The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sibel Edomonds Finally Wins Sibel Edmonds’ new book, Classified Woman, is like an FBI file on the FBI, only without the incompetence. The experiences she recounts resemble K.’s trip to the castle, as told by Franz Kafka, only without the pleasantness and humanity. I’ve read a million reviews of nonfiction books about our government that …
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Techcrunch Interview Posted: 28 Apr 2012 10:15 AM PDT I did an interview the Jon Evans at Techcrunch (the social technology hub) earlier this week. Here it is. I’m spending most of my time writing and editing the Resilient Communities letter (it’s free to subscribe). As I said in the interview, the reason I started the …
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Why we need to bypass electrical utilities if we want to build a low carbon society Excerpted from Bill St. Arnaud: “I have long argued that we need to bypass electrical utilities if we want to build a low carbon society. Utilities, even if they are publicly owned, have an inherent economic incentive to use …
Cyclone Power Adds A Modern Twist to the Steam Engine Cyclone Power Technologies, a Pompano Beach, Florida company, focuses on solving our dependence on fossil fuels with its heat regenerative external combustion engines. “This engine works when steam enters the top of each of the six radially arranged cylinders (20) and pushs the pistons (54) downward …
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Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs [1]. A related field is educational data mining. Phi Beta Iota: The obvious deficiency is that most projects are generally focused on retro learning environments. …
The New Rules Of Innovation: Bottom-Up Solutions To Top-Down Problems In his new book, Vijay Vaitheeswaran argues that we’re thinking about worldchanging innovation all wrong: It’s not going to come from where we expect it. Arnie Cooper www.fastcoexist.com, 19 March 2012 The world is currently standing “on the cusp of a post-industrial revolution.” So writes …
When Elites Depart One of the benefits of having a son that is a scholar of ancient warfare, from Alexander the Great to the Byzantine Empire to the Mongols, is that we can have wide ranging discussions on very deep topics. Of perennial interest to us: why do complex societies/civilizations collapse? One of interesting working …
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