Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
This article is about the relationships between children and their parents. Human parents typically spend years raising their offspring, unlike shark parents, who do not care for their young after birth. Sharks have different procreation and parenting practices. Male sharks impregnate females quite aggressively, and the females have the scars to prove it as the…
Peter Thiel and Elon Musk were among PayPal’s founders who injected their DNA into the company’s operating procedures. Many of us may have used PayPal while doing business with eBay or other companies that have PayPal as an option. I used PayPal once to buy a used golf driver on eBay. I used them only…
I told many of my friends and relatives about a new AI research tool called Perplexity. It does not get the press or billionaire coverage of the more famous AIs such as ChatGPT, CoPilot, Boomi, OpenAI, or China’s Deep Seek. However, I have been using it and just got word that a new version is…
I noticed that Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, was becoming popular, so I decided to ask it a “softball” question and compare its responses with those of other AIs. Having studied my distant cousin’s genealogy, I knew the answer to the “softball” question, “Which member of Elon Musk’s family was Elon named after?” You would assume…
We may recall that during COVID, Musk borrowed money from the Biden administration to keep Tesla from going bankrupt. He was also so committed to his work that he slept in the factory. Today, he sleeps in the Lincoln Bedroom in Trump’s White House instead of the factory floor. How his life has changed in…
All humans fall along a behavioral spectrum of friendliness and hostility. This spectrum is learned and usually transmitted from one generation to another. It would be pure speculation to associate this spectrum with different modes of living. One could say that the hunter-gatherers of 3000 BCE would be more aggressive and unfriendly to outsiders, while…
This historical snippet begins with the blood lust of duels over 200 years ago. The most famous duel between Alexander Hamilton Sr and Aaron Burr Jr was presaged by a duel between Hamilton’s son, Philip Schuyler Hamilton, and George Eacker in 1801. The 19-year-old Philip died in the duel. It was not a good omen…
While the past is immutable, our recollections can fade and be twisted by those who purposefully distort the facts. One example of those currently distorting the facts is the legion of anti-vaxxers. Who needs a vaccine when we can drink a magic drink or hope for the best? While researching a branch of my ancestry,…
Just when so many are worried about transgenderization, we are witnessing the transnationalization of the USA. The USA was founded on democracy, freedom, and liberty for ALL. However, America is being transformed into a country based on autocracy, enslavement, and subjugation controlled by an oligarchy. This has been a slow, silent transformation that seeks to…
I remember when conservatives were against criminal drug operations and stood for law and order. However, it appears that conservatives have wittingly or unwittingly rewired their brains to embrace a lawless leader in exchange for what? I would like to understand the morality of their new allegiance to criminality. Democrats and Independent politicians have committed…