End of The Stone Age There are two major discoveries in human history that essentially have informed human society ever since. The very first was the change that stopped the Stone Age and began the Bronze Age. Most historians believe this happened accidentally. If you think about how they get bronze, they find bronze […]
The Magic Of The Earth
Boring Movie The other night I was watching this interesting movie on TV. It started out interesting but then it started to get kind of boring. A lot of the conversations that characters were having were outside in this very beautiful garden. Because the movie was boring, I stopped paying attention to what they […]
Hidden Valley Of Women
Backpacking Trip I’ve done a lot of backpacking. I have since I was very very young. As a kid backpacking is fun because you get to you get to get out into the wilderness and sleep in a tent or sleep under the stars, but as an adult it’s rewarding in much different way. […]
Dirt Is Important
Two Types of Civilizations If you look back over the long history of human civilizations you’ll find two basic types of civilizations that have popped up over time. The first and most common type the most people think about is the agriculturally based civilizations. These had these cities and these empires that were built […]
Nomad Lifestyle
Swan Pond There’s a park near my apartment. In this park there is a large pond and in the pond you’ll find some swans and sometimes some ducks. Usually on the weekends there are people feeding the swans and feeding the ducks. I went down to this park a couple of weeks ago except […]
Corrupt Kings and Noble Mythology
Boy Scouts When I was a kid I was in Boy Scouts and we had this very old very wise very kind of noble retired scoutmaster. He was never a an actual scoutmaster when I was there by the time I had started when I had joined he had already become retired. He always […]
Hallucinated Futures
Attractive Neighbor I have this really attractive really intelligent next-door neighbor I’ve never seen her with anybody and I’ve never asked her out myself because a long time ago I made the huge mistake of dating somebody that I lived very close to and I vowed never to make that mistake again. One day […]
Malthus and Overpopulation
Nature Video I started watching this interesting set of science videos. It is a set of 24 videos, 30 minutes each, and they’re all about life sciences. The one I watched I can watch them out of order. The one I watched started off talking about populations and natural equilibrium. They were talking about […]
The Human Condition
Economics Book I was reading this interesting book on economics recently. I like to read books on economics, I have for several years. I’ve read probably 15 to 20 of them. This one was pretty interesting because it was about economics from a standpoint of ancient human history and how our ancient instincts are […]
Unsustainability
All Modern Societies Are Unsustainable There are a couple of different ways to view an anthill. You can look at it as one singular organism unto itself or you could look at it as a collection of individual organisms onto themselves, all genetically programmed to support the meta-organism. You can look at a beehive […]
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