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Body Log

July 7, 2022December 6, 2022

I missed my run on Tuesday and spent the rest of the week trying to catch up against commonly accepted running advice. I wound up

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Human Experience

If you want peace

May 11, 2022May 12, 2022

(image in the public domain, downloaded from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_VI#/media/File:Pius_XII_with_Monsignor_Montini.jpg) When Pope Paul VI opined “If you want peace, work for justice”, I am sure that he

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Human Experience Mind

What Is the Risk?

April 23, 2022April 23, 2022

As mask mandates are canceled, my wife and I are wondering just what is the real risk out there. The per 100,000 rates on the CDC do not tell me much. I wanted to know how these numbers compared with the U.S. significant health death rates due to heart disease, cancer, injuries, strokes, etc.

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Human Experience Mind Politics

Tragedy in the East II

April 6, 2022April 6, 2022

No one would have anticipated the startling stubborn resistance the Ukrainians put up to defend their country, belaying any argument that they are historically Russian. Equally stunning is the incompetence of the Russian military.

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Human Experience

Tragedy in the East

February 26, 2022March 7, 2022

3/7 I realized today that COVID and Ukraine are the defining moments for Gen Z as they grow into adults. Defining moments are always ones

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Human Experience Mind Social Media

americancanary.org

February 18, 2022February 18, 2022

Little thought gems from americancanary.org and my italicized replies.

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Human Experience Mind Politics

The Daily on 1/31/2022, Dr. Fauci

January 31, 2022February 2, 2022

Interesting exchange between Michael Barbaro and Dr. Anthony Fauci on  The Daily, Jan. 31, 2022: Michael Barbaro: “Aren’t the covid cautious fighting their own war

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Shoveling Snow is Exercise Too

January 18, 2022January 18, 2022

Before After

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Outdoors

January 16, 2022January 17, 2022

For me, the transformation began at 49, when I started my quest for that first marathon. To some extent, it was a rebirth or a

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Human Experience

2021 Solstice

December 27, 2021December 27, 2021

Our daughter and son-in-law had a luncheon with us on the 25th. My wife and I are not Christians, so the holiday trappings have only

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Human Experience Mind Running

2021

November 16, 2021

2021 was not the best of years for me. During the 2020 lockdown, I flourished using the time off to work out and study data

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Human Experience Mind Nutrition

October 30, 2021 A Day in the Life

November 4, 2021November 7, 2021

We decided to memorialize the meals of Saturday, October 30, 2021, since it began with a breakfast that is unusual for us.

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Human Experience

Southward Equinox

September 25, 2021September 27, 2021

One quarter remains.

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Human Experience

Sitting Ducks

August 25, 2021September 22, 2021

Today at work I received an all-hands message asking for volunteers to staff a call center to contact Americans stranded in Afghanistan and provide them

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Human Experience Running Strength Training

Intensity

August 17, 2021August 20, 2021

Dopamine is evolution’s reward system for behaviors that increased the reproductive success of hunter-gatherers, long-distance hunting and gathering, eating high calories foods, and sex. Today we no longer persistence hunt, but regular exercisers enjoy the rewards of the long hunt.

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Human Experience Mind Nature Philosophy

Dukkha and God

February 19, 2021August 17, 2021

I can’t believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to me to be too local, too provincial.

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Human Experience Mind

Delta

August 1, 2021August 17, 2021

It is painfully obvious to anyone with a background in evolutionary biology. In biology, the only thing that matters is reproduction. Given a population with

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Human Experience Politics

History Repeats

August 15, 2021August 17, 2021

There’s an unhappy photo on the Associated Press of what appears to be a CH-47 Chinook hovering over Kabul evacuating diplomats. It looks distressingly like

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Body Human Experience

A Year of COVID

March 11, 2021April 24, 2021

It really is beginning to look like there is light at the end of the tunnel…..barring a really virulent COVID variant.

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Human Experience Mind

New Logic in the Trump Era

January 23, 2021January 25, 2021

I’ve noticed two logical arguments that are repeatedly used by Trumpists, both flawed. To America’s discredit, they seem to be gaining more general use. In

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Human Experience

Not Tragic

January 7, 2021January 16, 2021

After the rape of Capitol Hill by a Trumpian mob, I wonder if this is the act of hubris that I have long instinctively expected.

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Human Experience Politics

Faust Knew Better

January 7, 2021January 9, 2021

I wrote a fair amount during the George W. and Obama administrations, particularly the former’s. Incensed by the stupidity of squandering the 2000 budget surplus

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COVID and GDP

December 29, 2020January 9, 2021

Update to this article. The Economist distilled my thinking on 12/5/2020: Two factors tied to the pandemic help account for Taiwan’s relative success this year.

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Human Experience Politics

Quote for Later

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

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Human Experience

Happy New Day

January 2, 2021January 2, 2021

Was reading somewhere about an author’s disappointment that something didn’t happen at the very end of 2020 to bring more closure. The sentiment is entirely silly.

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Human Experience

356,000 Dead. 12/16/2020.

December 16, 2020December 19, 2020

The NYT is reporting that while the deaths attributable to corona virus is 303,963, the death rate has been higher than they would be in

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