James Marinero
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I live on a boat and write as I sail slowly around the world. Follow me for a varied story diet: true stories, humor, tech, AI, travel, geopolitics and more. I also write techno thrillers, with six to my name. More of my stories on Medium
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The Quantum Theory of Consciousness is No More - Maybe
When I first picked up on this story about a quantum theory of consciousness and it being put in doubt by an underground experiment, the first thing that came into my strange maybe conscious mind was ‘Going Underground’.
By James Marinero3 years ago in Psyche
Lithium: A Magic Metal?
I hated chemistry Chemistry was never my thing in school. I loathed it. It seemed to be an ‘imprecise’ science, mixing up liquids in glass jars. Physics turned me on. I loved the electricity experiments, pendulums and the physics of the world around me. How things worked, why things worked.
By James Marinero3 years ago in Earth
Yalta - the Conference that Screwed Europe
I've just been reading Michael Dobbs's book 'Churchill's Triumph'. Dobbs, creator of the 'House of Cards' series of novels is a master political and thriller novelist. Yet again, it's one of those pickups from a goodwill shop that has led me off on a safari into history.
By James Marinero3 years ago in The Swamp
The Art of Revolution
My introduction to Cuban art was a surprise. The first mate and I were in Havana on a flying three-day visit to Havana having left our boat — our home — in Cayo Largo on Cuba’s south coast. We’d arrived there from Grenada via Bonaire and Jamaica, sailing west then north across the Caribbean Sea, 1300 nautical miles. Even in the air terminal art was everywhere to be seen, and during our month there the art turned up in the most unexpected places.
By James Marinero3 years ago in Wander
It's Cyberwar Jim, But Not As We Know It
First the gas Firstly it was the newly commissioned Nordstream 2 gas pipeline, with ‘maintenance issues’ causing a halt in supplies of Russian natural gas to Europe (and Germany in particular). Then, when the maintenance had been completed (nod nod, wink wink) the Nordstream network pipes were hit by explosions in several places close to the coast of Sweden.
By James Marinero3 years ago in 01
Going Green is Driving a World Copper Shortage
A personal story kicked this one off This week I renewed the gas piping on my boat and wondered what to do with the old copper pipework. Copper is in big demand, for sure, but I’m not sure that 3 metres of scrap copper is worth much. 1/2 kg in weight? At $3.31 a US pound my copper is worth about $3. Maybe.
By James Marinero3 years ago in Earth
The Visitors
The boy struggled and kicked with no sound coming out of his mouth. The rope was tight around his neck. Little more than eighteen years old, he hadn’t started shaving, hadn’t properly held a girl, yet he had no more than a few minutes to live. Cyanosis was starting to show in his rapidly bluing lips. His kicks were weakening, his struggle fading.
By James Marinero3 years ago in Criminal
