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Plying the Trade

Posted on April 12, 2021 by Steven Popkes
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(Picture from here.) Recently, a friend of mine lamented that he’d fallen into a particular way of writing books. He didn’t like it. He found it inefficient. The conversation left me wondering how I write books—or any fiction, really. I … Continue reading →

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Consideration of Works Past: Androids vs Blade Runner

Posted on March 15, 2021 by Steven Popkes
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Picture from here. I am, of course, talking about Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. There. Will. Be. Spoilers. … Continue reading →

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State of the Farm, February 2021: Snowbound

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Steven Popkes
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Up here in Massachusetts, we haven’t had much in the way of winter for the last couple of years. I mean we’ve had winter. There are days of below zero cold. The ground freezes. The heating bill goes up—we’re always … Continue reading →

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Think like a Remora

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Steven Popkes
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(Picture from here.) Back when I was in college, I worked briefly at the local food co-op. The co-op was the sort of shoestring business you could expect. A mix of volunteers that had different agendas such as the quality … Continue reading →

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Posted in Adaptaion, Nature, Research, Science, technology | Tagged enviroment, recyling, Steven Popkes | 1 Reply

Limbic Theater

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Steven Popkes
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I wrote the following some time back. But I think it’s worth updating and revisiting the subject. DecodeDC had a good episode on the neuroscience behind political advertising before it died. You can still get the podcast ifyou look for … Continue reading →

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Posted in Politics, Science | Tagged neurophysiology, Steven Popkes | 1 Reply

About the Weather

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Steven Popkes

  (video of cut trails after the 12/18/2020 snowstorm) I live in New England– Massachusetts, to be precise. We can expect comparatively short summers that usually span from some time in May to some time in September. We’re known for … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, Lifestyle, Nature, Worldbuilding, Writing life | Tagged climate, Steven Popkes, weather

Good Things from 2020

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Steven Popkes

(Picture from here.) I had a different entry primed for this day but, since it is the first of the year, it seemed to me I’d look at some interesting science that has happened in the last year. I set … Continue reading →

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Posted in Science | Tagged biology, physics, space, Steven Popkes

Magical Thinking

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Steven Popkes

  (Picture from here.) As I sit here and write this on 12/14/2020, the last few electors in the electoral college are voting. The last few states are Hawaii, California and Oregon– another 66 electoral votes, officially making Biden president-elect. This is … Continue reading →

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Posted in Adaptation, creativity, Science | Tagged biology, evolution, politics, Steven Popkes

Doom Fatigue

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Steven Popkes

  (Picture from here.) I am so tired of being… well, tired. I’m tired of spent hacks trying desperately to hold on to power. Tired of one side being outraged at the other only to find the other side just as outraged. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Science, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged dinosaurs, Mars, Moon, space, Steven Popkes

A Botched Kiridashi Knife and Other Stories

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Steven Popkes

I was thinking about many different topics for this blog. Some of them were political. Notably about there not being acceptance of voting reality. Or maybe the about Moderna’s new vaccine– or an even more nano-particle vaccine that does exceedingly … Continue reading →

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Posted in Crafts | Tagged knife, knife making, Steven Popkes

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