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Movie: What the !@#$ Do We Know? (2004)
A hodge-podge of vignettes, computer animations, and clips of interviews with scientists and mystics questions the certainty with which we seem to regard everyday consciousness. It’s good that it argues that we know less thank we think (and I agree), because otherwise a coherent argument would probably be required. It’s also good that it has…
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Movie: The White Diamond (2004)
Wow, a documentary that presents real people the way the present themselves, complete with long pauses in dialog. The adventure of an explorer who has built an airship to explore the rainforest canopy in Guyana includes the intertwining stories of his own past, his hired help, and the filmmaker himself. I was touched by these…
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City of Rocks – Jackson’s Thumb
After yesterday’s multipitch we’re hungry for more, so we start off in the morning to Jackson’s Thumb to climb Theater of Shadows, a four pitch low angle cruiser with lots of bolts for protection. I bushwhack up a steep, rocky, sagebrushy hill to the base where we can clearly the see the nicely constructed trail,…