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December 2013 – Probaway.wordpress.com – web posts

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  1. Camouflage in the forest

  2. A perfect example of discovering an unknown unknown

  3. Failures of camouflage – Symmetry

  4. Failure to see unknown unknowns – voluntary blindness

  5. Cuttlefish and the search for unknown unknowns.

  6. Selection strategies for creating various camouflages.

  7. Eveish selection’s genetic foundations.

  8. Comments on TIME’s Person of the Year 100 list

  9. How your forethought can avoid a disaster.

  10. New tools for seeing through camouflage.

  11. TIME Person of the Year 2013 is Pope Francis

  12. Life at the speed of light by J. Craig Venter – review

  13. A Brief History of Thought – Luc Ferry – review

  14. Defeating the camouflage of non-moving animals.

  15. Progress into the unknown unknowns.

  16. Approaching unknown unknowns from the “mess”.

  17. Jungle Bugs – by Bruce Purser – review – Unknowns

  18. Metaphors as a tool for exploring into the unknown unknowns.

  19. Synonyms as a tool for searching for unknown unknowns

  20. A theory of DNA life based on food energy versus risk balance.

  21. The Omega Point, Technological Singularity and Fooday.

  22. Do humans have evolutionary advantages over insects?

  23. Sex on Six Legs by Marlene Zuk – review

  24. What’s wrong with faith?

  25. The Art of War by Sun Tzu – 11 – Revisited in 2013 by Charles Scamahorn

  26. Google’s Map To Global Domination – review

  27. What’s wrong with hope?

  28. What’s wrong with charity?

  29. New names for the non-visible wavelengths of light.

  30. Surround your unknowns with known facts.

  31. It appears I’ve gone tits up, but I ain’t dead yet.

November 2013 – Probaway.wordpress.com – web posts

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  1. Alfred Thayer Mahan – Philosophers Squared Off In Quotations

  2. Philosophers Squared Off In Quotations – Chronological Index of Philosophers

  3. When does a strategy of overshoot work better?

  4. Forced-air home heating is noisy, cold and drafty

  5. How to discover unknown things and new worlds.

  6. Starting the search for Probaway Person of the year 2013?

  7. A journey into the unknown unknowns.

  8. Explorations into the theory of camouflage.

  9. The Inner Citadel by Pierre Hadot – Book review

  10. The Evolution of Cooperation – Book review

  11. Our sick Ponderosa pine tree comes down

  12. Camouflage – The methods of visual hiding

  13. How to see through camouflage

  14. Seeing through camouflage into the unknown unknowns.

  15. What might an unknown unknown look like?

  16. What unknown unknowns should we avoid?

  17. What’s in a name like the Higgs Boson?

  18. How accurate must information be before we act on it?

  19. Seeing through data, information, and facts to right actions.

  20. How to eat chocolate

  21. Seeking steps from the known knowns to the unknown unknowns.

  22. Make the unknown unknowns into new and useful things.

  23. Start looking for the unknown unknowns !

  24. A Thanksgiving tribute to women.

  25. The Art of War by Sun Tzu – 10 – Revisited in 2013 by Charles Scamahorn

  26. Seeking the unknown unknowns behind veils.

  27. The Closing of the Western Mind by Freeman – Book review

  28. Seeking the unknown unknowns behind walls.

  29. Seeking the unknown unknowns – expanding the search

  30. The search for unknown unknowns will have its greatest feast in humans.

October 2013 – Probaway.wordpress.com – web posts

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  1. Update on my life risks as of my 78th birthday.

  2. Philsophers Squared – Auguste Comte

  3. Philosophers Squared – Charles Darwin

  4. Philosophers Squared – John Dewey

  5. Philosophers Squared – Gottlob Frege

  6. Philosophers Squared – Daniel Dennett

  7. Philosophers Squared – Sigmund Freud

  8. Philosophers Squared – Kurt Gödel

  9. Philosophers Squared – Georg Hegel

  10. Philosophers Squared – Christopher Hitchens

  11. Philosophers Squared – Edmund Husserl

  12. Philosophers Squared – Carl Jung

  13. Philosophers Squared – John Maynard Keynes

  14. Philosophers Squared – Thomas Kuhn

  15. Philosophers Squared – Gottfried Leibniz

  16. Philsophers Squared – Claude Levi-Strauss

  17. Philosophers Squared – Ernst Mach

  18. Philosophers Squared – Vladimir Lenin

  19. Philosophers Squared – Nicolas Malebranche

  20. Philosophers Squared – Thomas More

  21. Philosophers Squared – G. E. Moore

  22. Philosophers Squared – Thomas Paine

  23. Philosophers Squared – John Searle

  24. Philosophers Squared – David Chalmers

  25. The Art of War by Sun Tzu – 9 – Revisited in 2013 by Charles Scamahorn

  26. Philosophers Squared – Blaise Pascal

  27. A typical Bend, Oregon, Sunday for me.

  28. Gilbert Ryle – Philosophers Squared Off In Quotations

  29. Michael Sandel – Philosophers Squared Off In Quotations

  30. Courage Under Fire – by James Bond Stockdale – review

  31. Charles Peirce – Philosophers Squared Off In Quotations

September 2013 – Probaway.wordpress.com – web posts

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  1. Philosophers Squared – George Berkeley

  2. Philosophers Squared – Plato

  3. Philosophers Squared – Protagoras

  4. Philosophers Squared – Thomas Hobbes

  5. Philosophers Squared – Denis Diderot

  6. Philosophers Squared – Pericles

  7. Philosophers Squared – Henri Bergson

  8. Philosophers Squared – Friedrich Schelling

  9. Philosophers Squared – John Stuart Mill

  10. Philosophers Squared – Ferdinand de Saussure

  11. Philosophers Squared – Bertrand Russell

  12. Philosophers Squared – John Locke

  13. Philosophers Squared – Rudolf Carnap

  14. South Lake Tahoe high water on the Upper Truckee River

  15. Sunset over Lake Tahoe

  16. 60th High-school reunion – Amazing in many ways

  17. Seventy years in the Lake Tahoe region

  18. Kant’s Categorical Imperative is absurd

  19. What is Ancient Philosophy? by Pierre Hadot – comment on individual choices

  20. A brief stop in Adin, California

  21. What is Ancient Philosophy? by Hadot – comments page 75-6

  22. The Open Society and Its Enemies, vol. 1, Plato by Karl R. Popper – review

  23. We are at risk of becoming slaves.

  24. A relaxing day.

  25. The Art of War by Sun Tzu – 8 – Revisited in 2013 by Charles Scamahorn

  26. What is mind versus soul?

  27. Masters of the Planet – by Ian Tattersall – book review

  28. Philosophers Squared – Jacques Derrida

  29. Philosophers Squared – Montesquieu

  30. Philosophers Squared – Noam Chomsky

August 2013 – Probaway.wordpress.com – web posts

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  1. Philosophers Squared – Friedrich Engels

  2. Philosophers Squared – Alfred North Whitehead

  3. Philosophers Squared – Galileo Galilei

  4. Philosophers Squared – Democritus

  5. Philosophers Squared – William James

  6. Philosophers Squared – Émile Durkheim

  7. Philosophers Squared – Lev Vygotsky

  8. Scarcity – Why Having Too Little Means So Much – Book review

  9. Philosophers Squared – Voltaire

  10. Philosophers Squared – W. V. O. Quine

  11. Philosophers Squared – Garrett Hardin

  12. Philosophers Squared – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  13. Philosophers Squared – Alan Watts

  14. Philosophers Squared – Isaac Newton

  15. Philosophers Squared – Mark Twain

  16. Philosophers Squared – Antisthenes

  17. Philosophers Squared – Thales of Miletos

  18. Philosophers Squared – B. F. Skinner

  19. Philosophers Squared – Duns Scotus

  20. Philosophers Squared – 147 Delphic maxims

  21. Philosophers Squared – Friedrich Schiller

  22. Philosophers Squared – Thomas Aquinas

  23. Philosophers Squared – Theophrastus

  24. Philosophers Squared – Antoine Arnauld

  25. The Art of War by Sun Tzu – 7 – Revisited in 2013 by Charles Scamahorn

  26. Philosophers Squared – Arthur Schopenhauer

  27. Philosophers Squared – Aristotle

  28. Philosophers Squared – St. Augustine of Hippo

  29. Philosophers Squared – J. L. Austin

  30. Philosophers Squared – Francis Bacon

  31. Philosophers Squared – Jeremy Bentham

July 2013 – Probaway.wordpress.com – web posts

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  1. Philosophers Squared – Seneca

  2. Philosophers Squared – Alfred Russel Wallace

  3. Philosophers Squared – Thomas Reid

  4. Philosophers Squared – Niccolo Machiavelli

  5. Philosophers Squared – Friedrich Nietzsche

  6. Philosophers Squared – Mary Wollstonecraft

  7. Philosophers Squared – Zeno of Citium

  8. Philosophers Squared – Plutarch

  9. Philosophers Squared – Hypatia of Alexandria

  10. Philosophers Squared – Paul Feyerabend

  11. Philosophers Squared – Michel Foucault

  12. Philosophers Squared – Martin Heidegger

  13. Philosophers Squared – Alan Turing

  14. Philosophers Squared – Ray Kurzweil

  15. Philosophers Squared – Cicero

  16. Philosophers Squared – Albert Einstein

  17. Philosophers Squared – Alfred Tarski

  18. Philosophers Squared – Karl Popper

  19. Philosophers Squared – Jean-Paul Sartre

  20. Philosophers Squared – Simone de Beauvoir

  21. Philosophers Squared – Epicurus

  22. Philosophers Squared – Ludwig Wittgenstein

  23. Philosophers Squared – Diogenes of Sinope

  24. Philosophers Squared – Cosimo de Medici

  25. The Art of War by Sun Tzu – 6 – Revisited in 2013 by Charles Scamahorn

  26. Philosophers Squared – Baruch Spinoza

  27. Philosophers Squared – Charles Scamahorn

  28. Philosophers Squared – Empedocles

  29. Philosophers Squared – Plotinus

  30. Philosophers Squared – Søren Kierkegaard

  31. Philosophers Squared – Anaxagoras

June 2013 – Probaway.wordpress.com – web posts

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  1. On the performance stage again.

  2. Philosophers Squared – Copernicus

  3. Philosophers Squared – Xenophanes

  4. Philosophers Squared – Philo

  5. Philosophers Squared – William of Occam

  6. Philosophers Squared – Moritz Schlick

  7. Philosophers Squared Off In Quotations – Alphabetical Index of Philosophers

  8. One billion hungry – by Gordon Conway

  9. Philosophers Squared – Ayn Rand

  10. Philosophers Squared – Anaxagoras

  11. Philosophers Squared – Albert Camus

  12. Philosophers Squared – René Descartes

  13. Philosophers Squared – A. J. Ayer

  14. Philosophers Squared – Adam Smith

  15. Philosophers Squared – Alfred E. Newman

  16. Philosophers Squared – Immanuel Kant

  17. Philosophers Squared – What is PHILOSOPHY ?

  18. Philosophers Squared – Heraclitus of Ephesus

  19. Philosophers Squared – Anselm

  20. Philosophers Squared – Parmenides

  21. Philosophers Squared – Ambrose Bierce

  22. A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine – Review

  23. Philosophers Squared – Epictetus

  24. Philosophers Squared – Erasmus

  25. The Art of War by Sun Tzu – 5 – Revisited in 2013 by Charles Scamahorn

  26. Philosophers Squared – David Hume

  27. Philosophers Squared – Chrysippus

  28. Philosophers Squared – Karl Marx

  29. Human origins based on throwing rocks.

  30. Philosophers Squared – Marcus Aurelius

May 2013 – Probaway.wordpress.com – web posts

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  1. Nature magazine reports on how to feed a billion more people.

  2. Some philosophy is bunk because you can’t cure stupid.

  3. The world was too perfect for me today. Then bam, I started shrieking!

  4. Probaway’s views of existential risks to humanity

  5. Atheism is a luxury

  6. What are the unknown unknowns?

  7. What is a real human being?

  8. Truth, truthiness, lies and spin.

  9. Ray Kurzweil thinks ahead.

  10. Capitalism and infinite growth

  11. Myths are relevant to our daily lives

  12. The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca

  13. What a sorry fate we humans must live with

  14. A reminiscence of Berkeley’s People’s Park

  15. SARS, H5N9 and AIDS are the nasty four letter words

  16. I am in part an Epicurean

  17. Ikigai is a Japanese personal reason for living

  18. Making Habits, Breaking Habits – by Jeremy Dean

  19. How to measure good and bad behavior.

  20. Philosophers Squared – Imhotep

  21. The Sun is God just like the Ancients said.

  22. Philosophers Squared – Zeno of Elea

  23. Explorations of the examined life

  24. Stop itching now !!!

  25. The Art of War by Sun Tzu – 4 – Revisited in 2013 by Charles Scamahorn

  26. Philosophers Squared – Introduction

  27. Philosophers Squared – Socrates

  28. Philosophers Squared – The Pictures

  29. Guiding principles for success in life.

  30. How positive should you be?

  31. MERS-CoV virus gets a name.

April 2013 – Probaway.wordpress.com – web posts

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  1. Improvisation standup is for everyone, including you.

  2. Faith in the unobservable versus knowledge of the knowable.

  3. On the pattern of religious arguments versus scientific ones.

  4. Hope is a good thing sometimes and sometimes bad.

  5. A way to avert world catastrophe

  6. A new mind for humanity

  7. Happy, healthy, wise and wealthy updated.

  8. Why we humans need laws.

  9. Spiritual Evolution by George Vaillant – Book review

  10. Why was the gospel of prosperity so successful?

  11. The Art of Procrastination by John Perry – Book review

  12. A modern approach to Othello, by Shakespeare

  13. Urine to the rescue of an indolent person.

  14. Personal experiments on happiness, contentment and joy

  15. Approaching alcohol like it’s a life calling

  16. The Nature of Things by Lucretius, translated by Stallings – Book review

  17. Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino, translated by George Martin

  18. Human morality isn’t up to the problems humans create

  19. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams – Book review

  20. Boston Marathon bombing analyzed using Lonnie Athens’ system of violentization.

  21. Why do women have children ?

  22. HOWL by Allen Ginsberg – Book review.

  23. Which way do I jump when I see a tiger in a mirror – behind me?

  24. To read or not to read, that is the question.

  25. The Art of War by Sun Tzu – 3 – Revisited in 2013 by Charles Scamahorn

  26. Ray Kurzweil’s singularity has arrived.

  27. I am conscious but I have doubts about you.

  28. The current human situation is wonderful but collapse isn’t.

  29. What is NEWS? What is it good for?

  30. A New Green History of the World by Clive Ponting

March 2013 – Probaway.wordpress.com – web posts

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  1. COSMO – Central Oregon Student Medical Outreach

  2. Seeing problems has its downside.

  3. Humans need variety to their problems to thrive.

  4. Choose to make the right choices in your life trajectory!

  5. The Humanist Manifesto 1

  6. Will in the World – Shakespeare – Greenblatt – Book review

  7. What, where and when were the times to LIVE !!!

  8. The Oregon Experiment – Alexander – Book review

  9. Stephen Greenblatt visits Bend, Oregon

  10. Teilhard de Chardin and his Omega Point

  11. Do the right thing, but what is the right thing?

  12. Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein – Book review.

  13. An epiphany is obvious after you see it.

  14. Karma is a useful concept.

  15. Spillover by David Quammen – Book review – AIDS Ebola SARS Nipah H5N1 Q

  16. Schermerhorn’s ride from the Schenectady massacre

  17. Triumphs of Experience by George Vaillant – Book review

  18. David McCandless brings Shakespeare to Bend, Oregon

  19. Jared Diamond’s constructive paranoia is a useful concept.

  20. Hope versus optimism

  21. Would our economy collapse if people only bought what they needed?

  22. Taming of the Shrew – Three viewings in three days.

  23. The Art of War by Sun Tzu – 0 – Revisited in 2013 by Charles Scamahorn

  24. How to make a permanent human society.

  25. The Art of War by Sun Tzu – 2 – Revisited in 2013 by Charles Scamahorn

  26. A new view of evolution in progress

  27. Flexing your mind is infinitely difficult and valuable.

  28. How can I help you?

  29. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – Book review

  30. How to heat your building forever for almost nothing.

  31. I need to tell more stories.