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“Darwinism”
I made a comment on a YouTube video yesterday that I liked so much I am recording it here. “They” refers to Christian apologists who are trying to discredit evolution. (Edited slightly to correct an autocorrect error.) I find it … Continue reading
Infinity can be a number
Someone I respect and read every day, Seth Goden, came out today with a howler: “infinity is not a number“. This is a very 19th century way of thinking. In fact if somebody says “There are no numbers that …”, … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics, Rants
Tagged Georg Cantor, infinity, nonstandard analysis, Seth Godin, surreal numbers, why not both?
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Finally a tourist
After two weeks on the road, yesterday was the first time I got to play tourist. At first, given my uneducated planning efforts, I was rushing, driving 1800 miles to get to a family wedding on time. Easy in a … Continue reading
For those of us of a certain age, May 4 will never be about Star Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Has someone been really shitty to you?
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Road Trip, day 1
Kingston, NY to Intercourse, PA: 1285 mi, 5:42. 37 mph, mostly on back roads. Through the Delaware Water Gap, but I haven’t figured out how to get video off of my dash cam. It was late when I started, and … Continue reading
Exposing Secrets
https://www.threads.net/@sars_cov.2_covid_19/post/DIffN-mvxHc There is an account on Threads that posts information that the government doesn’t want you to see. The next pandemic is knocking at the door, and Bobby Kennedy is throwing that door wide open and saying, “Come on in!” … Continue reading
Happy 22nd day of Spring
For those who celebrate
Happy Birthday to me!
To me. Birthday present #1 was a sun rising in partial eclipse. I didn’t catch the eclipse part, but I got the sunrise. Then on to communing with the ancestors. On the left my mother, who died on March 26, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Photoblog
Tagged Ashokan Reservoir, cemetery, Hudson River, Notch_Lake
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New Baby Brain Scans Reveal the Moment We Start Making Memories
My earliest memory comes from when I was about 3. When my younger daughter was 2, I asked her if she remembered being born and she said yes. I asked her again at 4 and she didn’t remember being born … Continue reading