Thursday, December 29, 2016

To Introduce Wild Animals for Ecologic Healing

 


It is no secret that humans have possibly stressed the environment beyond repair.
We are currently in the middle of a mass extinction because of human misdeeds.
I presuppose that it is a fallacy to believe that humans can never help ecosystems.  The suggested fallacy many believe, heaven forfend, is that it is human activity by nature makes us in a way that we humans must permanently destroy more than we are able to mend due to human iniquities.  It is time for humanity to step up and take more effort to do good by nature because too often we wait, which causes dreaded population bottlenecks for species, making recovery even harder because it diminishes necessary antifragile genetic variability to a population.


If we reach out, we should not fear that animals will become dependent on our support.  We as humans should think of helping animals succeed as a job, and in addition humans should demand pay for such work, as wild animal breeders, such that wild animal breeding could be both a job creator and a human niche.
 
While not optimal, I believe that it could still be good to help both suffering species and non-endangered species.  Too often humans have waited to the extent that our activity creates a population bottleneck.  Rather, I suggest that we breed animals, especially harmless animals, with the hope of having them enter their natural niche out of captivity.


I even suggest that with the help of scientific research, in order to fight the toll of invasive species, possibly we could also safely introduce more invasive species, except the new invasive species, would be less troublesome, as they would be natural predators functioning to reduce the total damage done to indigenous species.   

In the future, we may end up having to help species in a multifaceted battlefront, including efforts to reduce toxic carbon emissions.  This is job #1 for humanity today.  We need to step up to the plate and assume a role of encouraging bio-friendly activities that heal the world, rather than giving up on ideals.


  

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Spelling: In Favor of More Inclusive Dictionaries


When it comes to spelling, I hate vowels.  In English, the correct spelling of too many words hangs on vowels that usually don’t affect the meaning of the word, although there is a great difference in some words as affect, and effect.  In a definition, the vowel letters can be trivial and stumbling blocks even for someone who is well educated.  So what’s holding us back from accepting multiple spellings of words, such that we rewrite our English dictionaries, including multiple spellings of words like difference and, differance, or tomorrow, and tomarrow, etc.?


Monday, December 19, 2016

Newly Invented #Chess #Checkers Variant

By Alex and Craig Hamilton





Board Setup:  One player plays with chess pieces.  The other player has checkers pieces.


For the player with chess pieces:
  • There is the same number of chess pieces, 16, for the player who has chess pieces.
  • The King is white, and he goes on his color.  The Queen is black, and she goes on her color.
  • Each chess piece, black or white, goes on it’s color.  For example, the Castle on the right side of the board is white, while the Castle on the left side of the board is black.
  • The chess pieces move and capture as they would in a normal game of chess.
  • The way for the chess player to win is to eliminate all of the checkers on the board.


For the player with checkers:
  • In this variant, the checkers player controls 36 checkers.
  • These 36 checkers cover the the checkers player’s entire half of the board.
  • Each checker goes on it’s color, black or red.
  • The player with checkers plays opposite the side of the player with chess pieces.
  • The checkers move as checkers normally move.
  • The way for the checkers player to win is to put the chess player’s King in checkmate.


Please note:  There are 2 tokens used in the checker player’s that represent two missing red checkers.