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The Ritual of the Street Corner -- a "tonic" exercise in humility 25 Aug 2013 | 03:18 am
As time passes, many of us are coming to realize that our current political and social struggles - especially within the United States - have much less to do with "left versus right" in any classic se...
Ocean Geo-Engineering, Whale Poo, SeaLand and Rising IQ 19 Aug 2013 | 09:52 pm
== Back to the oceans "geo-engineering"… and more science! == Some of my earlier postings discussed ocean fertilization as a means of geo-engineering remediation to address rising carbon dioxide leve...
Reasons for Optimism and Concern: Can Technology Save the World? 13 Aug 2013 | 09:32 pm
== Can we save the world? == I cannot recommend too highly an excellent article that appeared in The Guardian -- Technology as Our Last Best Hope -- about the concept of ecological modernism, which ...
Much ado about "nothing"… and nothing but science 9 Aug 2013 | 03:25 am
My friend Robert Lawrence Kuhn has collaborated with University of Guelph professor John Leslie on a book whose title is both provocative and… well… especially redolent to me and to my own readers. T...
Themistocles and the Rise of the Citizen - (a movie?) 3 Aug 2013 | 08:55 am
Pattern recognition is a human gift… and curse. Nowhere is this more blatant than in the entertainment biz. Ideas get ripped-off, right and left -- almost as often as folks hallucinate that they wer...
Galactic Self-Reproducing Probes? (Plus tweet-ready miscellany!) 28 Jul 2013 | 10:22 am
First a note: my op-editorial, If You Can't Hide From Big Brother, Adapt was syndicated around the world in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune and a longer version, Snooping vs. Privacy:...
From Google Glass to License Plates: Transparency Updates 23 Jul 2013 | 09:29 pm
I've been busy with a few national interviews. One of them, on the NSA, transparency and aggressively looking back, has already appeared on the David Seaman Hour; other topics ranged from SETI to Sc....
Transparency - is it so hard to understand? 20 Jul 2013 | 11:09 am
Variety, the news-zine of the entertainment biz, just ran a pair of articles on the pro vs con aspects of Google Glass. Space was limited, but I conveyed the "pro" side -- or rather "It's inevitable ...
Short-short science fiction tales - a couple of mine… and one that's better 17 Jul 2013 | 10:14 pm
I just found out something that gave me a moment of envious joy, with a colleague and friend. While we were both in Fort Worth for a speaking event, Rob Sawyer and I were relaxing over beverages, dis...
Ocean Fertilization redux… plus the politics of science 15 Jul 2013 | 01:19 am
My last posting about Climate Change remediation got a lot of attention, positive and negative, so let me emphasize: I do not consider any form of "geoengineering" to be a substitute for responsibly ...
