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KEW Episode 102: The Acid Test. Looking to Nature to Address Life’s Big Questions

By kpluseiswise | December 8, 2022December 7, 2022 by kpluseiswise

I apologize that it has been nearly a month since my re-introduction post and Episode 101. I have been overwhelmed with thoughts, ideas, tangents, trailheads, and rabbit holes regarding this new direction for my blog/podcast/and YouTube channel. In this Episode, and over the next 4-5 I will start to unravel this rats’ nest into what I hope to be an interesting adventure. An acid test is a generic or colloquial term to refer to an…

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“Are you a winner or a loser?” Preview KEW Episode 95: Cooperation vs Competition

By kpluseiswise | April 27, 2022April 26, 2022 by kpluseiswise

I don’t care much for competition. I grew up bullied by jocks. I never really liked team sports. I was a smart kid, but I didn’t like how the other smart kids competed with each other for grades. When I was learning mandolin, bluegrass musicians welcomed me with open arms. There was no competition among players like I observed in the rock and roll world. Competing always felt bad and not competing felt good. When…

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“All Things in Moderation, or Indulge Your Every Whim?” Preview KEW Episode 94: Homeostasis

By kpluseiswise | April 20, 2022April 18, 2022 by kpluseiswise

Do you remember Homeostasis from high school biology? Probably not – but I bet you have a pretty good idea about what it means. Here’s what Webster-Mirriam says it means: : a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group Of course, then, we have to define equilibrium also: 1 a: a state of intellectual or emotional balance : trying to…

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It isn’t Capitalism, or Religion, or Politics. There’s Too Many People.

By kpluseiswise | April 2, 2022March 30, 2022 by kpluseiswise

It’s a numbers game I can almost always explain an observation, conflict, dilemma, or issue, with the ‘too many people’ explanation. I have as many degrees in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as one can get. I’m not bragging, just explaining my credentials for making the observation that the problems we face are because the Earth is too crowded. The concept of carrying capacity describes an idea that the availability of resources (food, space, shelter) are…

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KEW The Are vs Should Interview Series: Gretchen Winterkorn

By kpluseiswise | January 6, 2022 by kpluseiswise

If you are interested in therapy and coaching. Either for yourself, someone you love, or just because you think it’s cool. Gretchen Winterkorn is a wonderful person for you to meet, and you can check out her short video below. I am very lucky to see some cool people doing these KEW interviews, and I really enjoyed listening TO and talking WITH Gretchen. Relevant to the Are vs Should Problem, Gretchen and her family just…

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KEW Episode 71: Sustainability

By kpluseiswise | November 12, 2021 by kpluseiswise

From the dictionary: 1: able to be used without being completely used up or destroyed sustainable energy resources; a sustainable water supply 2: involving methods that do not completely use up or destroy natural resources sustainable agriculture/farming/techniques 3: able to last or continue for a long time sustainable development/growth Have you ever noticed the hustlers around you? You know, the people working two or three side gigs, driving Uber Eats every evening, and staying incredibly busy? Some of these folks get little…

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FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 39: The Growth Fallacy

By kpluseiswise | June 21, 2021 by kpluseiswise

“I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.” ― Dr Seuss,…

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FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 35: Beyond Science

By kpluseiswise | May 24, 2021 by kpluseiswise

Science is important to me. Though I am a trained scientist and truly embrace the scientific method as a great way to go about answering questions, I think we treat science, the method, and scientISTS as if they were something special. We/They’re not. It is very important to me to help people understand what science IS and, more importantly, what it IS NOT. The first point I try to make in this video, and whenever…

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KEW Episode 44: Unnatural Selection

By kpluseiswise | March 26, 2021October 3, 2023 by kpluseiswise

I am currently working on a larger project that will connect my background in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with personal growth, psychology, and finding more joy and fulfillment in our lives. In Episode 43 I introduce some evolutionary evidence that every individual human is born to discover their uniqueness (despite how ‘woo woo’ that sounds), and how NOT doing so goes against evolutionary theory. I didn’t coin the term Unnatural Selection. People have used it,…

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Preview KEW Episode 44: Unnatural Selection

By kpluseiswise | March 24, 2021 by kpluseiswise

In this episode I continue my larger project of explaining why humans are meant to realize their individual uniqueness. Here I explain what I call UN-natural selection, or the propensity for humans to deny their uniqueness and why this is something we most definitely should NOT be doing. Natural selection is simply how organisms respond to their environments through time. For the first few billion years or so animals modified their behaviors to suit their…