Category Archives: Ponderings

Cloning Jaguars

I have recently read a newspaper article on the proposed cloning of endangered species including the Jaguar of Brazil and got to thinking about the ramifications of the possible results. We are at a time in human scientific development that we now have the knowledge and means to perform such a procedure. The question (which has been asked many times… (more…)

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Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cloning Jaguars I have recently read a newspaper article on the proposed cloning of endangered species including the Jaguar of Brazil and got to thinking about the ramifications of the possible results. We are at a time in human scientific development that we now have the knowledge and means to perform such a procedure. The… (more…)

Armistice Day

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month… 1919 20/20 hindsight isn’t!

Children

November 5, 2012, 12:01 am62 Comments Embracing Children for Who They Are By JANE E. BRODY Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities and temperaments that nurturing parents may be able to foster or modify, but can rarely reverse. Perhaps… (more…)

Ocean

The ocean covers 2/3rds of the surface of the earth, it is water – yet it is the earth’s most vast desert… There is water, but you cannot drink it – there is food growing, but almost all of it is deep beyond your reach.  There is no shade and during the doldrums of the air above there are no… (more…)