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- Early Childhood Curriculum by JD Garcia Powerful and unconventional underpinnings to understanding the world
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- Survivor Library Files Survival/prepper file flood
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- The Industry Handbook Quick and useful overview of a number of industrial sectors for investors
- The Law Frederic Bastiat’s classic critique of socialism and democracy
- The Nuclear Energy Option Online Ebook Free online ebook by by Bernard L Cohen
- Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions On Scientific Paradigm Shifts
- Why Wind Won't Work Clear explanation of the many problems with wind energy in a 30 pp PDF document
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- Bjorn Lomborg Getting the facts straight
- Brian Wang's NextBigFuture Optimistic Science & Technology Future Website
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- John McCarthy: Sustained Progress How Scientific and Technological Progress can be Sustained
- Julian Simon Online works of Julian Simon, eternal optimist
- Lifeboat Foundation blog Blog of the futurist Lifeboat Foundation
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- Mike Rowe Works Foundation Correcting the Skills gap
- Patri Friedman and Seasteading Projects of Patri Friedman, grandson of Milton, son of David
- Peter H. Diamandis' website X Prize, Singularity University, Planetary Resources, etc.
- Ray Kurzweil Kurzweil’s Singularity
- Robert Bryce Better Living Through Technology
- Seasteading Institute Quest for Free Living on the Oceans
- The Arts Mechanical An exploration of the technologies that affect our lives
Monthly Archives: June 2016
An Intriguingly Plausible Theory of Cyclic Climate Change
For millions of years, Earth’s climate has been governed by cycles of long periods of increased glaciation followed by short “inter-glacial” periods of melting and warming. Presently, humans are enjoying a naturally warmer inter-glacial period, and have been able to … Continue reading
The Myth of Syphilis
Syphilis is a “hot topic” in American and European medical news. Breathless reports of rising syphilis rates among homosexual populations titillate readers from Paris to New York — but these politically correct stories conspicuously neglect to report where syphilis is … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Biomedicine, Demographics, Europe
Tagged Demographic Decline, Medicine
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Discovering Peter Zeihan: When Heads Explode
Charles Hugh Smith Discovers Peter Zeihan Charles Hugh Smith is a blogger – author who is open-minded enough to acknowledge new ideas when they hit him on the head. Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical analyst who loads his arguments with … Continue reading
Trying to Finance a First Class Military with a Third Class Economy
In USD terms, Russia’s economy is smaller than Italy’s, smaller than Canada’s, smaller than Australia’s, smaller than California’s. None of those nations (or states in the case of California) attempts to build and maintain a world-bullying sized military, but it … Continue reading
Posted in Russian Decline
Tagged Russian Decline
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Humans Get Things Done When It’s Warmer Outside
The timeline begins at 4,000 BP and it shows steady cooling to the Little Ice Age (roughly 1250 to 1850 AD). It is easy to see that the Roman Warm Period was cooler (at least in Greenland) than the Minoan … Continue reading
Not Work Safe
If You Thought the Internet Was Addictive Before, Take a Look at the Future Neuroscientists are concerned about the phenomenon of internet addiction, which has resulted in a number of deaths in Asia. The dopamine-fueled phenomenon of internet games, social … Continue reading
Energy, Immigration, and Economic Suicides of Germany Exposed Fatal Flaws of Ill-Conceived EU
One of the fundamental rights of a nation-state is the right to national self-determination. This means that the citizens have the authority to create governments that follow their wishes. __ George Friedman Germany is at the heart of the nascent … Continue reading
Boosting Power Supply Resilience: Islanding via Microgrid
Basic Microgrid Concepts First of all, microgrids have nothing to do with unreliable intermittent energy schemes such as big wind farms and industrial solar power arrays. Microgrids are about building robust resilience into larger power systems. They are also about … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Islands of Competence, Nuclear Power
Tagged energy, Microgrid
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Investors Revolted by Tesla Motors’ Plan to Acquire SolarCity
… a struggling SolarCity could be a burden on Tesla, which is also using up cash fast. Tesla’s free cash flow last year was a negative $2.2 billion. In theory, then, a combination of Tesla and SolarCity would have burned … Continue reading
Moscow Can’t Maintain Economic Dominance in Central Asia
Russia Losing the “Great Game” to China The world is supposed to believe that Russia and China are chumming it up, signing mutual commitments left and right. But the underlying reality is that Russia is being pushed back from large … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, China, Russian Decline
Tagged Central Asia, China, China_Russia
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ISIS Cyber Caliphate Operates Out of the Kremlin
According to German experts, the so-called Islamic State is unable to carry out complex hack attacks. According to Der Spiegel, the truth is that Kremlin’s hackers are behind the cyber-caliphate. __ Der Spiegel Claims Russia Responsible FSB, GRU, and SVR … Continue reading
Posted in China, Russian Decline, Siberia
Tagged China reality, Russian Decline
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Universities Overproducing PhDs
Median Salaries and Employability of PhDs Falling A PhD isn’t what it used to be. Almost 40% of new recipients of PhDs are left with only stopgap jobs or job prospects. Taxi drivers and bartenders, for example, are becoming much … Continue reading
Why Can’t China and Russia Innovate?
These days, China and Russia are more famous for stealing, pirating, and copying foreign technology than for meaningful homegrown innovation. Europe Can Innovate Over the past 6 centuries, Europe and its diaspora have been the global centre of innovation. European … Continue reading
Posted in China, Creativity, Economics, innovation, Russian Decline
Tagged China reality, innovation
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Noisy Nuclear Submarines of China, India, Russia Take to Sea
More Nations are Joining the Dangerous Cat and Mouse Game of Nuclear Missile Submarines The Chinese military is poised to send submarines armed with nuclear missiles into the Pacific Ocean for the first time, arguing that new US weapons systems … Continue reading
US States vs Rest of World: 3 States w/ Larger Economies than Russia
US States Compete With Each Other, Not the Rest of the World Even now, as the federal government has become obese and overly intrusive, states still must compete with each other to attract and retain workers. States like California that … Continue reading
Building a Positive Future Instead of Tearing it Down
We have discovered through hard trial and error that a society without a sense of larger purpose drifts into nihilism and despair. __ ColonyofCommodus To build a future, people must have a sense of purpose — “a larger purpose” than … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Economics, expansive future, Future, Media, Philosophy, Propaganda, Space Future
Tagged Elon Musk, Philosophy, Space
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Anti-Ageing Interventions
A Few Biomarkers or “Mileposts” of Ageing It will be very difficult to measure the success of anti-ageing interventions without using a number of validated biomarkers that reflect the current state of ageing of the organism or person. Here are … Continue reading
Demographic Change: The World You Think You Know is Being Overturned
Economic Foundations are Eroding Beneath Your Feet Young people have more dopamine, more testosterone, more vim and vigour. It is the natural life drives and ambitions of the young and middle-aged in high-IQ societies that drives the economic engines of … Continue reading
Jumbled News Items
Human Brain Regeneration Using Adult Stem Cells The technique involves injecting stem cells through a borehole in the skull into regions of the brain that are known to control motor movements, and which have been damaged by stroke… these injected … Continue reading
Posted in geopolitics, Medicine, Regenerative Medicine
Tagged geopolitics, regenerative medicine
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China and Russia on the Same Page: Geopolitical Risk
Revanchism in Russia and China Drives Out Investment and Threatens Economic Futures To understand the nature of such geopolitical risk, look no further than the debacle of revanchist Russia’s taking of the Crimea and large chunks of Eastern Ukraine at … Continue reading
A Thoroughly Corrupt System of Rent-Seeking and Academic Lobotomy, with Some Alternatives
… the cost of university per student has risen by almost five times the rate of inflation since 1983, and graduate salaries have been flat for much of the past decade. Student debt has grown so large that it stops … Continue reading
Posted in Education, University
Tagged Education, university
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Russian Pharmaceutical Production and Sales Drop Amid Economic Crisis
Drug Production and Sales are Down; Abortions and Mortality are Up The manufacture and purchase of medicinal drugs are down sharply over the past two years, as spending priorities are shifted away from health care, over to more crucial issues … Continue reading
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