http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos6191/Random thoughts and observations, photos, or whatever comes to mind, mostly personal stuff. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos6191/582891Here is a succinct and sober analysis of the current situation by one of the most astute observers of the economy, Teeka Tiwari, the Chief Investment Officer of the highly respected ‘Tycoon Report’. It always makes for excellent reading, even for non-tycoons, and I thought it might interest...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos6191/580043Our Ciel recommended a movie recently - An American Werewolf in London, which she described as really terrifying, and I shall definitely go and see it – I love terrifying movies. Corbin recommended something to me today called Idiocracy, in response to today’s entry in ‘Tidbits’, and I shall...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos6191/578352Here’s some consolation for those [yep, I’m one of them, as you probably already know], whose preferred candidate did not become President-elect on the 4 th. This is from the highly respected Tycoon Report, worthwhile reading even for those of us who are not tycoons, but who nonetheless find...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos6191/577857We are now coming to the third question in 1AM ’s comment, which, as you may recall, (or quite possibly not, lol ) asks for the connection between physics and love. As I suggested in my previous post, aside possibly from some purely physiological processes, physics has little if anything to say...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos6191/577509We now come to question # 2 as distilled from 1AM ’s comment, and, paradoxically, things get simultaneously simpler and more difficult. The simple part first: physics has to say nothing about human emotions, although psychology does, and, to an increasing degree, physiology and genetics. But that...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos6191/577183This is the second part to question #1 as distilled from 1AM ’s comment – if you’re still with me; and from the general discussion of what science is about I am moving to the more specific issue of the relationship between Science and human behavior. Science is fairly good at dealing with human...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos6191/576807The first of these posts will deal with 1AMHAN1’s comment and its implied questions. She commented in response to my post ‘Where Babies Come From’, http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos367/576455. That post consisted mainly of an interesting question and an answer that was poorly thought...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos6191/576528Well, we finally ‘set sail’ or ‘put to sea’ (‘to Lake ’?), in a manner of speaking. These cruises are never terribly long; they last just a few hours, which is why you don’t need cabins. There isn’t even enough time for a shipboard romance, as on longer cruises. Which is another reason why you...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos6191/575620Time to meet the ship! She’s the Jubilee Queen, out of Toronto. Here she is: Like any good cruise ship, she sails the islands – in this case the Toronto Islands. You didn’t know Toronto has islands? You may be forgiven... Some people say it’s just one island anyway, its parts divided by channels...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos6191/574738On Thanksgiving we went on a cruise, as we have done before. We do a lot of cruising – and now, since I am currently without a vessel of my own and since my friends have all hauled out their boats, it’s my only chance to feel a heaving deck under my feet. The trip to the port of embarkation was...