My dad was such a hardworking worker- family meant the world to him. I was the seventh baby in my family and my mother had me just after she turned 40. She was one of those high-risk pregnancy moms, and Im so g
Maybe not as a hobby, but, sometimes, you need to do that for work. And it can be very lonely. If you like reading, books will be friends you can take along with you wherever you go: Especially now, when you can have your whole library on your smartphone or tablet, being able to...
It was probably important for our survival thousands of years ago. Today, things are different, and it’s depressing, because deep down, weknow. We know that AI won’t save us from the climate crisis. It is just another technology add-on. We might delay the worst for a bit, maybe ev...
The impact of Jewish settlement in Hebron did not trouble him in the slightest. The paralysis forced upon communal life in the Old City, the loss of livelihood for hundreds of business owners, the daily violations to the human rights of local Palestinians; all this meant nothing to him. As ...
Found a couple places (took me a minute to figure out what they meant - sort of thick at times). uppercase to lowercase in bash on a mac bash lowercase or uppercase strings Here is the code: ### https://linuxhint.com/bash_lowercase_uppercase_strings/ ### upper-case the passed...
More fiction, maybe based on one of the many humanitarian crises unfolding. I’m trying to follow the novelist’s dictum: “make something beautiful out of something ugly,” transforming tragedy into art. It’s another way to memorialize the great struggles for justice. An...
On the other side of the courtyard is Knödel Kitchen, home of my first Bavarian dumpling. I won't pretend to be an expert but I thought it was delicious! A nice little variety of dumplings and sauces meant that we each tried something unique. I had the spinach dumpling with beet an...
Although this attempt proved influential on the future of philosophy of mind, consciousness was quite a new discussion topic in Locke's day and thus, it was mostly unclear as to what Locke exactly meant by it. Many assumed that by consciousness Locke referred to memory and th...