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jan: Newest Content (50 Links)
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Space Exploration, Methane Blurps and Podcast Rants
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 10 days ago (open.salon.com).
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A couple of hurried announcement-notes, then a quick-drafted thought on methane blurps and cycles of history:
1) With the help of a techie-camerawoman (for whom I feel considerable fondness), I've begun recording and posting some brief (for me)
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Water and Wrenches: a rational approach to Mars & beyond
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 19 days ago (open.salon.com).
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Someday, Earth civilization will send emissaries to Mars. Over the long run, the task of exploration cannot be left only to robots. If we are ever to know Mars from a human perspective we must have eyes on the ground, feet in the soil. People offer
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A Primer on Supply-Side vs Demand-Side Economics
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 28 days ago (open.salon.com).
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Russ Daggatt's latest missive discusses whether the Stimulus Bill has had good effects. His analysis is well worth perusing... and spreading the link.
My own take on things is more abstract. So let's step back and examine how Democrats and
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An addendum on "The Fall of Civilizations"
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 35 days ago (open.salon.com).
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We appear to be at a cusp point, where the Western World chooses between two paths.
One is the trail of stupidity, leading to a cliff. Almost 100 years ago, in The Decline of the West, Ozwald Spengler transfixed the public with his
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Distinguishing Climate "Deniers" From "Skeptics"
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 36 days ago (open.salon.com).
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A fair number of people have written in response to my previous posting - The Real Struggle Behind Climate Change - A War on Expertise - griping that I do not get a crucial distinction between climate-change "Skeptics" and "Deniers."
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The Admiral as Hero
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 43 days ago (open.salon.com).
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Where is that Predictions Registry, when I need one?
Did I holler with joy across cyberspace, back when Adm. Mike Mullen became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? People said, "Calm down David, it's not the Second Coming!" But I felt it was
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The GOP's betrayal of Conservatism
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 49 days ago (open.salon.com).
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I beckon everybody to go visit the blog of one of the most incisive political observers around, Russ Daggatt. In this posting, Russ points out that the current GOP lockstep-disciplined partisanship has nothing to do with conservatism, or patriotism,
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Urban Planning from the Ruins
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 54 days ago (open.salon.com).
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In the latest issue of Newsweek, President Barack Obama explains "Why Haiti Matters," offering reasons -- from moral to pragmatic -- for Americans to care about that unlucky nation. Indeed, were it possible to wave a wand and transform
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A Cornucopia of Wonders?
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 69 days ago (open.salon.com).
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Announcing four of my books new to Kindle: EARTH, The Uplift War, Otherness and The Practice Effect. In 2 weeks: Startide Rising and Heaven's Reach. (Kiln People and Foundation's Triumph were already available.)
Ethics and The Future. I've
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The betrayal of the smart sons
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 86 days ago (open.salon.com).
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Having recently read a dyspeptic and grouchy, but eye-opening, look at the fix we’re in - 15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams, by David DeGraw - it occurred to me that there are all sorts of possible theories to explain what's happened
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Health Care. Again... Insure the kids first!
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 92 days ago (open.salon.com).
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What does it take to see the obvious?
First, in today's weirdly reshaped political process we should not be wringing our hands over details in the Senate's version of Health Care legislation. The current bill is warped by the need for
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Miscellaneous wonders.....
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 98 days ago (open.salon.com).
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While polishing a more entertaining piece for you all, here are some interesting snippets....
Out this week, Jeff Carlson's PLAGUE ZONE brings his popular trilogy to a close with a new adventure featuring fan favorites like Cam Najarro and Allison
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Re-allocating energy research... a lesson in capitalism
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 105 days ago (open.salon.com).
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The Obama Administration, while pumping up funding and incentives to further develop hybrid vehicles, has slashed $100 million (60%) from the budget for George W. Bush’s preferred approach -- hydrogen fueled cars. Of course, this is one more sign
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Well, at least science pushes on...
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 105 days ago (open.salon.com).
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First some REALLY important news. Splash! NASA moon strikes found significant water. Having an abundance of water on the moon would make it easier to set up a base camp for astronauts by providing drinking water and the ingredients for rocket
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Name The Decade (of miserable whiners)?
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This Link is located in the Public Channel Tomorrow Happens.
Posted by jan 105 days ago (open.salon.com).
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A NY Times reporter interviewed me about naming the decade that’s about to end.
My suggestion? That the “Noughty Oughts” might signify what a zero-time it was, with America, especially, giving in to every bad habit of self-righteous, dogmatic
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