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The video below is an explanation of the Hyperloop, the futuristic mode of transportation in which passengers climb into pods that travel at speeds of up to 700 MPH though tubes with very low air pressure.  One can imagine that …

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American culture has always had its extreme fads, like flagpole-sitting or goldfish-eating; the pic here featuring “extreme tree trimming” from the 1880s is an example.  That’s hilarious, IMO. But these are curiosities.  On a far broader scale, we’re starting to see the …

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The video here is a joke, and the audience clearly gets the humor, yet this is a conversation that I had almost verbatim with my apolitical son very recently. I was trying to inspire him to become more engaged, and I started …

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David Benatar, a self-described “anti-natalist” philosopher, believes that life is so bad, so painful, that human beings should stop having children for reasons of compassion. From this article: “While good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, …

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While U.S. football fans spent last Sunday eating and drinking their way through the Super Bowl, few noticed that it was also the birthday of Ayn Rand, author of philosophic novels.  Her concept, as we all know, is that individual creativity, …

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Product dewatering is the process of removing elements of liquid and water from waste materials, which can include sludge, slurry, sewage, industrial waste, water sources and others, according to an article by Wikipedia.org. Considering that Americans use billions of gallons …

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One of the highlights of my trip back east this week will be a visit to my client OTECorporation, a company with a huge head-start in ocean thermal energy conversion.  “OTEC,” as it’s normally abbreviated, is one of the renewable …

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Here’s an article from Forbes.com written by my colleague Tom Konrad on Chaos Theory as it applies to the analysis of both the stock market and climate change.  This subject has been at the core of Tom’s life’s work, starting …

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I heartily recommend the PBS special: “Civilization: The West and the Rest,” which does a fine job in analyzing the six “killer apps” that resulted in the dominance of the Western culture over the remainder of the world. They are: …

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