David Brin: Three-Quarters Climate Change Man-Made

Three-Quarters of Climate Change Is Man-Made An independent study quantifies the human and natural contributions, with solar radiation contributing only minimally Quinn Schiermeier and Nature Magazine Scientific American, 5 december 2011 Natural climate variability is extremely unlikely to have contributed more than about one-quarter of the temperature rise observed in the past 60 years, reports …

Reference (2010): Human Intelligence (HUMINT) – All Humans, All Minds, All the Time [PDF & Full Text Online]

Human Intelligence (HUMINT): All Humans, All Minds, All the Time (US Army Strategic Studies Institute, June 2010) Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-HUMINT Below the line: full text for automated translation.  The Amazon version is published by someone else abusing my original copyright granted only to SSI. Click on cover for free PDF download, or read full text …

John Robb: Radical Energy Innovation Here Now

RC ENERGY TIDBIT: Leveraging the Earth for Heat/Cooling Resilient energy leverages the terrain. Resilient guerrillas/warriors leverage the terrain they are fighting on to the max.  In our case, we want: plentiful, low cost (hyper efficient) energy that uses a process that’s inexpensive to maintain and is under our control (not subject global supply chain factors and …

Theophilis Goodyear: The “Teflon” Argument – Open-Source Government Can Launch a New Scientific Age with Multinational Open-Source Science Projects

The “Teflon” Argument:  Open-Source Government Can Launch a New Scientific Age by Facilitating International Cooperation on Open-Source Science Projects The potential uses for open-source collaborations are limited only by human creativity and ingenuity. In other words, Open-Source Intelligence is open-ended! No one can possibly predict the upward limits of benefits that can come from it. …