Timothy Wilken In response to my December 25th essay What’s wrong with Merry Christmas? a reader wrote asking: Are you a Christian? … I think that in the past I avoided […]
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We each view reality from our own unique perspective, only a community of minds can show us the truth.
The End of the Oil Age
Reposted from the Earth Island Journal. Thanks for the link to Marguerite Hampton at the Turtle Island Institute. Richard Heinberg The atrocities of September 11, 2001 so dominated world news, […]
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This essay was written in 1996. Flemming Funch I envision a time when most people have stopped having problems they don’t need to have, and where they spend most of […]
Continue readingWhat’s wrong with Merry Christmas?
Timothy Wilken Recently it has become politically incorrect to wish your fellow humans a Merry Christmas. We are supposed to use the generic term Happy Holidays to avoid religious discrimination […]
Continue readingWhy Nanotechnology
We posted the point-counterpoint debate between nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler and Rice University Professor and Nobel prize winner Richard Smalley on the feasibility of molecular assembly yesterday. This morning we […]
Continue readingNANOTECHNOLOGY: The Debate
The following debate is stirring a lot of interest among leading technologists. Reposted from the December 1, 2003 Issue of Chemical & Engineering News. Rudy Baum In this Chemical & […]
Continue readingThe Unselfish Gene
Reposted from The Guardian UK. Johnjoe McFadden What prompted Good King Wenceslas to look out on that feast of Stephen? And why should he have cared that the poor man […]
Continue readingBIOMIMICRY: Explained
Yesterday, we introduced a new idea called Biomimicry. Today we follow with an interview of the author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. An Interview with Janine Benyus 1) What […]
Continue readingBIOMIMICRY: An Introduction
Thanks for the link to Marguerite Hampton. Unknown Author Natural Intelligence: All organisms ~ plants, animals, fungi, algae, and bacteria ~ must grow, maintain, feed, and reproduce to ensure their […]
Continue readingInfinite Valued Logic
A good guy and fellow student of Alfred Korzybski writes this morning. Reposted from Ming the Mechanic. Flemming Funch One could say that there are several different kinds of logic, […]
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