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| Guns, Germs and Steel seeks to explain the broad sweep of human history, primarily on the basis of environmental factors. It is hard to overstate the value of reading this breathtaking and illuminating book. | |
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Telling the Good Biofuels from the Bad Biofuels Some bio-fuel ideas are just economic snake-oil, but others are viable ideas. This is a guide for telling the difference. 11/17/2011 - Monograph |
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The coargopic principle To Know Truth, First Know the Standard of Falsehood. 11/17/2011 - short |
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Lucretius |
A Proposal for Mining Asteroids An idea for small-scale, low-cost, near-term asteroid mining: First, capture a small asteroid (5-meter-diameter or smaller) into orbit of the Earth. Second, use the material from that asteroid in space where it is much more valuable than it would be brought to Earth. 11/15/2009 - Monograph |
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To coin a word: "valash" 1/17/2010 - short |
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...a time to heal; a time to break down... The omnibus health care plan is ill-timed and distinctly unpopular. How many times will the Democrats ignore a chance to retreat? 1/17/2010 - Monograph |
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Space Elevators Do Not Go All the Way to The Top Over the last hundred years, variations on the idea of space elevators have been suggested, explored and determined to be impossible with available technology over and over again. The early 21st century, is no different. People continue to propose the idea and we continue to have nothing remotely like the technology needed to make such an artifact. Nonetheless, belief in this chimera continues to siphon off funding, and talent from actually feasible plans. Meanwhile, boondoggles such as space elevators give all of us who desire a sustained human presence in space the reputation of wild-eyed dreamers with our heads in the clouds. 10/20/2009 - Monograph |
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The Center Cannot Hold American politics has lost all congeniality, cofraternity, and constructive compromise. Both parties accommodate their extremists and disenfranchise their moderates. What will be the outcome? 10/20/2009 - Monograph |
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Concerning Radicals Radicals on all sides of all issues are the same. They are parasites attached to political, social, and religious causes using them to promote a hidden agenda of Social Change. Because affecting Social Change is inefficient, slow, difficult, and often resisted by the very people whose society is being modified, this hidden agenda has numerous deleterious side-effects for the organization or cause that Radicals have infected. This essay offers a clear and objective way to identify Radicals. By this identification, and with additional information, political, social, and religious organizations can be cured of Radical infestations, and protected against further outbreaks. 9/7/2009 - Monograph |
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We must De-Centralize D.C. With WMDs sure to proliferate, it is foolishness of the first order to concentrate the apparatus of government in a single city. We have enough ways to communicate remotely and instantaneously to make the federal government of the United States robustly distributed. The price of not doing so is unacceptably high. 9/7/2009 - Monograph |
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To coin a word: 'grelay' 9/7/2009 - short |
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Why we have built The Redoubt Taking its name from the mighty pyramid in a 1912 fantasy/horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, The Last Redoubt aims to give its readers refuge from doctrinal foolishness, partisan savagery, intellectual decadence, and general banality. 9/7/2009 - Monograph |
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