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9-11
Today, I am more sad for my nation than I have been in years. Nine years ago today, self-sworn enemies of life, liberty, and happiness struck at the heart of a people who asked no quarrel. Osama bin Laden and al … Continue reading
Posted in al Qaeda, Groups, History, Holidays, Nations, Osama bin Laden, Patriot Day, People, United States, World Watch
Tagged 9-11, bin Laden, change, happiness, liberty, Life, memory, Sacrifice, United States
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Farming: 1st Anniversary
The beginning of the new school year reminds me that I have reached a milestone: one year since I started farming full-time. It’s been a bumpy year, with big successes and catastrophic failures along the way. I’ve learned more in the past year than I think I have in the rest of my life put together, and […] Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Philosophy
Tagged Anniversaries, Experiments, Farming, Life, revolutions, Self-sufficiency, self-sustainment
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Free range parenting
So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. –Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the event of his first … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Society
Tagged decisions, fear, information, kids, Lenore Skenazy, Life, living, New York City, subway, what if
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No, no I’m not a rationalist
A continued popular thread around the internet is the self-declared righteousness of so-called rationalists: that is, people who believe that everything in the universe and outside of it can be explained only by empirical observation that accumulates facts that then, … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Rhetoric
Tagged atheism, belief, Christianity, Defense, evidence, Faith, hope, knowledge, Life, Philosophy, rationalism, science, Thinking, understanding
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Does synthetic life prove something else?
Certain parts of the interwebs are atwitter with the news that scientists in the United States have managed to create a cell containing a synthetic genome (that is, one that was manufactured as a copy of an existing genome) that … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, News, Predictions, Society, Synthetic Life
Tagged capacity, century, creation, Humans, Life, Reality, science, Synthetic Life, the end
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