Petticoat Government

A personal blog, named in honor of the novel Petticoat Government by a favorite author, Emma Orczy. The novel is about a fictional woman, Lydie d'Aumont, who attempts to inject some fairness and good governance into the court of France's Louis XVth despite the corruption and selfishness there.

Monday, May 4, 2026

Experimenting with spinach

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I haven't given up on working to identify molecules that make it possible to use up stored fat. Right now I'm looking at some kind o...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Perils and promises of artificial intelligence advances

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When most of us think about artificial intelligence (AI), we tend to think of chatbots like Grok, ChatGPT, and Claude. Those chatbots are me...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Printing press marks in a Tom Clancy book

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Tom Clancy's novels have a lot of swearing in them, so I have been editing them with a black pen before my children read them. As a resu...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Free files to make a customizable poster on cross multiplying

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Too many students make it to high school math without really understanding certain arithmetic and algebra procedures. One such procedure is ...
Monday, March 9, 2026

A glucosamine chondroitin supplement reaction with magnesium sulfate?

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Because cartilage is in the lungs and trachea, I think it should be investigated in connection with respiratory illnesses. After reading stu...
Monday, March 2, 2026

Juniper berries sometimes given the same treatment as anise?

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 As I've blogged about before, I've had store-bought juniper berries in the past that contained something that allowed me to lose we...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Using the "wrong" name for animals on different continents

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A frequent complaint about the Book of Mormon's claimed antiquity is that it mentions "horses" while the pictorial and other e...
Friday, February 13, 2026

A proposal for a "Civics Connections" colloquium-style course for high school students

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Recently I have been learning about the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. One aspect of it that I think non-IB high schools can lear...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Mind reading and telepathy in a Tom Clancy book from 1988

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I have been reading The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy. When I first read it decades ago, much of the technical information about la...
Monday, January 19, 2026

We are to keep valuable truth safe, not to hide it

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In the 1800s, Joseph Smith studied the Bible and felt inspired to make some changes. The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sa...
Saturday, January 3, 2026

Some lessons from educational experiences

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My children have almost aged out of homeschooling. They like to go to "regular" high school. So, after over 15 years of being a ...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Agentic AI

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Agentic AI (artificial intelligence) has gotten quite good. My daughter accidentally damaged a brand new gift card today, so I had to call t...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

In defense of a just God

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Sometimes I see people saying that they are repulsed by "the Abrahamic religions" (i.e., Judaism, Christianity and Islam) because ...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Three directions for possible scientific inquiries about bones in the head

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For some reason, despite all the body scan data that we can now obtain and process, I never see anything in the headlines about how cranial ...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Someone else self-publishing about potentially criminal election machine issues

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Today at church, someone left in my daughter's friend's vehicle a 9-page document describing how a woman in Colorado has been held i...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

Low blood flow in the brain is linked to depression symptoms and severity

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A study this year-- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2832270--found that cerebral blood flow is linked to depress...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Possible weight loss without store-bought processed foods

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I keep trying small changes with my morning routine and tracking them to see if they result in weight loss. I might have a possible breakthr...
Monday, October 6, 2025

Quantum mechanical entanglement: key to affecting people's thoughts, emotions, and bodies from a distance

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I have repeatedly sounded a warning about modern technologies being used to manipulate people without their knowledge. Core functionality in...
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Possible progress on the weight loss experiments

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I might have a new avenue to explore. Here are the things I'm doing differently that are corresponding with drops on the scale: 1) Havin...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Data companies have "vast troves" of personal information on all of us. How is it being used?

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The Deseret News, the more widely-circulated of the two newspapers in the Salt Lake City area, recently published a very important, informat...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

7, 10, 10: another possible "sign" taken from the Book of Revelation used to indicate being against God

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My daughter was asking how the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants got divided into verses recently.  The Doctrine and Covenants is a ...
Monday, September 15, 2025

The dangerous combination of human-created content on the internet and AI-chatbots' documented ability to cause psychosis

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Eleven days ago, Psychology Today posted an article about documented cases of AI-chatbots inducing psychosis in several people, including p...
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I research regional cuisine differences and juxtapose them with medical research and epidemiology. Sometimes, I end up with new hypotheses as a result, which I revisit to modify or refine from time to time. Molybdenum glycinate's efficacy for treatment of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and migraines is my hypothesis that has the most evidence (real-life) for it.
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