PinnedMember-onlyScientists: We Have Some Very Bad News For YouYou might want to sit down — Join Medium with my referral link — Clem Samson As a Medium member, a portion of your membership fee goes to writers you read, and you get full access to every story…clemsamson.medium.com Here are the articles in the Scientists: series so far: Scientists: There Is No Life After Death Nor is there a God. There also is no other intelligent life in the universe. We are utterly alone, on a journey with…medium.comHumor7 min readHumor7 min read
Published inThe Haven·1 day agoMember-onlyScientists: We’re on the Road to NowhereAnd science is NOT the solution — in fact, it’s the problem! — Human beings haven’t really dealt with the real ramifications of Charles Darwin’s epic discovery of the laws of natural selection in On the Origin of Species. After 1859 when Darwin presented the theories to the world, there was no immediate convulsion. It took a while for the horrible truth to…Clem Samson9 min readClem Samson9 min read
Published inThe Haven·Mar 14, 2024Member-onlyScientists: Your Ego Needs Realigning Every Now And ThenTry this simple process — Just as your cars wheels go a little wonky with wear, so too does our ego start to go off in directions our soul really has no interest in. The ego realignment process is for you if: You feel out of sorts in any way. You are unsure why you’re…Clem Samson2 min readClem Samson2 min read
Published inThe Haven·Mar 8, 2024Member-onlyScientists: There Are As Many Selves As There Are Stars In The HeavensNone of them are you — So we have arrived at these conclusions about the self after our first chapters of our Scientists Series. We have boiled down the many categories of self to the following: There is the status quo self — the self that is simply the organizer of your thoughts. That person. …Humor6 min readHumor6 min read
Published inThe Haven·Mar 2, 2024Member-onlyYou Aren’t What They Say You AreQuantum Physics And The Self — The self appears to you now like a billiard ball. A Newtonian container that you thought of as your identity. Just as Newton observed the apple falling, you observed yourself falling as an effect of gravity. However, Newtonian physics evolved into quantum mechanics. And we now know that atoms and…Humor11 min readHumor11 min read
Published inThe Haven·Feb 26, 2024Member-onlyScientists: God Finds Us AmusingHe’s laughing with us, not at us — Scientists at the CERN laboratory were looking for the God particle. They didn’t find it, but about two years ago they stumbled upon this coded communication at the most basic level of matter and energy. …Clem Samson6 min readClem Samson6 min read
Published inThe Haven·Feb 23, 2024Member-onlyScientists: Humans Are A MistakeTake corrective action today — No, sterilizing yourself is not what I mean. There is an article in the NY Post today about young Gen Z women who are deciding to become sterilized in order to avoid reproduction. “49% of Gen Zers are hesitant to procreate for fear of the climate apocalypse,” says the Post. …Clem Samson7 min readClem Samson7 min read
Published inThe Haven·Feb 19, 2024Member-onlyScientists: What Is The Largest Creature On Earth?Hint: you live inside one. — These creatures are often way bigger than elephants and whales. But on first glance, they might not seem as big as some of those giant fungi that take up the area of hundreds of square miles. However, like fungi, these creatures are connected to each other under the ground, by…Clerm Samson5 min readClerm Samson5 min read
Published inThe Haven·Feb 16, 2024Member-onlyScientists: We Have Stone Age Emotions, Medieval Institutions and God-Like TechnologyHow the study of ants helps explain the horror in Ukraine, Palestine and Kansas City — “It’s not a winning combination,” said the scientist E.O. Wilson, known as the Father of Biodiversity. It’s impossible to understand what’s happening today to the human race without going back to our pre-history, where we discover the roots of our strange behavior. So said E.O. Wilson. Wilson was a myrmecologist…Clem Samson7 min readClem Samson7 min read
Published inThe Haven·Feb 12, 2024Member-onlyScientists: You Evolved From A SlugSo why do you act so self-important? — All things considered, you are a close relative to the slug, or terrestrial gastropod mollusk. What happened in the evolution of the slug to homeo sapiens? Well, it lost its antennae, and instead of seeing with tentacles it now sees with eyes. Did the pneumostome turn into a nostril? Seems…Science6 min readScience6 min read