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Comment on A Lake of Fire: The Economics of Beauty by Morsels for the mind – 7/6/2013 › Six Incredible Things Before Breakfast

Morsels for the mind – 7/6/2013 › Six Incredible Things Before Breakfast — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:01:13 +0000

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Comment on A Lake of Fire: The Economics of Beauty by Kim

Kim — Thu, 30 May 2013 21:52:20 +0000

Yes. Soda ash is manufactured as well as mined. Synthetic soda ash accounts for 75% of the global supply. However natural soda ash mining and processing costs are significantly cheaper so countries with natural sources are always eager to exploit them. The most exploited reserves in the world are in Wyoming where soda ash is mined in its solid form as the mineral, trona. -K~

Comment on A Lake of Fire: The Economics of Beauty by Megan M

Megan M — Thu, 30 May 2013 17:08:19 +0000

Simply amazing, the interconnectedness of nature that brings such beauty, and that create natural resources that we use everyday. Kim, in your research did you discover whether there are groups that are actually trying to create soda ash, as opposed to mining it?

Comment on Exploring the Mind of the Mountain Gorilla by Bill Swan

Bill Swan — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:30:52 +0000

Great blog on an important issue. A further piece to ponder: if Silverbacks have learned to dismantle snares is one thing. Are there examples of other (naturally occurring) dangers that they have learned to render harmless? Is this one example a one-off response to man, or just another step in their dealing with life? What other dangers do they avoid? Are they any they actively work on or disable? Just wondering. Much to think of here in the concept of forming intent, abstraction, learning and teaching.

Comment on Water Apes: Carrying the torch for a failed theory by AlgisKuliukas

AlgisKuliukas — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:49:14 +0000

Zach, you are not being very smart if you have swallowed Jim Moore’s gossip so uncritically.

Please read my critique of his masquerading web site.

http://www.riverapes.com/AAH/Arguments/JimMoore/JMHome.htm

Note that whereas Jim has just six (out of nearly 70,000) words about my critique, almost every page of mine points to the corresponding page on his, so that readers can check for themselves.

Algis Kuliukas

Comment on A Dozen Ways to Stop an Elephant by George Mathew

George Mathew — Thu, 02 May 2013 05:12:17 +0000

Perhaps a combination of various methods may be required to ward off elephants. How about using thorny Aloe succulents?

Comment on Water Apes: Carrying the torch for a failed theory by anthrosciguy

anthrosciguy — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:30:35 +0000

You need to reread my page on Wegener and why the AAT/Hers using him as an analogy doesn’t work.

And neither Hardy or Morgan were ignored. That’s the story she’s told as part of her myth-building which makes up a sort of PR push she’s been engaged in for decades, but it doesn’t fit the facts. They both got hundreds of cites from academic scholars even though their work was published in pop outlets. This is a very large number for such work. In fact Hardy’s one small article got around 10% of the cites he ever got, even though he did very good work on other subjects (which led to a knighthood). What happened was they weren’t agreed with — that’s very different from not being ignored, but it doesn’t fit with the myth Morgan wanted

BTW, although I do not have formal academic credentials in the subject (just like the AAT/H’s major proponents) many people who do have such credentials, if formal credentials matter to you. And I wrote an entry on the subject for the Sage Encyclopedia of Anthropology.

Comment on The Stuff of Stars by Bill Swan

Bill Swan — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:28:58 +0000

Great. Thanks. This energized a Monday morning.

Comment on The Wisdom of Wolves: A Reason for Hope by I’ve got your missing links right here (6 April 2013) – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:00:39 +0000

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Comment on Friday Fiction Facts: Swamps, Marshes & Bogs by Bill Swan

Bill Swan — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:51:29 +0000

KIM: but is there such a thing as a bog swamp? I’m thinking of a place near where I grew up in Oxford County with what we called The Sink Hole — a swamp area with trees, almost always boggy. Sixty years ago a gravel road resting on corduroy crossed it. My grandfather told of a time sixty years before that when a team of horses was pulling a threshing machine across this when the whole road flipped, pulling the horses and the machine into a boggy grave, never to be seen.

I’ve always wondered: is this real or was gramps pulling my leg? Could a swamp be that boggy?