2010/11/27

Changing climate

How much climate change is due to climate change scientists flitting among international meetings?

2010/11/21

success is doomed to failure

Nothing can keep growing without starting to fail; viz., TV, the automobile, mass education. Scale is a fundamental systemic force in the universe.

anger

Conservatives unhappy with sclerotic government and progressives unhappy with winner-take-all capitalism sound the same. Systems are overheating.

2010/11/16

handbooks in a nutshell

What's with these cutesy titles for 200, 400, 800 page books? A handbook fits in your pocket; a nutshell is even smaller.

2010/11/04

The mother of all perfect storms

When a profit-hungry biopharmedical industry meets an aging population in a shrinking economy.