A Discussion of Culture-Bound Syndromes: Across societies we see human universals of disease but we also see apparent illness experiences…
The Living Desert
Desert can mean to abandon or be dull Or land waterless, barren, and sandfull In this sense it’s use is…
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Creativity is what gives humans their special ability for productivity. We are capable of doing or making something that has…
Didgeridoo: Australian Reverberations
Thanks to The Haunted Wordsmith, I recently learned it is National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee or NAIDOC week…
A Holistic Summation
Holism suggests that the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts. Perhaps at first, this sounds physically or…
The Human Diet
The Paleolithic Diet – also referred to as the Caveman Diet – is a nutritional strategy largely inspired by evolutionary…
Failure, Success… Why Differentiate?
A failure is only a failure when chosen to be so. One human’s failure can easily be that person’s successful…
Sugar-Based Plant Structure
The dominant thing that sugar is used for in plants is it’s structural potential, such as the polysaccharide cellulose which…
Is gravity (according to Einstein) the effect from a distortion in the space-time fabric or the actual curvature of space-time?
First, it’s notable: You have to realize Einstein’s theory is a model of gravitational phenomenon per our observational affirmations. In…
Exploratory Courage
I hear adventure is for those with the courage to explore. We all have this courage as it is just…
What is the value of taking a linguistics class in college if you are not a linguistics major?
It makes a better learner – and a better person – in many ways. You use language to learn everything.…
Sympathy-Empathy Distinction
Sympathy is your understanding of a person’s experience. Empathy is understanding a person’s experience. This is why empathy is considered…
Mental Dominion
Country, control, and empire – like all fallacies – are ephemeral. What matters is the conquest of the turmoiled mind.…
True: Truth is a Lie. Or Just False?
“The truth is just a lie” is a true statement if it’s true that truth is real only as neurons…
How does Quantum Field Theory address wave particle duality?
Statistically. The duality is due to our mathematical models based on probability. Via calculus and empirical observation, we don’t literally…
Navajo (Diné) Cultural and Ecological Hybridization
Navajo cultural evolution has been incessant and accelerating over time. It is a fundamental occurrence and critical in understanding the…
First, Know Thyself To Be A True Fact
Fact is held self-evident, per consensual acceptance and incessantly observed existence. Truth is ideal and so held in faith, per…
If You Can Add, Then You Can Math
Mathematics is fundamentally based on putting numbers together: addition. Subtraction, multiplication, and division, and all functions and algorithms – no…
The Basics of Neuron “Firing”
Nerve cells, or neurons, are differentiated into four major parts that all contribute to it’s ability to communicate impulsively via…
The Autodidactic Fallacy
I’ve heard often enough some folks say they are an “autodidact”, or “self-taught”. I believe their intent is to say…
With Life in Mind, Thoughts Grow to Lifesize
Plot, till, amend, sow, fertilize Water, soil, air re-organize DNA coils and cells metabolize Solar rays energize and catalyze Biochemistry…
Why can’t humans feel or detect the Earth’s magnetic field like birds (might) do?
It’s likely most creatures do not sense it due to either sensory habituation, lack of survival utility, or a biophysical…
House Studies
Ecology is a subfield of biology that, in a broad sense, studies how organisms interact with other organisms and with…
Why can’t we live without water?
Water is the solvent of life. Metabolic and homeostatic systems need something like water to function. It’s polar and so good for…
Moving-Anxiety Transfers to Moving-Confidently
It seems most people anticipating a move or long-term trip to a new place get anxious. This anxiety is likely…
Concision Needs Precision
Concise is concisely defined as cut down/up. It’s not as simple as this though. To simplify any piece of language…
Scorpio and the Wolf
For Chris the Wolf, a Scorpio child… — The Wolf Spirit is eternal with no time to keep With moon…
Why does light diffraction happen? Does it relate to particle-wave duality?
Diffraction is a fundamental interaction of light with matter. Specifically, photons interacting with electrons. Photons are oscillations of the electromagnetic…
Smorgasbord Health Column – Nutrients that need others to be efficiently absorbed by the body. Vitamin C, D, K , Calcium and Magnesium
Originally posted on Smorgasbord Blog Magazine:
The health supplement industry is worth billions of dollars and pounds annually. However, there is a…
Is the Earth considered a living being?
Most any definition of life would not include a planet as a living being; only the organized anomalies within or on…
Then and Now: Ecological Links in Human Evolution
The leading theory of human origins suggests that our species evolved in, and subsequently dispersed from, Africa. In this respect,…
How do photons interact with other photons and with matter?
In most conditions, light doesn’t interact photon-to-photon. The field they flow in doesn’t engage the constituent particles this way. Photons…
Peace on the Winds of Love
My contemplation of the peace held in your hands… You call me and call me, you call me your friend…
Do photons have mass if they are bent by gravity?
No. It’s a massless force carrier of matter, via the electric force (or the electro-magnetic force to be broader). It’s…
What’s in the inner-space between stuff, and outer-space?
True vacuum. Oddly, there is actually stuff in there; albeit “virtually“. Quantum field theory suggests that the void between matter…
Is there any realistic way we can see or travel to alternate universes and dimensions?
We’re bound to our dimensions, and so our universe. For all we know, we’re messing around in others’ universe without…
ProfTomBot is a Twit
Yeah, I’m Tweeting my beak-horn. Chirp, chirp, tweet, tweet. Twitter Definition of twit: a silly or foolish person
Man of Faith: The Humanistic Scientist
Pillars of Belief: I. Adherence to ideational, experiential, sociocultural, and relativistic paradigms; which are founded on scientific and empirical principles.…
Can gravitational lensing just be dust or an effect of magnetic bodies?
I think the evidence shows that massive bodies bend light, magnetism physically cannot. To address magnetism: photons are EM emissions,…
Bane: Defined and Recognised
Bane: That which holds you back; that which does not let go. Poison? Perhaps. Bane is quite similar to burden.…
Scheiße Shade
When Scheiße hits the fan, pop open your Scheiße umbrella and enjoy life in the shade. Scheiße storms are only…
Soul Singing
For expressions so deep they need stage on high peaks For thoughts so unique they make language look weak For…
Existentia Aeterna
We have always existed and always will. Just in differing thermodynamic and physicochemical states. I have to say, so far…
Letter to a Tacit Confederate
Dearest Colleague, You are my one and only, highly prized, priceless confederate. An ally and joint-operator of a like mind;…
Routing Deep Roots
Deep rooted routes are established in deep time Their route is rooted as leaves branch and climb When roots route…
My Trip to Cocoloco via Bermuda
Should have spelled it “Kokomo”. Too late. I’m floating out to see near Tennessee. Hope the Bermuda Triangle doesn’t “ghost”…
More Than Just a Tall Rock
Mountains are not defined purely by their elevation, but by the might their summit surmounts. And if you’re American, then…
Are scientists mistaken in seeking the ‘Unified Theory of Everything’ while in actuality there may be no such thing?
If they indeed seek this theory, they are not mistaken exactly, but maybe over-stretching their limitations. Here’s why: There is…
My Opposition to Absolute “Anti-ness”
Nothing can be purely the opposite of anything. To cut right to the chase, if something is opposite something it…
Human Experience Dynamics: The rest of the story…
See the precursor if you like, but it’s redundant to this post: De Parte I Reader Readiness Caveat: this article…
The Broad Spectrum Life 