2023-06-08: **Primary task**: connections between the neoliberal, capitalist market system, the current nation states of the world, and isolated and melancholy individualism seem numerous, and worthy of some exposition. These notes are a start at [...]

A retired data informatician, sociotechnical computer systems engineer, and chemist. Also an open access advocate and inveterate punster. When asked recently about what I value and my interests I said, with "Kindness, curiosity, honesty, and humor. I [...]

APAvar: Arundhati Roy (2020). AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.. Haymarket Books. Link: THE GRAVEYARD TALKS BACK, pp. 157-159 > I have often caught myself wondering -- if I were to be incarcerated or [...]

APAvar: Rosen, Jonathan (2000). The Talmud and The Internet: A journey between worlds. Picador, USA. Link: pages 9-10: > Consider a page of Talmud. There are a few lines of Mishnah, the conversation the Rabbis [...]

APAvar: Midgley, Mary (1992). Science As Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning. Routledge. Link: pages 1-2: > 1. **SALVATION AND THE ACADEMICS:-- SALVATION IS NO LONGER OFFICIAL** > The idea that we can [...]