Cool It.
Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in Cadre, Invention, Global Warming, Mass Movements | No Comments »We want to stop and reverse the global warming trend. Our knowledge is limited, there is a risk with any decision, but our scientists, on strong evidence, support this way. The politics of freeing ourselves from the threats of the ...
All Ideologies Are Wrong Headed
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in Invention, Iraq, Ideology | No Comments »Pareto was suspicious of stated motives. Too many people performing the same kind of action offer vastly different reasons. Freud felt that the motive for an action frequently is not easily accessible to the actor. The gap ...
My Kingdom for a Horse
Sunday, June 8th, 2008 Posted in Invention, Culture, Sports | No Comments »This notion of fate, the insignificant event tipping a larger outcome, involves man's relationship to the horse. Without this animal the man is in deep trouble. Yet at one time in our human story none of us had one. And ...
A New Rule for Baseball
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Invention, Sports | No Comments »I propose a change in the rules of baseball, namely the elimination of the automatic home run. The outfield fence over which the home run is hit is an artifact of the enclosed baseball field that was invented ...
Opinion. My Two Cents Worth on the World-Wide Anti-Fossil-Fuel Project.
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Critique, Invention, Global Warming | No Comments »In transportation any saving on the weight to be moved can be converted through a saving in power to a saving in amount of fossil fuel used. Bring the weight down enough and you can drop the fossil fuel and ...
The People and Global Warming
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Invention, Global Warming | 2 Comments »Unanticipated consequences (the wild joker of functionalism in sociology) emerged after decades of happy service for both tobacco and fossil fuels. These goods were revealed finally as stark threats to the well being of our species. Their use ...
Chump Change
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Invention, Mass Movements | No Comments »"Some work must be done," said the King, "but who is to do it?" "Everyone," said the Queen. "The Royals as well?" asked Alice. "Only if they are paid double," answered the Queen, "and get everyday off." "And you?" persisted Alice. "You have gone beyond ...
Holes in the Social Order
Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Invention | No Comments »The High Line in Manhattan, New York, an abandoned west side elevated railroad track stopped its active transportation role around 1980. Neither the city government or the railroads paid it much attention after. Taxes were paid, obstructions set in place ...
Fire One
Thursday, December 20th, 2007 Posted in Invention | No Comments »Consider this scene from back in the old cave dwelling days. A storm, lightning shears off a tree limb and sets it on fire. A woman approaches and sensing in an ah-ha moment the distinction between the cold and hot ...
Notes on Invention: (1) Buck Rogers in the 21st Century
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Invention | No Comments »Buck appears to have been made-up by writer Philip Francis Nowlan in 1928 in two short novels published by Amazing Stories. Rogers' original first name was Anthony. He has appeared in a variety of media since--newspaper comic strips, radio ...