The regular Sunday afternoon phone calls to my mother ended just over a year ago. Mom passed last March. Years before, my parents retired and moved a thousand miles away from Chicago. I called on Father’s Day and Mother’s Day. These phone conversations and the many others had an endearing sameness to them When I…
You and I encounter false narratives throughout our lives. Such narratives may be innocuous, as in “The tooth fairy will give you a quarter for the tooth under your pillow.” Or, they may be conniving, as in Obama’s “You can keep your doctor”. We also encounter behavior-shaping constraints based on narratives. Forcing functions based on…
After seven months, NASA’s Perseverance Rover landed on Mars (2/18)/21). Percy “will look for signs of past life in a region of Mars where the ancient environment is believed to have been favorable for microbial life.” NASA provided pics and the first sounds of Mars. The NASA event is the product of science and a…