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Sunday, September 11, 2022

Meeting Protesters in Darmstadt and While Marking A Sad Anniversary of the City

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  Leon and Vanessa on the way to protest low wages in Darmstadt I am in Darmstadt visiting my friend Cliff. We were walking the perimeter of...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Axl Rose T-Shirt Leads (Naturally) to a Discussion of the World War II and the Holocaust

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Three fans of Axl Rose meet at a history of science conference On the first day of a history of science conference, I met the author working...
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Life is Crazier than Fiction! Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander by David Cordingly, Book 31 of 2022

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  Life really can be stranger than fiction.  In the case of Lord Thomas Cochrane, the actual man behind the Captain Jack Aubrey of the ...
Sunday, September 4, 2022

Evolution Has No Direction--Advanced Cultures Can Sink into Tribalism

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In popular culture evolution has a direction, but in reality evolution is simply adaptation to environment.    In a session of the weekly bo...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Spirits in Bondage by C.S. Lewis. Book 29 of 2022

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Spirits in Bondage is the work of a young man, a teenager.  In those years, between ages 15 and 18, C.S. Lewis lived through some of the hi...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Rabbi Ratifies Replacement-Theory Racism

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Since August 2017, I have been trying to make sense of a world in which torch-carrying Nazis marched on the campus of the University of Virg...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Today is Ukraine Independence Day, and Six Months Since the Start of the Russian Invasion

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  Today is the 31st anniversary of Ukraine's Independence, the day it broke free of the Soviet Union and became an independent nation.  ...