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Talking About Our Accomplishments
As we make our way through the most pathetic few years in U.S. history, let me offer you the meme to the left. The person who posted this saw no irony, even though I wonder whom he would name as …
Time: Future and Past Exist Simultaneously
As discussed before, it hasn’t been a good last 75 years for philosophers. In the middle of the 20th Century, if you wanted to know the basic nature of the universe around us, you asked a philosopher, perhaps a metaphysician; …
The World Since Newton, and What It Means To Us, Today and Tomorrow
It’s the birthday of Isaac Newton, perhaps the best-known person in the history of science. Though there was other genius to his credit, Newton’s celebrity derived mainly from his insight into universal gravitation and thus the Laws of Motion that …
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Thanks to Isaac Newton
Yesterday was the anniversary of the date on which Isaac Newton published The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in 1687, his paper that laid out a set of discoveries that rank among the most important in the history of humankind: the …
Celebrating Isaac Newton's Birthday
In this age of ours, where we’re all rightfully fascinated with the paradigm shifts that are occurring far more frequently than they did in antiquity, perhaps it’s not a bad time to celebrate the birthday (yesterday) of Isaac Newton. According …
Dr. David Vernon on Global Climate Change
Robert Hennkens, a regular reader whose presence here I value greatly, introduced me this afternoon to Dr. David Vernon, and asked him to write a piece for us here at 2GreenEnergy, which I’ve reproduced below. I note from his CV …
Energy Business Ideas that Violate the Laws of Physics
It’s the birthday of Isaac Newton, whose book “Principia” overturned nearly everything humankind had believed about the universe up to that point (1686). I bring this up to note that perhaps we should not be so smug about “the laws …
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