The Mermaid's Tale
Saturday, October 10, 2026

Mail Bag: For the love of storms

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Recently, I received a lovely, self-deprecating question from someone asking if (perhaps? ... maybe?...) their love of thunderstorms could b...
Saturday, September 12, 2026

Sapiens, to The End: Fictions Based on Fictions, Eating Fictions Round and Round

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We climaxed in the last post . So, this final post, in what started as a page-by-page review of Sapiens by Harari, is a sort of epilogue. Ti...

Sapiens, Ch. 8: "unfounded myths rather than biological facts" about race, sexuality, sex, and gender

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This is my penultimate post about the book   Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind .  For some reason, the previous post felt like rock bot...
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Monday, September 7, 2026

Sapiens, Ch. 6 and 7: Sick and tired of living among all these awful people? No time to sit around waiting for a cooperation instinct to evolve? Just build prisons!

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There are only three posts left in my (ninth) journey through Sapiens . This is the first of those final three. I started with so much to sa...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Sapiens, Ch. 5: "We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us."

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We did not?  It did?  Without thumbs? This is the next post in my ninth and final journey through the book Sapiens .  We are in Chapter 5: H...
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Saturday, August 8, 2026

Sapiens, Ch. 4: "Don't believe tree-huggers"

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My endeavor to review Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari one page at a time is now advancing one chapter at a time....
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Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Sapiens, Ch. 3: Pure Imagination

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My  endeavor to review Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari one page at a time  is, from now on, advancing one chapter...
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