<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:49:05 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@natator88/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[ALTERNATIVE FUTURE HISTORY: CUBAN DEMOCRACY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Margaret Trudeau, mother of Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada, and wife to Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada, visited Cuba in 1971. Justin Trudeau was born in December, 1971. Raul]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@natator88/alternative-future-history-cuban-democracy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@natator88/alternative-future-history-cuban-democracy</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 01:45:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXYmB4Z3TeETvNQiPHAEp9Whk7WDPgSZgdntWDGFbdEqsZxwcvbiTrRUnAJtwFFL5u3utABagCCv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[ART PERSONIFIED - OLYMPICS]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot of Germany just captured the gold medal at the PyeongChang Winter 2018 Olympics. Watching their free skate performance made me think: art personified. The music they skated]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/olympics/@natator88/art-personified-olympics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/olympics/@natator88/art-personified-olympics</guid><category><![CDATA[olympics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:57:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eLmZwAuWhF1RxzgGrzeVyAXL8VUZyegFuLA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Most Heartwarming Headline You'll See Maybe Ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea Asks UN for Permission to Let North Korean Official Attend Olympics I sometimes sit and ponder how North Korea will lift itself from its morass. Lately, it seems that South Korea is interested]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/news/@natator88/the-most-heartwarming-headline-you-ll-see-maybe-ever</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/news/@natator88/the-most-heartwarming-headline-you-ll-see-maybe-ever</guid><category><![CDATA[news]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:26:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicidal Species and the Complexity of Nature]]></title><description><![CDATA[Suicidal Species Are (nonhuman) species suicidal by nature? That is, will they consume prey until there is no prey left, thereby unintentionally committing suicide? An experiment from the 1930s by Gause]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/ecology/@natator88/suicidal-species-and-the-complexity-of-nature</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/ecology/@natator88/suicidal-species-and-the-complexity-of-nature</guid><category><![CDATA[ecology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:17:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXYzjFef486rpAJuFx4SWCjY15sNgdUFgk3Pbb7vxFVfP1BayDPrJoiKqqnguDvseLkY7cM4wM4A?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make America Green Again]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Sierra Club just sent a sticker in the mail: Make America Green Again. I'm going to use this sticker, and enjoy using it, even though it is anathema to their mission. Specifically, they are]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/environmentalism/@natator88/make-america-green-again</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/environmentalism/@natator88/make-america-green-again</guid><category><![CDATA[environmentalism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2018 23:33:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZ6PUnHwAecXtiLY72fE93mSJdMxbrjNGdyapan1x2eLviKiVHyqt1kdom2fz5SVDhWnF89K5UA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Libertarian and Epistemocratic View of Ecology]]></title><description><![CDATA[What do the primacy of the individual and a recognition of the unknowable have to do with ecology? Let us rewind time back to 1798 and a chap called Malthus, who proposed a theory of population growth:]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/ecology/@natator88/a-libertarian-and-epistemocratic-view-of-ecology</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/ecology/@natator88/a-libertarian-and-epistemocratic-view-of-ecology</guid><category><![CDATA[ecology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:25:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZu7kuE98zwCZoAU89KnG6WeB3qgYQP2eGBJBXVbHUG85CAM8gu9cNHvATx5HgsixpmHADt57EE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discordant Harmonies - Daniel B. Botkin]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is nature intrinsically harmonious or inharmonious? Mainstream ecologists would probably reply, "Harmonious, of course. Everything is interconnected in a beautiful web of smoothly running]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@natator88/discordant-harmonies-daniel-b-botkin</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@natator88/discordant-harmonies-daniel-b-botkin</guid><category><![CDATA[nature]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:47:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZtiLkGbxbQQtGmPBJBxvaEpXFkY4AD66WjaGi6kaG8TUReE1FPagV8U2Xk2EYyJbHoQJV1Wb98?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maximize the Serendipity Around You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nassim Taleb is full of one-liners good for maxims, mottoes, and mantras. Just read his book "The Bed of Procrustes." This particular advice, however, comes from his book "The Black Swan."]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@natator88/maximize-the-serendipity-around-you</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@natator88/maximize-the-serendipity-around-you</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2017 21:25:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXa4FRZWqTncwnoCTjuaodEqpGUsrXVkTTx3NfY2rqZpJXAiMVgxYprvYeHqsEMhCaXFxUpKmBdx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter Beauty]]></title><description><![CDATA[My Mom is an excellent photographer. She shot this pine cone during Golden Light, an hour after sunrise or sunset. I was lucky enough to be raised by two generations of photographers, my Mom and Grandfather,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@natator88/winter-beauty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@natator88/winter-beauty</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2017 14:43:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXa8FS4YpQv7Teg3ysVPWrDvDK2LNCJyvRqu2xZZye3pBe2yceCsVbrEe4krR8ro5DJJ3Njcy9Hx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I Hope Bitcoin Keeps Dropping]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the beginning of this year, I had about enough cryptocurrency here on steemit to buy one Bitcoin. But I didn't, because I'm not a very decisive person. Now, I'm kicking myself. So, I hope Bitcoin keeps]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@natator88/why-i-hope-bitcoin-keeps-dropping</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@natator88/why-i-hope-bitcoin-keeps-dropping</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2017 04:48:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXa4hoLRxZ1UDDhfBFkU7PwW1DiS3DKmLX5p4EZyXi8sRZA1FivPTkTu6uhCR3r3y7rB3k1DNrpN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Fears Overhyped]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every time I read one of Bill Gates' injunctions against AI, or Elon Musk's warnings against it, I don't feel afraid. After all, as one of my hyper-intelligent friends says, there will always be a physical]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/cognitive-biases/@natator88/ai-fears-overhyped</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/cognitive-biases/@natator88/ai-fears-overhyped</guid><category><![CDATA[cognitive-biases]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2017 02:30:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXYSygMzdnVMFk6qdAHhgUU1uPfBr8LokqBAQVRavSjK5dWee8Ejwt5y5DTEDvxksxPbemrG9FvW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[WESTERN CIVILIZATION'S THREE WORLDVIEWS]]></title><description><![CDATA[Traditionalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism: which will win out in the end? "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." - Louis Brandeis. It will cleanse all bad ideas from our society. Image from]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@natator88/western-civilization-s-three-worldviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@natator88/western-civilization-s-three-worldviews</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 20:23:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZAzYuxUHjTFc8YVfADGpBs8Rb8PF1Dv8iZ2MkGiUMtUuqCT4JvvEkswDiqHpNdfdPjVuM42GVU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[CAN WE LEARN ANYTHING FROM THE CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yes, we can. Specifically: Nature is more powerful than we are We need more prescribed burns We need to change our attitudes to wildfire control Breathtaking but deadly. Image from The Washington Post.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/news/@natator88/can-we-learn-anything-from-the-california-wildfires</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/news/@natator88/can-we-learn-anything-from-the-california-wildfires</guid><category><![CDATA[news]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 21:53:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZk7SGShXcaxiucXZmbLH7BQH69MDfuzEGY5ajcjxDDKf5QDcAHznVDk2fRHGkEaLyg3z1FhgxN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DON'T KNOW AND WE CAN'T PREDICT IT]]></title><description><![CDATA[MULTIPLICATIVE DIFFICULTY HYPOTHESIS How can we predict things? What does trying to predict the 25th impact of a billiard ball tell us about the nature of the universe and the limits of our predictive]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/science/@natator88/we-don-t-know-what-we-don-t-know-and-we-can-t-predict-it</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/science/@natator88/we-don-t-know-what-we-don-t-know-and-we-can-t-predict-it</guid><category><![CDATA[science]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:10:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZ5yCxmeXMKYUo3oWEYUD7B5Eazxhfjog9MnT3XRivjcqcTpUePbNr57UYrAZne8WfpeseCRUJr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[MEME CONTEST- YOU ARE WHAT YOU READ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earn SBD! Have fun! Be creative! I'm reopening my Meme Contest, since I didn't get any entrants last time. Same rules as before, except the deadline is Friday, December 8 at 12 pm CST. Here's the orgininal]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/contest/@natator88/q4pug-meme-contest-you-are-what-you-read</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/contest/@natator88/q4pug-meme-contest-you-are-what-you-read</guid><category><![CDATA[contest]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2017 00:57:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/82kPqomaPXmNsjpEo1JmFDEUfLkC6tCQW9Q4tMt2LAb8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[BRAINS ARE ANTICIPATION MACHINES]]></title><description><![CDATA[HYPOTHESIS Why do we predict the future? Why do we anticipate? What is the evolutionary foundation for this mechanism? According to Daniel Dennett, it is because it is beneficial to play out alternative]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/science/@natator88/brains-are-anticipation-machines</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/science/@natator88/brains-are-anticipation-machines</guid><category><![CDATA[science]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2017 23:00:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXYShndfCYEdNLiozQTxK8j7QHfz3sLump3TByjXnqMJZCPwTtU3d5styA6mvig7xd9s49YAbgPp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHARACTER VS DIVERSITY]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE HYPOTHESIS I went to givewell.org to search for Property and Environment Research Council, a company I want to work for. Their search engine is down, but I noticed a tab labeled “Our Mistakes.” Intrigued,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/society/@natator88/character-vs-diversity</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/society/@natator88/character-vs-diversity</guid><category><![CDATA[society]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:27:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXYqpFHszdxRWss8zsQ1WPmdCzg99vFrgcV7XF5Zp27ZLdYVDeC4itd3LrSM8JYJUkyZepsV4ZUJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[HORSE FEATHERS EVERYWHERE]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you ever gotten something in your mind and started seeing it everywhere? Probably, because this is a version of synchronicity, or perhaps confirmation bias. Well, what I'm seeing is horse feathers,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@natator88/horse-feathers-everywhere</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@natator88/horse-feathers-everywhere</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:31:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/82kPqomaPXmNsjpEo1JmFDEUfLkC6tCQW12yC9zU9Nnr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[WHY WAS THE FROG INCORRECT? IT JUMPED TO THE WRONG CONCLUSION.]]></title><description><![CDATA[What do Dusky Gopher Frogs and property rights have in common? I wish I could think of a punchline, but neither the environment nor property rights are a joke. A Dusky Gopher Frog. Image taken from Wikipedia.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/environmentalism/@natator88/a-free-market-solution-to-this-frog-problem</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/environmentalism/@natator88/a-free-market-solution-to-this-frog-problem</guid><category><![CDATA[environmentalism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 23:20:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZ63MTubLv7FoD8JkYwWmA3orNd5EtZBHLiY4gj5sRUt1ufp53mCm4aYFnfCtTJmTZSgFJSz3gr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Hold a Frog]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am quite the herpetology (amphibians and reptiles) freak, and I enjoy spreading my passion to others. This summer, I worked with 2 species of birds, which although are technically herps, do not usually]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@natator88/how-to-hold-a-frog</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@natator88/how-to-hold-a-frog</guid><category><![CDATA[nature]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natator88]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 20:37:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXa4essRifGa6xabchZbULLK8AR2yrgVA5TPRGcQL2RomwnexAe7zA9vUu7rNoBajCxhH2JGNiCE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>