By Caitlin Lowery: When you, as a white person, post statements today that every one should ” move on” , “move forward” , ” stop spreading hate”, “show more love”, or be “united as a country”, you are showing your privilege. Trump’s racism will never affect you. His discrimination will Read more
Shrimp: 2 tablespoons of butter melted in pan. Full teaspoon of pepper, parsley, thyme and garlic powder. Cook at medium high temperature until shrimp turn pink. Should be a couple of minutes. Squeeze half a lemon or lime of the hot shrimp. Set aside. Potatoes: nuke for about 6 minutes, Read more
Yesterday’s news reported that now 100,000 children are being held captive in camps. If I may add they are concentration camps. The US government has seen it fit to use state hired lawyers to debate in court that we have no legal obligation to supply these children with their basic Read more
Capricorn Science is a lifestyle blog which came into being late last year. We cover the following subjects, divided by categories, for easier access: Politics, Funky Wonky, Metro Gourmet, Healthy Living, Awesome Stuff, Good Vibes, Brainiack, Finance, and Talking Pets. Two new categories have been added: Political Satire and Collectors Read more
Logical thinking, once embraced is a thing of beauty, which deserves our attention and admiration. It’s become common in today’s world for people to confuse facts with fiction or conjecture. Observing and participating in many conversations will demonstrate how fact and conjecture are readily and easily exchanged, as one. During Read more
Flowers from my garden. I thought that those of you enduring winter cold would enjoy them a bit. An article I read this morning tells how scientists have discovered that flowers can hear the buzzing of bees and become sweeter as they arrive to pollinate. The eternal dance of reproduction, Read more
It’s not about you! We often wonder how did our current situation become what it is. How did we get here? What am I talking about? Fascism, Nazism, Oligarchism, Anti-Feminism, Anti-Race, Anti-Poor, Anti-Children, Anti-Women, Anti-Civil-Rights, Anti-Constitution, Anti-Science, Anti-Education, to name a few. After studying each one of these maladies that Read more
Photographs depicting health professionals from South Korea, Italy, China, and USA. If you have been paying attention, and I hope you have, there is a worldwide pandemic traveling at the speed of death from shore to shore. We are under lifesaving lock down within our homes in an attempt to Read more
Coconut Sorbet: One can of Coco Lopez mixed with half a bottle of Coconut syrup. Mix, pour in small plastic cups and freeze. Delicious. Vanilla Sorbet: mix one egg yolk with 4 tablespoons of sugar. Add a can of condensed milk, one tablespoon of vanilla, one teaspoon of cinnamon. Mix Read more
What a pleasant surprise this little recipe has been. Cook the thick cut bacon. Save the pan with the fat to cook stage two. Dip cooked bacon in pancake mix, that should be ready on the side. Place back in pan and cook and turn over. If the pan gets Read more
Mary Lee Thornton is a Facebook friend. An interior designer by profession. Georgia is her home. Grandmother to multiple bundles of joy. We have been friends for a couple of years. My dear friend was sick, very sick. Our contact was limited to mundane things. Never anything too deep and Read more
A bit radical, when we explore the idea that leaving a nonlegacy is best for everyone. It seems that most of us want a legacy of children, grandchildren, inventions, fortunes, creations, collections, and just stuff. Being the odd bird that I am, I’ve lived knowing I that someday I will Read more
In case you have missed us, we took some time off from blogging. Publishing 600 posts in one year took it’s toll, but here we are, rested and ready to fly. We hope you have all been well, surviving as best possible the 2020 poison. We will fight to the Read more
We have not long to love. Light does not stay. The tender things are those we fold away. Coarse fabrics are the ones for common wear. In silence I have watched you comb your hair. Intimate the silence, dim and warm. I could but did not, reach to touch your Read more
I have stories and worries floating around my mind. The conservation of our planet Earth and the ethical treatment of all living creatures, animal or others, carries a daunting weight on my mind. On occasion pictures can tell most of the desired message. This is one of those times. In Read more
Why protect the interests of other countries businesses over our own? Why protect the interest of pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies over our own.? Answer that and I’ll shut up. But ask yourself these questions. They must be addressed. Stop buying into the mountain of lies you have been fed. Read more
Introducing Nick Bostrom. About five years ago I came across a paper written and presented by Nick Bostrom. He is a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University. The paper is titled : “Are you living in a computer simulation?” It was first published in Philosophical Quarterly (2003) Read more
Unknowing eyes would fail and call her old while missing entirely that they are in the presence of the Eternal Woman. She is never young nor ever old, just eternal. Flowing within and outside of time, skipping upon the ripples of time. Changing vessels at will and playing in the Read more
If I were Donald Trump, the thing that would scare me most is that, if people are willing to walk into a hail of tear gas canisters and rubber bullets, and to do so in the middle of a pandemic, they will also go to the polls.
Like mostly every one else, I watched and followed the events surrounding Mr. Kaepernick’s famous kneel during the playing of the National Anthem in protest of police brutality towards African Americans. Of course I was and am with him on this issue. What I did not know at the time Read more