Putin’s Not the Problem
If Wikileaks and the Russian government had been promoting stories about pee tapes instead of Podesta, Donald Trump would not be President today.
Continue reading →Leaders That Gary Johnson Could Admire
Imagine Gary Johnson had a second chance to answer the question, “What world leader do you admire?” Published at SecularProgress. com
Continue reading →What Gary Johnson Should Have Said About Aleppo
Photo from Haaretz There’s an old saying that war is God’s way of teaching geography to Americans. These days, even that may not be enough. Now, because of Gary Johnson’s Aleppo gaffe, that city has become a little more familiar … Continue reading →
Big Data in the Context of Big History
This is a presentation I gave at an Institute for General Semantics Symposium in 2013. I definitely need to improve my story telling skills and narrative movement. But I’m still fascinated by the material. … Continue reading →
Purple Capitalism
Purple Capitalism and Social Justice Capitalism offers real opportunities to advance social justice. Across America and across the world, capitalist-driven innovation and entrepreneurship has generated profound benefits for human well-being. Yet, it’s also true that unbridled capitalism can lead to … Continue reading →
Crooked Sky
Posted this on FB not long ago, and now I’m cross-posting here. Things are moving fast on this planet. If we intend to get smarter about where we want to go, it’s important not to forget where we’ve been. I … Continue reading →
Big History Project Contest
I submitted a video to the “What Does it Mean to Human” contest sponsored by the Big History Project. Unfortunately, I didn’t make the cut for the top 25. That suprised me, because I thought had done a pretty good … Continue reading →
John Green knows what it means to be human
I’m a huge fan of the Big History Project, and just got the email about their new contest. It’s focused on getting people to create videos to answer the question, “What does it mean to be human?” There were three example videos, … Continue reading →
I’m not the Secular Progressive Reporter
There’s a website at http://paper.li/SecularProgress titled, “The Secular Progressive Reporter.†It runs unattended, aggregating content from preselected categories. @secularprogress ticks out updates. The Secular Progressive Reporter has no authority over this blog, I’m someone else… Craig Simon, @gitis on Twitter, SecularProgress on YouTube, and aliased … Continue reading →
Cracking the Nutshell on Free Will by Percent
Dolors, the physicist/mathematician/philosopher who posts as Cracking the Nutshell on YouTube, publishes more content than I can regularly follow, but this morning I watched one that was so good, I felt motivated to comment. She’s also a respectful critic of … Continue reading →