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Mike Stone
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Retired, poet, lover of dogs and other people
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"The Sands of Time" by Mike Stone from his twelfth book of poetry (a work-in-progress), "little gods and plausible souls". To read over his shoulder while he writes, click on uncollectedworks.wordpress.com/little-gods-... #poems #poetry #LittleGodsAndPlausibleSouls
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"Ouija Poem #6" by Mike Stone from his twelfth book of poetry (a work-in-progress), "little gods and plausible souls". To read over his shoulder while he writes, click on uncollectedworks.wordpress.com/little-gods-... #poems #poetry #LittleGodsAndPlausibleSouls
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Very interesting, accessible, and rational ...

Sean Carroll: Can we ever escape the logic of a clockwork universe?
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Sean Carroll: Can we ever escape the logic of a clockwork universe?
Physicist Sean Carroll explains how classical physics could mean our choices were never really ours.
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October 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Past and Prologue" by Mike Stone from his twelfth book of poetry (a work-in-progress), "little gods and Stone plausible souls". To read over his shoulder while he writes, click on uncollectedworks.wordpress.com/little-gods-... #poems #poetry #LittleGodsAndPlausibleSouls
October 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Love elicits dopamine; rejection causes withdrawal. Don't love and drive ...
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The science of romantic love, explained an anthropologist | Helen Fisher
YouTube video by Big Think
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October 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
What I've been saying all along...

Hamas Doesn’t Believe in Peace
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Hamas Doesn’t Believe in Peace
There will be no lasting resolution to this conflict, John Aziz writes, without the total elimination of Hamas’s capacity for violence, coercion, and control over the Palestinian population.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Is HAMAS Publicly Executing Palestinians?
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Is HAMAS Publicly Executing Palestinians?
I'm waiting for the college protests on this one
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October 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
a good analysis of what just happened and what will probably happen ...

Trump Just Brokered Peace in the Middle East.
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Trump Just Brokered Peace in the Middle East.
Here’s Who Won and Who Lost
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October 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"Peace Train" by Mike Stone from his twelfth book of poetry (a work-in-progress), "little gods and plausible souls". To read over his shoulder while he writes, click on uncollectedworks.wordpress.com/little-gods-... #poems #poetry #LittleGodsAndPlausibleSouls
October 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Every religion that isn't all-inclusive in terms of its benefits, every philosophy that doesn't benefit all of us, every political, legal, and economic system that doesn't benefit all of us, will kill all of us ...

I went to space and discovered an enormous lie
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I went to space and discovered an enormous lie
What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.
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October 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"After the War" by Mike Stone from his twelfth book of poetry (a work-in-progress), "little gods and plausible souls". To read over his shoulder while he writes, click on uncollectedworks.wordpress.com/little-gods-... #poems #poetry #LittleGodsAndPlausibleSouls
October 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Explained
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Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Explained
Genius or Madness?
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October 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
HAMAS AND ISRAEL HAVE AGREED TO END THE WAR IN GAZA AND TO RELEASE THE LIVING HOSTAGES WITHIN 3 DAYS!
Halleluyah! Thank G-d and thank President Trump for his 21-point Middle East peace plan!
October 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“Prometheus Unbound” from “Short Stories by Mike Stone”. To purchase, click www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFHY5FR4/.
#ShortStories #author
September 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"Waiting for Godot" by Mike Stone, from his book of essays, "The Uncollected Essays, Conjectures, and Whatnot of Mike Stone". To purchase, click www.amazon.com/gp/product/1....
#essays #conjectures #whatnot #author
September 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"Voyage" by Mike Stone, from Chapter 1 of his 4th sci-fi novel, "Out of Time". To purchase, click www.amazon.com/gp/product/1...
#ScienceFiction #novels #author
September 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Session" by Mike Stone, from Chapter 4 of his 3rd sci-fi novel, "Whirlpool". To purchase, click www.amazon.com/gp/product/1....
#ScienceFiction #novels #author
September 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"History" by Mike Stone, from Chapter 2 of his 2nd sci-fi novel, "The Rats and the Saps". To purchase, click www.amazon.com/gp/product/1....
#ScienceFiction #novels #author
September 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"First Entry in the Diary" by Mike Stone, from Chapter 3 of his 1st sci-fi novel, "Why Is Unit 142857 Sad? (or the Tin Man’s Heart)". To purchase, click www.amazon.com/gp/product/B....
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September 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"At Onslow Bay" by our birthmother, Vivienne E. Stone, from her book of poetry "The Song of Joy and Pain". To purchase, click www.amazon.com/dp/1721082182/.
#poems #poetry #author
September 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"I Think, therefore We Exist" by Mike Stone from his twelfth book of poetry (a work-in-progress), "little gods and Stone plausible souls". To read over his shoulder while he writes, click on uncollectedworks.wordpress.com/little-gods-... #poems #poetry #LittleGodsAndPlausibleSouls
September 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM