This Friday I will release my ‘last’ Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom podcast and video. Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom has produced 100 episodes and 30+ interviews in over two years. As of this week, I will take a break from producing new podcast and YouTube episodes. This site will remain live, and the podcast and YouTube episodes will remain online and remain in all podcast servers and apps. The spirit of this website and…
Everything about our ‘biological-ness’ is related to change. The developmental stages are all changes. We all grow bigger through life. We go through a brief period of fast growth, then switch over to a period of reproduction. These things are true for all life forms. We share, with ALL biology, this unanimous and ubiquitous feature. We change. Evolution is simply change through TIME. The universe also changes. The laws of thermodynamics essentially describe these changes.…
Do you believe in Evolution? What if I told you that all Evolution says is that ‘things change’? Can you argue with that? Kind of hard to argue. Because things change. Not much is true or guaranteed in life. See my first Episode on Facts for a thorough analysis of that tenet. But one thing you can bet on is that things change. And I’ve always wondered why people resist the Theory of Evolution when…
You ever look up at the stars at night and feel really small? Somehow gazing up a the vast emptiness of space, and realizing that these teeny little blips are actually ginormous stars is humbling. I hope you enjoy that feeling as much as I do. Most humans, however, don’t really ‘get’ the vastness of space. The range of size from tiny atoms up to the entire universe is immense. So immense, I argue, that…
Which makes me a terrible business person I was a terrible business owner. At least from a capitalist viewpoint. My ‘mission statement’ was basically, “I make great beer. If you like great beer, you should try it!”. Seriously. That was it. Yes, we had a facebook page to share business hours and event information, but my business partner did all of that. We spent almost nothing on marketing, advertising, and social media. In the early…
I kind of can’t believe the title of Episode 99, but this is the culmination of all the work so far including nearly 100 KEW Episodes and over 30 Interviews. Hopefully this body of work, thus far, has earned me a bit of credibility. Coupled with my PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and over a decade in multiple modalities of therapy, counseling, and coaching, I think I have some room to ‘weigh in’ on…
You hated statistics, right? And probably didn’t care too much about math? That’s how most people are, anyway. I didn’t really see the point in learning much of the numbers stuff, until I needed the knowledge. Household budgeting, running a business, and understanding what other people are trying to say are just three reasons to understand math and mathematical relationships. This Episode is an example. The normal, or ‘bell’ curve, or normal distribution, is a…
How do you feel about math? How about statistics? If you are like most people, you don’t really care too much about math OR stats. I, myself, did not really like either – until I needed them. As a budding scientist I was really into field work, collecting data, hypothesizing, and playing in streams. But I wasn’t too keen on the writing and data analysis and stuff. Eventually I realized that you are only as…
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…
Now that the worst part is (probably and hopefully) over, can we look back and see how COVID has changed us? Many people died around the world and that will never be anything but terrible, but in what ways has COVID improved the lives of those who survived it? I hope I am being sensitive enough, because I am not trying to diminish the loss of human lives. This episode was recorded in June/July of…