BlogHide Resteemsnatator88 (60)in fiction • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.ALTERNATIVE FUTURE HISTORY: CUBAN DEMOCRACYMargaret Trudeau, mother of Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada, and wife to Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada, visited Cuba in 1971. Justin Trudeau was born in December, 1971.…natator88 (60)in olympics • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.ART PERSONIFIED - OLYMPICSAliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot of Germany just captured the gold medal at the PyeongChang Winter 2018 Olympics. Watching their free skate performance made me think: art personified. The music…natator88 (60)in news • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.The Most Heartwarming Headline You'll See Maybe EverSouth Korea Asks UN for Permission to Let North Korean Official Attend Olympics I sometimes sit and ponder how North Korea will lift itself from its morass. Lately, it seems that South Korea is…natator88 (60)in ecology • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Suicidal Species and the Complexity of NatureSuicidal Species Are (nonhuman) species suicidal by nature? That is, will they consume prey until there is no prey left, thereby unintentionally committing suicide? An experiment from the 1930s by…natator88 (60)in environmentalism • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Make America Green AgainThe Sierra Club just sent a sticker in the mail: Make America Green Again. I'm going to use this sticker, and enjoy using it, even though it is anathema to their mission. Specifically, they…natator88 (60)in ecology • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.A Libertarian and Epistemocratic View of EcologyWhat do the primacy of the individual and a recognition of the unknowable have to do with ecology? Let us rewind time back to 1798 and a chap called Malthus, who proposed a theory of population…natator88 (60)in nature • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Discordant Harmonies - Daniel B. BotkinIs nature intrinsically harmonious or inharmonious? Mainstream ecologists would probably reply, "Harmonious, of course. Everything is interconnected in a beautiful web of smoothly running…natator88 (60)in life • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Maximize the Serendipity Around YouNassim Taleb is full of one-liners good for maxims, mottoes, and mantras. Just read his book "The Bed of Procrustes." This particular advice, however, comes from his book "The Black Swan." For…natator88 (60)in photography • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Winter BeautyMy Mom is an excellent photographer. She shot this pine cone during Golden Light, an hour after sunrise or sunset. I was lucky enough to be raised by two generations of photographers, my Mom and…natator88 (60)in bitcoin • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Why I Hope Bitcoin Keeps DroppingAt the beginning of this year, I had about enough cryptocurrency here on steemit to buy one Bitcoin. But I didn't, because I'm not a very decisive person. Now, I'm kicking myself. So, I hope…natator88 (60)in cognitive-biases • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.AI Fears OverhypedEvery time I read one of Bill Gates' injunctions against AI, or Elon Musk's warnings against it, I don't feel afraid. After all, as one of my hyper-intelligent friends says, there will always be a…natator88 (60)in philosophy • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.WESTERN CIVILIZATION'S THREE WORLDVIEWSTraditionalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism: which will win out in the end? "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." - Louis Brandeis. It will cleanse all bad ideas from our society. Image…natator88 (60)in news • 7 years agoCAN WE LEARN ANYTHING FROM THE CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES?Yes, we can. Specifically: Nature is more powerful than we are We need more prescribed burns We need to change our attitudes to wildfire control Breathtaking but deadly.…natator88 (60)in science • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DON'T KNOW AND WE CAN'T PREDICT ITMULTIPLICATIVE DIFFICULTY HYPOTHESIS How can we predict things? What does trying to predict the 25th impact of a billiard ball tell us about the nature of the universe and the limits of our…natator88 (60)in contest • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.MEME CONTEST- YOU ARE WHAT YOU READEarn SBD! Have fun! Be creative! I'm reopening my Meme Contest , since I didn't get any entrants last time. Same rules as before, except the deadline is Friday, December 8 at 12 pm…natator88 (60)in science • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.BRAINS ARE ANTICIPATION MACHINESHYPOTHESIS Why do we predict the future? Why do we anticipate? What is the evolutionary foundation for this mechanism? According to Daniel Dennett, it is because it is beneficial to play out…natator88 (60)in society • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.CHARACTER VS DIVERSITYTHE HYPOTHESIS I went to givewell.org to search for Property and Environment Research Council, a company I want to work for. Their search engine is down, but I noticed a tab labeled “Our…natator88 (60)in life • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.HORSE FEATHERS EVERYWHEREHave you ever gotten something in your mind and started seeing it everywhere? Probably, because this is a version of synchronicity , or perhaps confirmation bias . Well, what I'm seeing is…natator88 (60)in environmentalism • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.WHY WAS THE FROG INCORRECT? IT JUMPED TO THE WRONG CONCLUSION.What do Dusky Gopher Frogs and property rights have in common? I wish I could think of a punchline, but neither the environment nor property rights are a joke. A Dusky Gopher Frog. Image…natator88 (60)in nature • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.How to Hold a FrogI am quite the herpetology (amphibians and reptiles) freak, and I enjoy spreading my passion to others. This summer, I worked with 2 species of birds, which although are technically herps, do not…
