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• 1. MINDSET and CONSEQUENCES (5/17/2016)
• 2. MINDSET and CONSEQUENCES (5/24/2016)
• 3. Mindsets explained, with an example (5/31/2016)
• 4. Mindset: Meaning and Implications (6/7/2016)
• 5. Birthing a Mindset (6/14/2016)
• 6. Mindsets occur in many contexts (6/21/2016)
• 7. Mindsets can be extreme (6/28/2016)
• 8. LEARNING AND UNDERSTANDING OUR OWN MINDSETS (7/5/2016)
• 9. IN QUEST OF OPEN MINDS (7/12/2016)
• 10. PART I. Perspective: Infinite Continuum, Ceaseless Change (7/19/2016)
• 11. Evolution: Origin and direction (7/26/2016)
• 12. The big bang and tiny moments immediately thereafter (8/2/2016)
• 13. The leadup to Let There Be Light (8/9/2016)
• 14. The eerie strangeness of scientific truths (8/16/2016)
• 15. Evidence that a big bang created the universe (8/23/2016)
• 16. Self organization of large-scale structures in the universe (8/30/2016)
• 17. Of stars and element factories (9/6/2016)
• 18. Let there be planets, forming in orbits around the stars (9/13/2016)
• 19. Imagined alternatives to Let a Big Bang Make Light (9/20/2016)
• 20. In the image of God, and other last-minute creations (9/27/2016)
• 21. Other Adam-and-Eve creation stories, science included (10/4/2016)
• 22. On emerging, upward, toward something ever better (10/11/2016)
• 23. Up, from out of non-living matter, Life – and primal life urges (10/18/2016)
• 24. Let there be life (10/25/2016)
• 25. Two ways of knowing: instinct and conscious thought (11/1/2016)
• 26. Correlations of complexity, consciousness and instinct (11/8/2016)
• 27. Options for first life on earth (11/15/2016)
• 28. Always seek the third option(s) (11/22/2016)
• 29. The real tree of life (11/29/2016)
• 30. Tiny life, most of life (12/6/2016)
• 31. Life and consciousness evolve: vertebrates to amphibians (12/13/2016)
• 32. Life and consciousness evolve: reptiles to raptors (12/20/2016)
• 33. Life and consciousness evolve: all the birds (12/27/2016)
• 34. Life and consciousness evolve: We mammals (1/3/2017)
• 35. Life and consciousness evolve: We primates (1/10/2017)
• 36. Life and consciousness evolved: We humans (1/17/2017)
• 37. Life and consciousness evolving: Homo sapiens (1/24/2017)
• 38. A quick transition: Long Evolution to fast Evolution (1/31/2017)
• 39. On the significance of human mythology (2/7/2017)
• 40. Eleven thousand years ago (2/14/2017)
• 41. Volcanic ashes and tidal waves (3/7/2017)
• 42. Rains of which legends are made (3/14/2017)
• 43. Eight feet of clay (3/21/2017)
• 44. The last prehistory (4/4/2017)
• 45. Recording of human history begins (4/25/2017)
• 46. Early civilizers (5/16/2017)
• 47. Language recorders and evolution of writing (6/13/2017)
• 48. Major human groups and eras (6/20/2017)
• 49. The long life and slow fall of Rome (6/27/2017)
• 50. Dark and Middle Ages (7/11/2017)
• Jumping Ahead to the Punch Line (12/25/2018)