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Category Archives: Essays
Expectations can change us!
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Downtown driving tax could fix traffic without pricing out the poor
From Crosscut: Mayor Durkan wants to toll drivers to lower emissions and break Seattle’s gridlock, and new research shows it could benefit low-income communities, too.by An evening view of the Pacific Tower on Beacon Hill, Seattle, with traffic on Interstate … Continue reading
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Why Did Soviets Invade Afghanistan? Documents Offer History Lesson for Trump
Ed Note: The article below explains how little President Trump understands about Afghanistan. Or perhaps he does understand Russia’s aspirations there and is effectively turning the “great game” back their favor. The book, The Great Game, documents the long history … Continue reading
Should Scientists Toy With the Secret to Life?
Ed Note: Science continues to push well ahead of the ethical implications involved, especially now with the ability to modify our basic genetic makeup. With Crispr the key is now present to consider literally cutting out bad genes known to … Continue reading
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Washington could become the first state to legalize human composting
Washington residents “are very excited about the prospect of becoming a tree or having a different alternative,” state Sen. Jamie Pedersen said. A process known as “recomposition” reduces human remains to compost. CAHNRS Communications / Washington State UniversityDec. 29, 2018, 10:06 … Continue reading
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Nature vs Nurture – our beliefs may be more important than our genes in this study
Ed note: The age old argument about nature vs. nurture will likely continue on for ages. In the field of epigenetics it’s been discovered that we can actually turn our genes off/on with some life experiences. At times our beliefs … Continue reading
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For Seattle, Viadoom gridlock is history repeated
From Crosscut: On Jan. 11, Seattle enters a period the city has dubbed the “Period of Maximum Constraint.” It sounds a bit like bondage, but without the fun bits. It kicks off with the closure of the Alaskan Way Viaduct, resulting … Continue reading
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Am I old?
From the NYT: “A few years ago at a college reunion, I listened transfixed as the silver-haired philanthropist David Rubenstein urged us “to accelerate” as we entered the last chapters of our lives. Pick up the pace? So many of … Continue reading
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Reach out, listen, be patient. Good arguments can stop extremism
From Aeon: “Many of my best friends think that some of my deeply held beliefs about important issues are obviously false or even nonsense. Sometimes, they tell me so to my face. How can we still be friends? Part of … Continue reading
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Seattle drivers? Kuya Geo Has a Rap for That
Does a honk mean “I hate you” in Seattle? If you put too many rabbits in a cage they begin to destroy their young. What the crowding mean for the future of driving in Seattle?
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Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War
Ed Note: This is a superb piece of investigative journalism by the NYT: “Russia’s meddling in the United States’ elections is not a hoax. It’s the culmination of Moscow’s decades-long campaign to tear the West apart. “Operation InfeKtion” reveals the ways … Continue reading
“Baby It’s Cold Outside” becomes controversial
Ed note: There are two versions with the sexes reversed in this video clip – the second is hilarious. Is it flirting or harassment? I find it pretty tame when compared to “modern” rap songs. From the NYT: “Rock Hudson did … Continue reading
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Restaurant entrepreneurs in Seattle – Canlis and on
Thanks to Paul T for finding this article The Fifties By Ronald Holden 1950 Once the Legislature changed state law to permit the service of liquor by the drink in restaurants, Peter Canlis, a restaurateur from Hawaii, almost immediately commissions architect Roland … Continue reading
The Roots of Seattle’s Filipino Community
Ed note: My sister-in-law always calls me Kuya Jim. And have you noted the suffix “po” used by Filipinos as a term of respect? This video talks about the generational shift in the international district and the contribution of the … Continue reading
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Abandoning U.S.-Russia nuclear-arms treaty threatens our very existence
By : George P. Shultz and Mikhail Gorbachev Special to The Washington Post More than 30 years have passed since the day the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, meeting in Geneva, adopted a joint statement declaring … Continue reading
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A Closer Look
Thank to Peg H for submitting A Closer Look
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How climate change could affect us all – new US government report (buried by release on Black Friday)
(CNN)The average global temperature is much higher and rising more rapidly than “anything modern civilization has experienced,” according to David Easterling, one of the authors of a new US government report that delivers a dire warning about our future. Thousands more could die, … Continue reading
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An unlikely friendship – Maureen Dowd and President George Herbert Walker Bush
From the New York Times by Maureen Dowd “Nobody understood our relationship — least of all us. It was, admittedly, odd. “I like you,” the first President Bush wrote me once, after he was out of office. “Please don’t tell … Continue reading
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Jewish nurse who treated Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect has a powerful message in the face of evil: Love
Thanks to Marilyn W for sending along this CNN report. People greet each other in the sanctuary at Temple Sinai in Pittsburgh before Friday evening Shabbat services. (CNN)A Jewish nurse who took care of the man charged with killing 11 people at … Continue reading
“Tour of Grief”
From the NYT sent in by Pamela P The Orca, Her Dead Calf and Us Among the many quirks of human nature, one that has always struck me as particularly worthwhile is the tendency to project our own feelings onto … Continue reading
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Blond hair and the Norden bombsights -a fascinating WWII story
Thanks to Tom G for sending this along. Mary Babnick Brown was an American woman who donated her long blond hair to be used as crosshairs in Norden bombsights in WW II. Brown was a Coloradan; the children of Slovenian … Continue reading
The Amazon Diaries
Thanks to Frank C for forwarding this from The Guardian. In The Amazon Diaries, our anonymous insider takes us behind the scenes at an Amazon fulfillment center where workers are ‘an extension of the machine’ ‘The wealth we produce is being … Continue reading
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OPERATION INFEKTION: THE ORIGINS OF FAKE NEWS
This three-part video series explores misinformation campaigns from the days before ‘fake news’ was a sound bite, and how modern-day governments are fighting back—or profiting from the chaos. By Adam B. Ellick, Adam Westbrook for The New York Times Click here to view … Continue reading
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Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace – and how to deal with our cell phones
Ed note: Are you having trouble understanding the entitlement that some millennials have and their immersion in social media and cell phones. This video will help you understand why this generation is having so many problems as they enter the … Continue reading
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George Romney – The free press is not our enemy. It is very much our friend.
Opinion in the NYT: “When I was growing up, Americans got their news very differently than we do today. The newspaper was a central part of every day; in our house, the Detroit Free Press was delivered in the morning and the Detroit … Continue reading