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Category Archives: Anthropology
Ecology Now!
This exhortation has a strange ring to it now, and it is likely that no one under the age of fifty ever heard it, but the image above is a poster of an actual flag created by the activist organization … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Biology, Climate, Ecology, Ethics, History, Religion
Tagged Ecology now, Gaia, Holism, nationalism, Save our fire
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Russians R Us
So perhaps you are red headed and fancy yourself Celtic. Well, I’ve got news for you. There may have been a few red genes somewhere but the Celtic genome and culture were centered in France and characterized by brown hair … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Geography, History, Plate Tectonics, Seismic Tomography
Tagged and Jutes, Angles, Celtic, Saxons
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Nature and Chaos
We don’t even know what randomness is. In gambling and cryptography computer algorithms are used to create “pseudo” random strings that are difficult to cipher, but ultimately these are “determined” by the algorithm. To get “true” randomness we resort to … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Biology, Chaos, Fourth Law of Thermodynamics, god of chaos, Randomness
Tagged Chaos, Fourth Law of Thermodynamics, Life, Randomness
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Cold is the New Hot
Once it was that everything was getting hotter and hotter and pretty soon we would be frying eggs by just putting the pan outside. This was to have been because a certain trace gas was invested with magical powers far … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Climate, Climate Change, Cold is the New Hot, Global Warming, Religion, Shamanism
Tagged Cold=Hot, Dinglenuts
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Carbon and the Second Coming
Why do we yearn the judgment day? Why is there always, on some street corner, somewhere, somebody proclaiming that the end is near? One must learn from their weaknesses, if possible. But this yearning keeps returning, again, and again. We … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Climate, Human need for Judgdment, Shamanism
Tagged Judgment Day, Second Coming
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The Dinosaurs Died for our Sins
The original sin, secondary, tertiary, quaternary sins. Hurricanes, tornadoes are upon us. Quick! Find a witch to burn. Well, at least he saved the weed eater. Not to minimize the tragedies, just the sensationalism. Nobody wants their house trashed and … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, History of Life
Tagged Mount Etna, sensationalism, The original sin
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The Primacy of Vulcan
In the beginning there was a great flash of light, and soon there was the primal proton, Hydrogen, which fused to produce Helium , and so on, within supernovae, to create our pantheon of elements. Honestly, we need to muster … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Biology, Geology
Tagged Atum, Cosmology, Egypt, Heliopolis, Primacy of Vulcan, Shu, Technology, Vulcan
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Circumnavigating Mount Whitney
In five decades of mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, the wilderness has changed from a wild west dominated by cowboys and pack trains to a highly regulated theme park with lotteries for permits to visit the most desirable locations. With … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Geography, Geology, Mount Whitney, Wilderness
Tagged Hiking, John Muir, Mount Whitney, Mount Whitney Trail, Whitney Portal, Whitney Portal California
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