It was a year ago today, that I opened the account with Word Press and named this baby blog Capricorn Science. By late October we were designed and up and running. Like with everything new, there have been growing pains while learning the tricks of the trade , but mostly Read more…
It appears appropriate that during the worlds incarceration, due to a pandemic, to examine more closely, post-humanism and the possibility or probability that this hand has already been played and we are on re-play while we exist within a ancestor computer simulation. This part 3 completes Nick Bortrom’s Introduction of Read more…
Part one of this blog/discussion was titled “Existential Questions that Need Answers”. It contains an introduction to Nick Bostrom and his prolific career as a philosopher of Artificial Intelligence and bioethics. PART ONE outlined the ABSTRACT of the paper he published in 2002, titled ” Are you living in a Read more…
How I pick a subject to write about is like a walk down the proverbial yellow brick road. At times the obvious news that must be addressed, such as Coronavirus becomes my theme. Other times images and ideas just jump into my mind and won’t leave until I write about Read more…
As I mentioned during a previous blog it’s common for fifty countries come and visit Capricorn Science. Looking for the perfect translator plug-in has been a challenge and it occurred to me that adding the google translator link could work and be useful. 1- open a web browser and go Read more…
It’s believed that about three million different species of plants and animals inhabit the Amazons. One in ten ( 1:10 ) of each of all species in the world live in the Amazon. BBC News 8/29/2019. Therefore, when the Amazon burns to a crisp approximately 10 percent of the species Read more…
Reading out loud to your child has the following benefits: It improves the functioning of the brain, It increases vocabulary. It increases knowledge. And it sharpens memory. When they start to read by themselves the process of reading includes word recognition, comprehension and fluency.
Gravity and the “things” it moves: oceans, rivers, tears, falling rocks, wind, the fall of snow and rain. It crossed my mind a long time ago that the blood that cruises through my veins, pumped by my willing heart, are within gravity’s pull. I came to realize that Earth is Read more…
My journey is to learn each step of my way. I collect information and have a privileged memory. The core of my thought process is Hegelian. Thesis plus anti-thesis equal synthesis. Synthesis cannot be reached without walking the thesis and anti-thesis walk. It just won’t happen. This process drives my Read more…
As we hang around awaiting the next earthquake, fire, tornado or other natural or unnatural disaster taking place all over the planet it occurred to me, the since the Universe is now declared a thinking, sentient being by scientists, the planet appears to be telling us that our time here Read more…
It’s January 1st, 2020. I woke up thinking about the zodiac sign, Capricorn, and what may be of interest about it. Bits of research here and there rendered tidbits about goats , planets and peoples personality traits. (go ahead, yawn). Instantly my memory took a leap to a book I Read more…
According to US Government Census, 1860, 1.6% of rich plantation owners were able to convince the majority of southerners to fight a civil war for a cause that only reduced the value of their own labor and pay. The numerical part made me curious so I checked this information. A Read more…
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“The future for life on our planet without strong environmental leadership. A healthy environment is a basic human right.” The artist who put together the elements of this piece captured the imminent future which awaits us. The planet is on its death bed and we have run out of time Read more…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/octopus-aliens-scientists-theory-meteors-space-earth-cambrian-explosion-a8358631.html?amp#aoh=15741707733281&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s Are Octopuses aliens from outer space that were brought to Earth by meteeors. ” Octopuses are aliens.” That is the claim being made be a team of 33 researchers published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. They are not referring to aliens in the metaphysical sense but literal aliens from Read more…
A great and sad story. In 1959 the police were called to a segregated library in South Carolina when a 9 year old black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the doomed NASA space Read more…
