist Values, Reviews
Tagged humanist-calendar, Samuel Clements, slavery
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November 16, 2013; Skepticon 6 is underway in Missouri
Found out earlier this week that Skepticon 6 is happening this weekend in Missouri. They are live streaming at http://skepticon.org/. The schedule is at http://skepticon.org/schedule/. Looks like a fun event. Road trip next year?
Recommendation for “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action” by Simon Sinek
Just spent an interesting hour listening to Simon Sinek about “why” matters. (He blogs at http://www.startwithwhy.com/.) It was a combination of existentialism and self-actualization. The basic concept is that most of us operate in the world of “what” or “how”, … Continue reading
Posted in Coping with Change, Reviews, Startups
Tagged follow your bliss, leadership, Thousand True Fans, vision
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Shoes to replace shoes: the barefoot running movement
We have traveled an interesting technological circle in my adult life. When I started running in junior high school, we wore plain canvas shoes. Like the Converse shoes that are now retro-hip. By the mid to late 1970’s, a technology … Continue reading
Snow days, climate change and second order effects
It is a snow day in New York City. Again. I am enjoying it but I did grow up in Montana. This one is a little closer to what I would call a snow day, i.e. a decent accumulation where … Continue reading
Life, Limits and You Are Here
(Dateline – Sol 3) One of my life changing moments was reading the book Limits to Growth (1972) when I was in high school. It wasn’t an “ah ha” moment like reading the Milgram experiments. It was, as later in life I learned … Continue reading