Being monolinguistic, I can only possibly think the thoughts that I think, And can only possibly dream the dreams that I dream, In the one and only language that I know. Which begs the question, Do most bilinguists out there think and dream in both of their languages, Or mainly their first language, Or mostly their currently most used language? Which begs the further question, How did our prehistoric ancestors think, How’d they think before there was even language to think wi

How do we know right from wrong? How do we know right from wrong? At first glance this might sound counterintuitive, but my guess is that...

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun The sun racin' round, to come up behind you again The other nine of the top ten placers in the men’s aged 45 to 49 marathon-bracket we're all smiling, but Tim Maudlin scowled during the entire group photo session. He was a popular teacher that taught astronomy at a local high school. And noticed three past students approaching from afar with large helium balloons. All chanting

Eight-year-old Sally is sitting by the tree on Christmas morning by her mountain of just-opened presents. Her parents now in the...

Inside the lobby of the Seminole County DMV, the directory is a hologram scale model of the building. On it, Jennifer finds that the...

History doesn't repeat itself, but it sometimes rhymes. Charles Altree feels quite foggy and has no idea where he is or how he got here. He’s not a sleepwalker, but he’s just woken up at some front door of some place that looks like a bar. It’s hard to see because it’s pitch-black outside, but he turns to look out towards the parking lot and neighboring places up and down and across the street trying to find something recognizable. Not only is nothing recognizable, there is n

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If you could shrink small enough to live inside of one H₂O molecule, Just you and 3 atoms all contained inside the same single water particle, And if you lived on 1 electron orbiting 1 of those 3 atoms,  And if you were as small to that electron that you are now to Earth, From that electron’s surface - To your naked eye, the nucleus of the atom that you're orbiting would look strikingly like the sun,  the center of the 2 other atoms would resemble 2 stars out there dotting th

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 Conspiracy theory type thinking arrests all clear thinking and reason,  Knee-jerk conspiracy theory type thinking is the con’s piracy of reality, The con artist could be anybody, The con artist could be you or me,  The con artist is anybody that fools themself into thinking,  That all awful acts of terror always require, Deeper complexity and plotting, With wider-spread collaboration and secrecy, And the sure-fire cover-up of inside-job evidence, Plus als

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. ...

Capitalism is the utmost least worst economic system possible. Capitalism is natural, and therefore the only sustainable economic system possible. Sustainable because it’s self-propelled. Self-propelled because of the laws of nature. The laws of nature meaning; capitalism is a direct output of the most universal and by far strongest instinct that all living things have in common, which is self-preservation, also known as survival instinct. The instinct of self-preservation is

"Paradoxical causal loops are the ultimate mind-bending concept of systems thinking, where the cause becomes the effect and the effect becomes the cause." - Donella Meadows “Take your medicine!” was a nagging command we all hated as kids, but for alcoholics this sounds like the world’s nicest invitation. With substance addiction, the medication for the treatment of its symptoms is paradoxically the very cause of the “disease” itself. Alcoholism is the “disease”; yet alcohol i

We believe in one Universe,     the  Atoms, they’re all mighty,      the makeup of matter and Earth,     and of all that is, seen and...

Our big bright sun is located eight light-minutes away, It hides from us at the end of each day. Each morning returning, Orange and burning. That faithful fiery ball of lava, Risin’ from the horizon like a fresh cup of java. The sun’s light hitting your face, Just spent eight minutes racing through space. Like the crack of the bat at the ballpark that you see, but don’t hear till one second later, Although the sunlight’s time-delay is eight minutes greater. If the sun turned

On rare occasions I was lucky enough to find a book back in the 300′s. This said, reading a book in the year 300 was a pain in the ass. ...

Bob is frustrated. He is sitting at his writing desk, and staring at the blinking cursor on his blank Word Document. To this day he has...

Because I won this contest on Thanksgiving Day 2016, freeditorial.com owns the digital rights to this story for 10 years (until...

Microscopes and telescopes show you strikingly similar patterns. Microscopes show you atoms, each composed of a nucleus being orbited by...

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson— All plants and animals are driven by instincts, including...