Jim Wheeler
BS, USNA, Annapolis, 1959; MSA, The Geo. Washington U., 1975; Submariner, Commander, USN, 1959 - 1981; Aerospace battery engineer & mgr., 1981 - 1999; Political affiliation: Mainly of the Democratic persuasion but not a fan of the extremes on either side.
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Monthly Archives: September 2011
This Is Your Brain On Spirituality
The evolution of the human brain has produced complex creatures, part rational and part metaphysical. When I think of rational side of humanity I think of scientists, people like Galileo, Newton, Curie, Darwin and Einstein. When I think of the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
22 Comments
The Demise of Tradition
Tradition. It’s a great thing, is it not? From Fiddler on the Roof to the U.S. Navy to the United States Postal Service. Wait – the Post Office? Well, not really – the USPS has announced the end of a … Continue reading
Old Dog, New Tricks
My blogging friend Indiana Jen has posted an interesting link to a National Geographic article about “The Adolescent Brain”, concluding that although the brain grows very little after the age of 12, it undergoes profound organizational and even structural changes … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Woodward
Tagged Adolescence, aging, Apple, Brain, brain aging, Brain damage, brain health, Dementia, Halo, Microsoft, National Geographic, National Geographic Society
33 Comments
A Simple Picture
Trying to make sense of economics, the dismal science, is a pretty thankless task, especially with the sharp political divide in Washington and the myriad ways of expressing statistics. Nevertheless, with the Great Recession and stubbornly high unemployment, economics is … Continue reading
On War
Why do we call it the War on Terror? This “conflict” is very different from the other “wars” in America’s history. So, I decided to make a list of the qualities that I think make it different from the others: … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, War
Tagged Al-Qaeda, American culture, Culture, media influence, Middle East, secrecy, Top Secret America, United States, War on Drugs, War on Poverty, War on Terror, World War II
31 Comments
A Memoir of Dreams
There is an old saying: “As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.” It means of course that, like the butterfly story embedded in chaos theory, small changes in one’s youth can profoundly affect later behavior. Apropos of this … Continue reading
Money 101
Money. It is essential to civilization. Without money we would all return to being hunter/gatherers, or at least to a system of barter and trade. But there you are – as soon as you start to barter and trade you … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Offset and Fed Up
We Globe bloggers have been sparring over the national debt now for more than a year but are no closer than ever to agreeing on much of anything about it. Anson Burlingame posted recently about commentary on Rick Perry’s book, … Continue reading
Still Skeptical After All These Years 