Chuck Spinney: The Economist Backs Off on Climate Change

The below report in The Economist highlights the controversies overtaking the consensus position on human-induced global warming in climate science. IMO, it is balanced; indeed, in many ways, it might even be construed as being slightly biased toward the consensus pro-warming position.  This report does not, for example, disucss the cosmic ray hypothesis of the …

Yoda: Google Glass — Dark Side of the Force? + Big Data RECAP

Concerns, have we. Google Glass: The opposition grows “Stop The Cyborgs” is a new site that attempts to bring a balanced trepidation to the unbalanced idea that we’ll all be walking round with Google’s outer brain strapped to our faces. The opposition will congregate in dark corners. They will whisper with their mouths, while their …

Open Power: Democracy Lost & Found Essay, Book Review Blurbs and Links [Updated 3 MAR 2015]

NEW: Kindle Book Open Power ($2.99) OLD: Core Documents for Both Initiatives (Free) OLD: the foundation book The Open Source Everything Manifesto ROBERT STEELE: There are two schools of thought on effecting political (and hence economic and social) reform. One school is the school of love — this school emphasizes trust building and doing no …

Review (Guest): Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

James Billington 4.0 out of 5 stars What is reason and logic? By what standard is paradise measured. March 4, 2008 By Henri Porter By Henri Porter Anyone who reads this and is still a bit unsure should read Yevgeny Zamyatin’s book WE and Djilas’ The New Class: An Analysis Of Communist System. If they …

Reflections on the Next Four Years — Eradicate “Distortions,” Get the Truth on the Table, and Focus on Free Energy

Joseph Stiglitz, an economist I admire and would trust as one of several advisers has written a provocative essay, “The Post-Crisis Crisis” (Project Syndicate, 9 January 2013).  Here is his opening: NEW YORK – In the shadow of the euro crisis and America’s fiscal cliff, it is easy to ignore the global economy’s long-term problems. …