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Contents ~ Journal 1:

1) How to Make a Journal Entry

2) Popcorn in America

3) A Freediving Friendship

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~ Featured Content ~ Technology Evolution

~ Featured Content ~ Moby Dick ~ Trailer ~ 1956

~ Special Feature ~ Brandi Carlile = The Joke ~

S11~1: Trial and Error and Beyond

If trial and error is hard-wired into your system, your being, you will be experimenting with life

from moment to moment, making mistakes in a humble but unapologetic manner, adjusting to

these mistakes, and persevering until a (at least meager) solution is arrived upon. You might

sum it up as “try, fail, learn, and (hopefully) succeed. If you are Edison in search of a lightbulb

you might look at things differently: "I have not failed 10,000 times. I have not failed once.

I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work" as he is rumored to have said.

Some people just won’t admit their mistakes. Anyway, it was trial and error that led him on that

long mule ride into the light if you will.

If you take this idea one level up you find yourself face to face with the historical progression of

human technology. From stone tools to bronze to iron, from paper to printing to books to libraries,

the relentless employment of trial and error is the blood and sweat of slow progression. Countless

creative people and their dreams, ideas, and efforts made breakthrough after breakthrough

miraculously to the complex and sometimes unbelievable innovations we see today. There are

generations of computers and programs that have more or less taken up the human mantle

to the point where the sky is no longer the limit. Mars anyone?

1) In the ancient world the Sone Age lasted more than 2 million years (until 500 BCE) Describe. (here)

2) What advancements occurred in the classical/medieval period (500BCE to 1700CE). Describe (here)

3) The Industrial Revolution (1750 to 1900) then science now digital are here. Why/How so rapidly?

4) Would you rather be living in a time long ago or do you prefer the present tech age? Explain.

5) Is there anything in your daily life in which you have attempted to employ trial and error? Tell.

S11-2: A Whale of a Screenplay: Moby Dick

care of our health is not a piece of cake. Yet I don’t believe in diets.

1) Do you have a sleep routine? Do you have insomnia? What’s REM and Non-REM sleep?

2) What healthy food do you eat? How often do you have them? Do you have a meal routine? Tell.

3) What kind of activity do you recommend for overweight kids? How about overweight adults?

4) Do you think you are predisposed to an illness (genetically)? Explain. Is that disease common?

5) What are the factors that enable longevity? How much of this is genetic? (see this)

6) Do you do anything to maintain or improve your mental/emotional wellbeing? Explain.

S11~3: The Homeless and the Heartless

Let’s face it. Sometimes we have to raise, in discussion, difficult subjects alongside all the best events

in our lives. Anyway. In 2024, an estimated 150 million people worldwide were homeless and as many

as 1.6 billion people lived as squatters, refugees, or in temporary shelters (Wikipedia). When wild fires, earthquakes, or other natural disasters occur, countless people become homeless. War is worse.

I suppose anyone could become homeless. Wildfires in California, for example, made even wealthy

people homeless. Fires don’t give a damn about your status financial, political, or otherwise.

Golf clubs and mansions will burn down. Nature is blind in this regard.