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Most of us know by now that the indigenous children of North America were sent to oppressive schools by the government of the United States.  These schools separated the kids from their families and cultures with the stated and funded purpose of indoctrinating them into the common European derived American culture.  The way to do [...]

The New Mexico Mueum of Art has an exhibition on American Impressionism. There we learn that a major characteristic of impressionism is that is it en plein air, that is painted not in a studio, but in open nature. As such, impressionism focuses on painting the light and air, rather than the details [...]

The O’Keeffe museum in Santa Fe has become one my favorite museum. It is case of I am not the most educated appreciators of art, but I know what I like. And I like the abstractions of hers. The dilation, the deformations, the non representational.
Here are one thing that she says that [...]

Todays activities involved a trip from Santa Fe to Las Vegas. This trip passes through the Santa Fe national Forest, and the Pecos Valley. An hour trip in some ways through a lot of nothing, in most ways a journey out of the Santa Fe Mesa to mountains which are always approaching but [...]

As I was moving through my young adults years, a process that has now been thoroughly completed, I recall discussion on the nature of science and how the development may have been affected by the apparent gender disparity.  I did not, and still do not, believe that the fundamental models are influenced by the gender [...]

Science is about making observations, cataloging the observations, then attempting to generalize those observation into a principle. This is what most people see as the scientific method. There are however two additional steps. This first is that a principle must accurately match new observations. Such a step is critical. [...]

Two people died last week, within hours of each other. One has been all but forgotten, the other is still inducing people into fits of hysteria. Some are questioning why, attacking those that might call one or the other a genius, or wondering why we care about two people dying when at least that [...]