Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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161 Physics and the Near Occasion of Sin
My diet failed again. The latest in a long string of fad diets, I hoped to tip my scale in the negative direction. But going back in time, even one calorie at a time, is a cosmically challenging proposal.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
160 — Eventual Horizon
The wormhole radio chatter got weird. In and out came snippets of phrases, some from Star Central, but some were voices we recognized as ourselves. Many were about things that hadn't even happened yet. When orbiting a black hole's event horizon, it was speculated such things could happen.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
159 You've Just Entered the Fight-or-Flight Zone
Adrenaline prepares us, biochemically, to fight or run away, two crucial options that made possible our species' survival: Pupils constrict to better focus on our peril. Our heart rate increases for more oxygen to our muscles, so we can use them on-the-fly (to fight or to run). Hair stands on edge, making us look bigger and more threatening, harkening back to when size mattered. Blood pressure rises, delivering more stroke volume to our muscles; gut circulation decreases, allowing more blood for the musculoskeletal system.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Fight to the Death
Here I stand, stranger in the distance There you stand, my stranger, a'wond'rin' I seek to know, seek assistance From whence I came? Your stranger, a'sund'rin'?
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
158 In'genda: an Invisible Agenda Within an Agenda
"I want to start this meeting," she greeted, "by saying you have absolutely no credibility with me." "Oh." I stammered, no mid-course correction to offer. "Is the meeting over, then? I thought I had a right to this meeting once an investigation had begun."
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Voyager Returns
February 4 Flung centripetal Kissing the god of the underworld Forever frozen In exotic outlying sublimations . May 4
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
157 — It All Adds Up: (94% + 6%) ÷ 100% = Me
THE DATA: 94% of people self-report being above average. 6% of people self-report they are below average, but are above average in self-reporting. The 94% of people self-reporting to be above average are actually below average in self-reporting.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
156 A Quantum Mechanic Observes the Collapse of Screwdriver Probability Fields. Top Story - June 2024.
Quantum mechanics is spooky, Einstein said, about quantum entanglement: a particle, observed, determines the status of another it's entangled with.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
155 Follow the Money
Philip Morris is one of the world's largest tobacco companies, worth $160 billion. Its stock price is $99.93/share, a 5-year increase of 30%.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Imprimatur Pending
Taking the Gospel as gospel Mis-taking the devil as hostile Self-appointed commissars Grace-annointed imprimaturs Determine what are the truths that
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
154: Id, Idn't It?
I am--all of my neurons hard-wired together simultaneously. If self-awareness requires migratory consortia of squirmy, vacillating neuronal interactions, then I'm solid-state. I am aware of all that is, all at once, including all cross sections of everything's existence along the past, present, and future paratemporalities.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
153 Roulette
I spied him through the glass--saw how unhappy he was. How utterly depressed. His hopelessness. I know that look, I thought. How it felt when your body seems to be an automaton, directed by some deeper, primitive desperation.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction