I wrote this essay several years ago, but seemed just right for today’s front page. At the time I was writing this I was still working on the GIFTegrity. My work on […]
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This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University. Steven Jobs […]
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Marguerite Hampton “Other than the war in Iraq , the Katrina disaster, the deficit, the CIA leak, torture, stopping stem cell research, homeland security, global warming and undercutting science, we’ve […]
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Al Gore & David Blood Capitalism and sustainability are deeply and increasingly interrelated. After all, our economic activity is based on the use of natural and human resources. Not until […]
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James Howard Kunstler An acquaintance told me a weird story yesterday. Let’s call him “E.” He runs an Internet consulting company here in Saratoga Springs. It employs about twenty-five people […]
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Reposted from Ming the Mechanic. Flemming Funch Andrius reminded me of a conversation we had on Key Concepts. The idea being that if one is clear on what one’s key […]
Continue readingKosmos: A Brief History of the Word that means “Everything”
Reposted from the Andrew Cohen Blog. Tom Huston Let’s start with a definition: Kos-mos noun The multidimensional Whole of manifest reality—spanning physical, biological, psychological, psychic, and spiritual domains. An ordered, harmonious […]
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Reposted from the Physics Virtual Bookshelf. David M. Harrison Here is a favorite statement of Bohr’s Principle of Complementarity, based on so-called wave-particle duality for light: “But what is light […]
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The following is from the Ministry of Thought Project. Unknown Author One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with […]
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Reposted from F.David Peat’s website. F. David Peat As a result of the popular books and magazine articles that have appeared over the last few years the topic of chaos […]
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