Timothy Wilken The truth is especially hard to believe if it requires that we take action—if it requires that we change. If humanity is to have a future, we must […]
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Denial and the Psychology of Climate Apathy
By George Marshall My first real exposure to the issue of climate change was reading a newspaper article in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1988 by a leading Australian climatologist. […]
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Who is Dean Kamen?
Timothy Wilken Dean Kamen is an inventor, an entrepreneur and a tireless advocate for science and technology. His roles as inventor and advocate are intertwined—his own passion for technology and […]
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Why do we need IT!
Timothy Wilken I am very excited about Dean Kamen’s new invention. When word first leaked of the existence of a new transportation device this past April, excitement flared up with […]
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Andrew J. Galambos “Humans develop evermore powerful knowledge and therefore evermore powerful tools. When tools are used to harm other humans they are called weapons. Since human knowledge can grow […]
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Joseph George Caldwell The thesis of my book Can America Survive? is that when fossil fuels deplete (over the next few decades), the global human population of Earth will drop […]
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Kamen’s Personal Transportation Device
By Amy Harmon New York Times Online The mystery transportation device being developed by the award-winning inventor Dean Kamen—the subject of continuous fevered speculation since provocative clues and predictions surfaced […]
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Reinventing the Wheel
John Heilemann TIME.COM “Come to me!” On a quiet Sunday morning in Silicon Valley, I am standing atop a machine code-named Ginger–a machine that may be the most eagerly awaited […]
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Bonnie Goodell The Polynesians provide interesting models of what happens to populations when a new source of easy protein is discovered. I think these case histories could easily be applied […]
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Dean Koontz Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you […]
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