This is the beginning of a series so wide-ranging, I hardly know how to go about it. As you read it, then, keep in mind that everything, in some way, is going to be connecting to everything else. This means that it will help if you mull over each post, and maybe even do your own follow-up research, to help keep much of it in your memory.

( We begin around the Appalachians )

If you want to read about an amazing life, try Colonel Sanders. From the Great Depression until his death in 1980, (about a week before J.Lennon was killed), 'Colonel Sanders' kept pushing through a multitude of failures and successes, "too busy to work," until he finally conquered the world with his special fried chicken, which kinda paralleled ( Read more... )

What is consciousness?  Well, the very asking of the question already, "begs the question," doesn't it?  (A large part of the meaning of life is just the ability to be able to ask, "what is the meaning of life?")  Ever since you were born, everything you do, everywhere you go, is written on the dynamic slate of your consciousness, a priori.  So, ( Read more... )

The universe of statistics is curved in upon itself. Often, you can only go so far with some extreme probability before it indeed expresses itself, way before it was ever expected. Remember the RadioLab episode, (I think), where a girl in England lost her balloon, and some other girl in England found it - and they both had the same names, and so on ( Read more... )

It is said that we have no Constitutional right to privacy. However, one Amendment in the Constitution referenced in regards to a general right to privacy is the Third Amendment, wherein soldiers are not allowed to station themselves in one's home unless necessary ( Read more... )

Washington Post: NSA Spying Included Major Internet Giants:
2013/jun/6 - A report by the Washington Post Thursday night revealed that the government's data-mining operation expands far beyond tracking some phone metadata....

Top Secret FISA Order Requires Verizon to Deliver Millions of American Phone Records to NSA - MORE HERE
2013/jun/06 - “The ( ( Read more... )

"Service is the rent we pay ( Read more... )