Kevin Boothby Sailing

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Make Psychology Fiction Again

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy To some the internet is a virtual Gomorrah, a bazaar of propaganda, pornography, rage-bait and fraud, wherein one may find a few useful things like Google Maps. To me it is a blessing for the cause of truth, for…

October 7, 2026

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Rowing Religion

On Sea-Steading, God, and Oar Power Fans of my YouTube channel How to Sail Oceans have suggested that I write a book. I’m reasonably sure that they mean a sailing book, an adventure log. The truth is that I am really not interested in the project, perhaps because I secretly regard the project as beneath…

October 11, 2025

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Citizens of the Narcissus

The Higher Learning When I was in graduate school back in the 1990’s one of my professors, a brilliant but irascible man, opened his lecture with a remark which, paraphrasing from memory, went as follows: “Back in the early 20th century we had all of these groundbreaking discoveries in physics with only a few people…

January 28, 2025

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Conquer Nature, Kill God

Our long and difficult relationship with nature needs to be understood in a first hand way. Sunshine State Politics January, 2024 Thus far my sailing sojourn to Florida and the Keys has been spectacular. I’m not merely talking about the weather, which of course comes as a welcome change from November in New England. The…

June 18, 2024

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