Daniel Quinn Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money. In fact, the things […]
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Timothy Wilken As many of you know, I earn my living as a practicing physician. Our industry is in great trouble. The economics of practicing medicine, and this includes the […]
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Yesterday, I introduced writer Tom Robertson to the SynEARTH network. Here are three more samples of his writing. Economics Tom Robertson Folks, to a large extent, economists, have become the […]
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Scott Meredith the moderator at Alas Babylon Yahoogroup asks a question, and Tom Robertson, moderator at the Energy Resources Yahoogroup answers. Scott Meredith I still still still just don’t get it. Yesterday […]
Continue readingAthanasius Kircher and the World of Parts and Wholes
Don Steehler sent me a note to take a look at the writings of Tom Robertson at the Energy Resources Yahoogroup. Tom Robertson The note below marks this month as […]
Continue readingHarnessing the Evolution of a Planetary Consciousness
Martin L. W. Hall, Ph. D. The more that people organize in groups, the more that we have to find new ways to do things. The explosion of travel and […]
Continue readingAre We Spiritual Machines?
Ray Kurzweil is one of our most brilliant scientists and technologists. I very much enjoyed his book The Age of Spirtual Machines. He will soon publish a sequel which will […]
Continue readingHow We Might Save Millions of Lifes
Save Millions of Lives Around Bengal and make that region prosperously productive Win Wenger, Ph.D. The northern end of the Bay of Bengal shallows in such a way that […]
Continue readingComplexity is Just a Word!
Peter A. Corning, Ph.D. “What is complexity”, asks author-journalist George Johnson in a recent “Science Times,” the science section of The New York Times (May 5, 1997)? Below the headline, […]
Continue readingEcological Footprints of Nations
The following is a summary of a much longer report. Mathis Wackernagel, Larry Onisto, Alejandro Callejas Linares, Ina Susana Lopez Falfan, Jesus Mendex Garcia, Ana Isabel Suarez Guerrero, Maria Guadalupe […]
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