One of the problems with peeing in the pool (not that you would do it, of course) is that the pee goes everywhere. Humans, and perhaps other animals as well, tend to be short-sighted and do things for their own convenience. For however long humans have been on planet Earth, we have been metaphorically peeing in the pool and then moving to the other end. Whether we have finally discovered that there is no “other end” remains to be seen. The principal impetus for this blog entry is not some new information about the way humans have been damaging the . . . → Read More: Ecosystems: The “No Peeing” End of the Pool
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 Comments are closed  Blog  African-Americans, Age of Aquarius, Alfred, architect, army, Blacks, California, Charleston, Cherokee, China, Civil Rights, clinical social work, college, Commissioned Officers, Computer Information Systems, construction, Department Chair, dissertation, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, English Department, environment, evening news, Executive Order, faculty, Filipino, Florida, Ft. Lauderdale, George Santayana, graduate school, historic Black church, Illinois, India, integration, JFK, John F. Kennedy, justice, karate, Lord Tennyson, Los Altos, Los Angeles, Mexican, Mexican War of Independence, Mexico, military, Nature red in tooth and claw, NCOs, Noncommissioned Officers, Okinawan Karate Academy, Oklahoma, Pakistan, peace, pee, peeing, politicians, pool, post-racial, President Truman, race, reconciliation, reparations, revolution, SC, short-sighted, Sixth Extinction, South Carolina, Spanish Conquistadors, swimming pool, Texas, Trail of Tears, University of Florida, University of Illinois, Urbana, Vietnam, war on Christians, Watts, Western Michigan University, Whites, WMU By now, you undoubtedly know about the devastating earthquake in Nepal. You may not have heard, however, about the earthquake in SW Michigan. Earthquakes come in all sizes, from the huge and deadly to the minor shake-ups. Michigan’s earthquake was a minor shake-up. When I was growing up in California, we had numerous minor quakes. Even though they always came as a surprise, we learned to recognize them for what they were. After I had grown up and left, California experienced at least two serious quakes with extensive damage and some deaths, one in northern California and one in southern . . . → Read More: Earthquakes Comments are closed Blog airplanes, Aldous Huxley, Alexander the Great, Amish, assimilation, automobiles, bats, bees, belief systems, Big Enders, birds, Brave New World, butterflies, California, carbon paper, Catholics, Chiffon margarine, climate change, Denisovans, drought, earth, earthquake, electronic communication, elimination, evolution, floods, forest and trees, genetic modification, Genghis Khan, geology, GMOs, God, GPS, Gulliver's Travels, herbicides, horses, Islam, Jonathan Swift, Julius Caesar, letters, Life, Little Enders, long distance, Mother Nature, mules, natural disasters, Nature, Neanderthals, Nepal, news, news weeklies, newspapers, northern California, pesticides, phone calls, plate tectonics, Protestants, radio, rear-view cameras, red in tooth and claw, seatbelts, Shia, southern California, Sunni, survival, SW Michigan, Tennyson, tornadoes, trains, tribes, TV, typewriters, volcanic activity, volcanoes, wagons, Western U.S. A recent Internet news article, “Want To Look Smarter? Stop Sending Emails And Speak Like A Human,” by Emily Peck, reminded me of the ways communication channels influence the meanings of messages. The principal communication channels fall into three general classes: visual (what we see), auditory (what we hear), and kinesthetic (touch, taste, smell, and emotional response). Although neither the article nor the study on which it is based specifically addresses the concept of channel richness, that is basically what the article is about. Face-to-face (F2F) is considered the richest communication channel because it conveys the most information. Assuming . . . → Read More: Changing Channels Comments are closed Blog apple, audio, auditory, auto-correct, channels, communication, communication channel, congruence, congruent, Emily Peck, F2F, face-to-face, hearing challenged, hearing impaired, Huffington Post, hunt and peck, incongruent, iPhone 6+, kinesthetic, letters, newscasts, Nick Eply, NLP, permanent record, podcast, postal systems, radio, Steve Andreas, tango, television, TV, video conference, visual, visually challenged, voice mail I am old enough that I had most of the childhood illnesses for which vaccines are now available. I had both kinds of measles, chicken pox, mumps, and (I believe) whooping cough. I did have a number of vaccinations as a child, including small pox, tetanus, and probably some others. In my early 20s, I was among those who took the first version of the vaccine for polio developed by Dr. Jonas Salk. When I was in the Army, all new recruits were vaccinated against everything for which vaccines were available, including plague, probably in anticipation of our being sent . . . → Read More: The Vaccine Wars Comments are closed Blog advertising, anti-vaxxers, army, bats, bees, birds, candidates for office, Catholic Church, CDC, Centers for Disease Control, chicken pox, disease management, doctors, Ebola, Galileo, GMO, guns, herbicides, ICIMED, immunization, infant mortality, ingredients, International College of Integrative Medicine, Joseph Mercola, measles, military, mumps, negative advertising, pesticides, political process, politics, Pope, quack, quack watch, smallpox, States, tanks, U.S., US, vaccinations, vaccines, vaxxers, Vietnam, whooping cough We’ve known for a long time that the proof of the pudding is in the eating, but we tend to forget the wide variety of ways the saying applies. When we recognize that everything is “information,” we can begin to notice what is “high-quality” information and what information is of lower quality. The higher the quality, the greater the likelihood that the information will prove true over time. A pudding that looks really good, for example, may not taste as good as it looks. The food you see advertised on TV, is typically not edible. It’s made to look good . . . → Read More: Actions Speak Louder than Words Comments are closed Blog actions, automobiles, behavior, camera, computers, cynicism, Einstein, election, election cycle, feedback, high quality, House, information, insanity, issues, negative advertising, opposition advertising, political, politicians, politics, promises, proof, pudding, results, Senate, silly season, special interests, time, TV advertising, vested interest, voter, voters, voting, words I started political life as an Eisenhower Republican. I was in the 5th grade, and one of our assignments was to study the presidential election of 1952 and choose a candidate to vote for. Eisenhower was the Republican. Stevenson was the Democrat. My parents liked Ike, so I liked Ike, too. Others in my class also aligned with their parents—understandable given our age. It is only in retrospect I can see and understand how those early influences began shaping my political philosophy. Eisenhower is remembered primarily for initiating the Interstate Highway System and for warning us against the Military-Industrial Complex. . . . → Read More: Political Realities Comments are closed Blog 1960, 5th grade, Barry Goldwater, Bernie Sanders, Big Ag, Big Banks, Big Pharma, clean energy, compromise, cooperation, cronyism, distortion of reality, doublespeak, election, fossil fuels, George Orwell, historical data, Ike, incarceration, industry, infrastructure, Interstate Highways, Kansas, Lyndon Johnson, military, Military Industrial Complex, money in politics, national debt, political left, political life, political philosophy, political right, politics, President Kennedy, prison, Progressives, Republican, Sam Brownback, size of government, taxes, U.S. Congress, Will Rogers A long time ago (1985) a New York University professor, Neil Postman, published Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. One of the principal ideas is that television is “entertainment,” even when the subject is serious. The “news” becomes just another “show.” From time to time I have wondered what Professor Postman would have thought about social media. His principal complaint about television was that it turns “news” into “entertainment.” Rational discourse was replaced by video and sound “bites,” with the focus of attention increasingly fleeting and fragmented. I remember the history of television . . . → Read More: Social Media and Our Collective Well-being Comments are closed Blog A.M., ABC, actors, addiction, addictive behavior, Amusing Ourselves to Death, ARPANET, BITNET, broadcast media, Cable, CBS, Civil Rights, college, consumers, contacts, Dancing with the Stars, DWTS, entertainment, F.M., Facebook, generations, go outside and play, Google+, gossip, high school, history, horse, horseback, information, Internet, Istagram, letters to the editor, LinkedIn, NBC, Neil Postman, New York University, news, newspapers, newsweeklies, online gaming, PinIt, play, publications, radio, reading, riding horses, Selfies, Snapchat, social media, soldiers, sound bites, texting, texting while driving, TV, Twitter, Vietnam, Vietnam War, voting by text message, walking, war, Web sites, World Wide Web, www My guess is that readers of this blog already know that oxygen is a principal key to the health and well-being of life on Earth. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a way of delivering oxygen directly to the blood, tissue, and other bodily fluids. Although it is often done in a hospital setting, especially in burn units, some individuals have purchased units for their own use. HBOT chambers come in two varieties, hard chamber (HBOT) and soft chamber (mHBOT). Hard chamber units are able to employ higher pressure to address certain kinds of problems best treated in hospital settings, although . . . → Read More: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Comments are closed Blog acupuncture, airplanes, antioxidants, back pain, blood pressure, bowels, circulation, claustrophobia, coronary disease, Debra Basham, ears, earth, fast phobia cure, Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth, HBOT, health, health benefits, hearing, hearing aids, high blood pressure, hyperbaric, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, Mesotherapy, mHBOT, NLP, oxygen, oxygen mask, oxygen therapy, pharmaceuticals, placebo, placebo effect, scientific, seeking and finding, silica, surgery, the bends, therapy, validity, well-being The question, “Are we there yet,” is a cliché of traveling with children. We expect adults, even those grown weary with traveling, to have a better understanding of how long it takes to get from Point A to Point B. This blog entry is about our collective journey from racism to a “postracial” culture. It was prompted by recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, following yet another police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. The policeman, as is usually the case, was white. One such shooting isn’t the real issue, of course. The problem is that this one was just one . . . → Read More: Are We There Yet? Comments are closed Blog are we there yet, Black Muslims, Brown v. Board of Education, Cherokee, College of Wooster, DNA, English, equality, ethnicity, Ferguson, Filipino, Hadrian, Hadrian's Wall, interracial dating, James Brown, Los Altos, Martin Luther King, Mexican, Missouri, Mt. View, Muhammed Speaks, Nashville, Norwegian, Palo Alto, Pict, Pitt, police, police shooting, post-racial, postracial, race, race riots, racial, racism, Roman Emperor, San Jose, Santa Clara, segregation, Stanford University, Sub-Sarahan Africa, Supreme Court, Swett's Restaurant, U.S. Army, University of Illinois, University of Redlands, Vietnam, Watts, white privilege, white separatist “Evolution” refers to change occurring over time, typically in a positive direction. As Darwin envisioned it, species changed (gradually) over time to enhance their ability to survive. These days the word is commonly used for any change that seems to be for the better. Not everyone, of course, agrees on what’s “better.” When President Obama says that his views of gay marriage are evolving, he means that he is becoming more tolerant and accepting. Not everyone, including members of the Westboro Baptist Church, however, would agree that’s a change for the better. One of my favorite writers, Steven Pinker, . . . → Read More: Evolution Comments are closed Blog abortion, Angels, Beowulf, Better Angels of our Nature, change, Christ, Christians, Copernicus, crops, Epic of Gilgamesh, equal protection under the law, evolution, fracking, Galileo, gay marriage, Gaza, gerrymandering, global climate change, GMO, gospel, gospels, herbicides, Homer, ideas, Iliad, insecticides, Islam, Islamists, John, justice, King David, King Solomon, Luke, manuscripts, Mark, Mathew, Mideast, Muslims, Obama, Odyssey, Onan, oral tradition, peace, plantations, reality, same-sex marriage, scribes, slave, slavery, Steven Pinker, Ukraine, vested interests |
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