James Marinero
Bio
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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Discovering Brothels, Bordellos and Burdels
Some years ago I spent a couple of winters in Sicily, living on my boat in the dock at Marina de Ragusa. It’s a wonderful Island with great wine and pizzas to die for. Just up the road is the old city of Ragusa which is a World Heritage Site. There’s plenty of other history too with amazing Roman ruins, at Agrigento for example. Then there’s an active volcano, Mt. Etna if you fancy visiting a boiling crater.
By James Marineroabout a year ago in Wander
A New Class of Dead Star?
Some neutron star basics Neutron stars have a radius on the order of 10 kilometres with a mass of about 1.4 solar masses. They result from the supernova explosion of a massive star, combined with gravitational collapse. The huge gravitational collapse the core past white dwarf star density (~10⁶ g/cm³, or 1 tonne per cubic centimetre) to that of atomic nuclei (~3×10⁸g/cm³), resulting in a diameter of about 20 km.
By James Marineroabout a year ago in Futurism
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 Marineroabout a year 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 Marineroabout a year 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 Marineroabout a year ago in The Swamp