Username:  jan
Real Name:  Jan Jannink



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Podcasting outer space, breaking filibusters and... science!
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Posted by jan 5 days ago (open.salon.com).
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I've been recording and posting some brief (for me) monologues on YouTube, starting with Space Exploration Part 1 - Planning our next steps in beyond Earth  ... followed by Space Exploration Part 2 - Mining the sky: Are there economic [More...]
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Space Exploration, Methane Blurps and Podcast Rants
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Posted by jan 9 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) [More...]
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Water and Wrenches: a rational approach to Mars & beyond
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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 [More...]
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A Primer on Supply-Side vs Demand-Side Economics
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Posted by jan 27 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 [More...]
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An addendum on "The Fall of Civilizations"
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Posted by jan 34 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 [More...]
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Distinguishing Climate "Deniers" From "Skeptics"
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Posted by jan 35 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." [More...]
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The Real Struggle Behind Climate Change - A War on Expertise
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Posted by jan 37 days ago (open.salon.com).
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The schism over global climate change (GCC) has become an intellectual chasm, across which everyone perceives the other side as Koolaid-drinkers.  Although I have mixed views of my own about the science of GCC, and have closely grilled a number of [More...]
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The Admiral as Hero
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Posted by jan 42 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 [More...]
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The GOP's betrayal of Conservatism
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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, [More...]
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Followup on Haiti, Science, Brinstuff and the Enlightenment!
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Posted by jan 50 days ago (open.salon.com).
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Salon Magazine asked to publish as a main article an updated version of my essay about reconstruction in Haiti, wherein I suggest the establishment of clear corridors for every kind of right-of-way, across the capital city -- mass transit,sewer,water, [More...]

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