2021-01-20 04:33
The idea is quite simple: you get a bunch of people together in one place where they sit quietly for a couple of hours reading books.
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Cogito! is an extended essay on the life of the independent mind. It provides tips for independent learners, amateur scientists, scholars, artists; anyone who loves to think, learn, and create.
2020-07-23 06:05
News is a vital nutrient of the body politic. Without accurate information, democratic societies cannot survive, let alone produce the “alert and knowledgeable citizenry” necessa… Read More
2020-07-04 18:26
Next week’s observance of Thanksgiving might be very different had two amateur scientists not played key roles in drafting the two most important documents in American history.
The pos… Read More
2020-06-29 17:16
You don't need to make a big deal of citizen science. Start small. Don't wait.
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2020-06-26 20:16
If ever there was a time for starting a journal to record your own small part in all this, it is now.
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2020-06-22 17:24
Behind most great discoveries in natural science is a deep foundation of field work.
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2020-06-17 17:49
Apps are great helps for citizen science, but "old school" field notes remain a powerful tool for becoming a competent naturalist.
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2020-06-15 01:00
By Sheldon Greaves The national upheaval caused by the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin has dominated the headlines for the last few days, and rightly so. You can almos… Read More
2020-06-11 14:42
Seventy-five years ago this month an amateur weather-watcher from West Sussex published a landmark paper in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society directly linking the bur… Read More
2020-06-09 07:11
There are moments when you can feel in your bones that everything is about to change. The ancient Greeks had a word for this particular, special moment: Kairos.
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2019-01-29 18:05
The act of taking a life is deeply traumatizing, even for a trained soldier. Finally, a new film looks at this unrecognized cost of killing.
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2019-01-20 05:02
It's official: global warming is real. Now the debate has shifted to whether it's worth doing anything about it.
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2019-01-14 01:23
With a little help from some free software, you can turn YouTube videos into audio files, to listen to later at your leisure.
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2019-01-12 05:20
By Sheldon Greaves The quote above is a less well-known ancillary to Sun Tzu’s more famous quote: “Know your enemy as you know yourself, and in one hundred battles you will not b… Read More
2019-01-07 07:57
A look at some tools from the Intelligence Community for gathering and evaluating information.
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2019-01-04 00:43
Iain McGilchrist's "The Master and His Emissary" is one of the most important books to appear in at least twenty years.
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2018-12-29 21:09
Learn how intelligence professionals deal with active deception on a daily basis.
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2018-12-25 06:34
By Sheldon Greaves Note: This started as a Facebook post, but it seemed like a good idea to expand it just a little. While reading the ancient Greek version of Luke’s nativity last nig… Read More
2018-12-20 06:21
A surprising history of the myth of America's love affair with the automobile.
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2018-12-17 05:01
A warning against emerging Nazism from 1939 is unsettling reading today.
The post Books Received: Herman Rauschning, The Revolution of Nihilism; A Warning to the West (1939) appeared first o… Read More
2018-12-12 23:38
Everything is falling apart
We are all going to die horribly.
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2017-07-15 09:22
Note: I wrote this review quite awhile ago and posted it on the web site of the Society for Amateur Scientists. Both the organization and the web site no longer exist. I then reposted it on… Read More
2017-07-02 04:05
By Sheldon When circumstances permit, we like to garden and grow our own vegetables. This has not often been possible, but when it is, we try to give it our best shot. Actually, my spouse De… Read More
2017-06-14 21:03
By Sheldon Readers (both of you) will have noticed that I’ve been stuck on a particular theme lately, which is the problem of long-term unemployment and the larger problem of poverty… Read More
2017-06-05 00:20
By Sheldon Greaves A few years ago I read somewhere about a trend in the “gig economy” in which people who had been reduced to living in their cars or RVs roamed the country by t… Read More
2017-05-29 00:03
By Sheldon Greaves This post previously appeared in Unexpected Leisure, 13 February 2011. I’m reposting it here as a preface to some additional material I want to post on this and rela… Read More
2017-05-26 01:48
By Sheldon Over the last few years I have been involved in a long-term experiment that concerns the role to be played by lay scholars in a local church community. This began back in 2009 whe… Read More
2017-05-15 21:22
By Sheldon “A virgin book bears no offspring.” — Hasidic Proverb Continuing a theme I’ve been on for a while, which is a retro journey through the wonders of dead-tre… Read More
2017-05-11 02:41
By Sheldon Now that we have finally (I hope) found the place where we will spend the bulk of our remaining years, I am doing something that I have wanted to do for a long time: go through my… Read More
2017-05-04 08:15
By Sheldon I just finished reading On Tyranny. Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Yale historian Timothy Snyder. It is a very important book that everyone who harbors anxiety… Read More
2017-05-01 00:20
By Sheldon Now that we are entering our second year of home ownership in Oregon, we hope that this time we will be able to get a garden in. Last year I covered the skeleton of a carport with… Read More
2017-03-11 00:30
By Sheldon Recent news stories about how some evangelical Christians have embraced Donald Trump note that this acceptance is not just the latest example of politics making for strange bedfel… Read More
2017-02-27 09:38
By Sheldon When Trump released his ill-conceived and poorly-executed immigration order that stopped the flow of refugees from seven Muslim countries, he justified the action based on “… Read More
2016-12-04 05:21
By Sheldon The world of intelligence and intelligence analysis is very different from that of the usual scholar or knowledge worker, with the possible exception of the investigative journali… Read More
2016-11-14 21:56
Well, the unthinkable has happened. The most powerful and sophisticated Intelligence apparatus in the history of the Second Oldest Profession has fallen into the hands of a President-elect k… Read More
2016-09-30 01:10
By Sheldon Indulge me, if you will, in a thought experiment. Let’s suppose that I’m running for President of the United States, and that I really, really want to win. Further, le… Read More
2016-09-24 04:25
By Sheldon The title of this post is not meant as a rhetorical or even an ironic question. The accreditation process that ensures the quality of schools, colleges, and universities is a vita… Read More
2016-09-20 00:36
By Sheldon Recently I finally got around to reading Thomas Cahill’s delightful book How the Irish Saved Civilization, which, I should point out, does not actually address that com… Read More
2016-08-18 04:59
By Sheldon Photos by the author There is a stretch of coastline between Newport and Lincoln City that was a popular destination for our family while I was growing up, visits I agit… Read More
2016-07-05 04:18
There is an enduring appeal about the end of the world, especially if we can watch it happening to someone else. Movies that dwell on an apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic theme are even more t… Read More
2016-05-22 02:59
Lately I had the good fortune to hear from an old friend of mine, Richard “RJ” Jergenson, who, along with his brother Phil is one of the pioneers of the grid beam construction an… Read More
2016-04-08 04:32
By Sheldon A cluster of articles on higher education has prompted some reflections on higher ed in America, where it’s going, where it’s been, and what may become of it. The firs… Read More
2016-03-28 05:21
What follows is a document that I hope to publish as a short booklet. The purpose is to suggest making the institution of a “Scholar-in-Residence” a regular part of church parish… Read More
2015-12-05 21:16
By Sheldon Greaves I am a book addict. I have no desire whatsoever to curtail, restrain, repent, or–God forbid–recover from this delightful bondage. My spouse is likewise blessed… Read More
2015-11-26 06:38
By Sheldon Greaves Some of you may know that I have been producing a podcast called “Discovering the Old Testament” over at another of my websites, lafkospress.com. The podcast i… Read More
2015-11-18 04:26
By Sheldon Greaves As the global Islamist insurgency attempts to expand their war to a new level, it is a good idea to remind ourselves of a few things, particularly in light of the growing… Read More
2015-10-31 19:15
By Sheldon Greaves Note: this post originally appeared on the Citizen Scientists’ League website. With few other possible exceptions, the digital camera is probably the single most use… Read More
2015-10-29 23:29
By Sheldon Greaves Previously posted on Unexpected Leisure, 03 March 2011 My spouse and I have moved several times in our married life and each time it happens I am stunned by how much stuff… Read More
2015-10-21 22:42
This site is about learning for for pleasure, empowerment, and learning for its own sake. We have several projects and initiatives that will emerge as we bring this space up to speed.
Intert… Read More
2015-10-21 00:16
By Sheldon Greaves This post appeared previously on Unexpected Leisure, 12 February 2011 An article that appears in a recent issue of Yes! magazine caught my attention this morning. The arti… Read More
2015-10-04 22:10
By Sheldon Greaves There is a lot of talk these days comparing the United States to the late Roman Empire. Like Rome, we are an empire, which people more freely acknowledge than they did eve… Read More
2015-09-01 20:33
By Sheldon Greaves In addition to my posts on Cogito!, I have also posted to other blogs. One of these, Unexpected Leisure, grew out of my effort to make sense of losing my job as a result o… Read More
2015-08-29 00:22
By Sheldon Greaves This post appeared previously in Unexpected Leisure, 02 February 2011 The imperative to keep up with the Jones’ has driven many a consumer to spend beyond their mean… Read More
2015-08-27 23:17
By Sheldon Greaves Recently a conference of Islamic scholars meeting in Istanbul released a declaration on the subject of global warming and climate change. This landmark declaration comes i… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The recent revelations of NSA warrantless data collection is of interest mostly because one has to wonder why so many people seem surprised about this. It wasn’t a matter of reading te… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Yesterday evening we went to see Bay Choral Guild’s latest offering, this time a program of American works from the days of the Revolution through the 20th Century. A very enjoyable pr… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By Sheldon Over the weekend I ran across a very interesting interview with Noam Chomsky on the future of democracy and education in the 21st century. Chomsky is one of America’s… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
After a very, very long hiatus involving lots of futzing around and a steeper learning curve than I wanted, I’ve managed to move Cogito! from it’s original home on a friend of mi… Read More
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