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- Nick Land's Dark Enlightenment The Dark Enlightenment Series
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- 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
- Grey Enlightenment Conservatively optimistic economics/finance
- 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
Category Archives: Creativity
Dark Star: A Cult Classic and Its Making
This is the full movie “Dark Star” from 1974 — before Star Wars, before Alien, but six years after the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is hilarious for its combination of gallows humor with slapstick and ultra-low budget … Continue reading
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Brevity is the Soul of Wit
As for the quote in the title of this page, “Brevity is the soul of wit,” that comes from the William Shakespeare play, Hamlet. Polonius is speaking to the king and queen of Denmark: Therefore, since brevity is the soul … Continue reading
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Styles of Thought
The human brain did not evolve with any particular end in mind. But we have been lucky to find at this late date in our evolution that our brains are capable of several types of thinking. Using these different approaches … Continue reading
Five Year-Olds Just Don’t Get No Respect
But Perhaps They Should In 1968, George Land conducted a research study to test the creativity of 1,600 children ranging in ages from three-to-five years old who were enrolled in a Head Start program. This was the same creativity test … Continue reading
Open Source Innovation: From Out of Nowhere
The Disruptive Innovation That Knocks You On Your Ass These types of innovations often come from out of the blue. The more open the society, the more types of financing can be discovered to take a blockbuster innovation from new … Continue reading
A World Badly In Need of a Proper Disruption
First Bitcoin, Then Stocks, Then Oil Prices Fall Recent turbulence on global markets has cast a spell of “fear and trembling” over many financial journalists. The financial media is known for its blatant stupidity, making mistakes such as confusing stock … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Disruptive Technologies, Economics, Groupthink, innovation, Making Government Unnecessary
Tagged innovation
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Are People with Low IQs Doomed to be Left Behind?
Lower intelligence is a limiting factor when it comes to education, employment, and economic success but IQ has nothing to do with dignity, friendliness, compassion, honesty and a host of other positive human attributes. Access to all the opportunities imaginable … Continue reading
A Mind Forever Young
Maintaining A Youthful Outlook Two striking features of healthy children are a curious inquisitiveness and a sense of playfulness. Young kids are always asking questions. Ordinary preschool children ask about 100 questions per day. But then something tragic often happens … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Competence, Creativity
Tagged Education, human brain, raising children
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Can Your Cardboard Boxes Do This?
Things You Can Make With Cardboard One can build durable houses, boats, bicycles, automobiles and much more, using cardboard. The cheap and common material can be reinforced, waterproofed, and cleverly shaped to make it durable beyond your wildest expectations. Cardboard … Continue reading
How to Think Better
1. Understand deeply 2. Make mistakes 3. Raise questions 4. Follow the flow of ideas 5. Change __ Burger and Starbird, quoted here Note: The following article is adapted from a piece previously published on The Dangerous Child blog How … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Creativity, Dangerous Child, Human Brain
Tagged Cognition
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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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How Much Does an Entrepreneur Make in the US?
noun, plural entrepreneurs [ahn-truh-pruh-nurz, -noo rz; French ahn-truh-pruh-nœr] 1. a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. 2. an employer of productive labor; contractor. __ http://www.dictionary.com/browse/entrepreneur Note that entrepreneurs assume the … Continue reading
Posted in careers, Creativity, Discovery, Education, Human Slavery, Sensitive and Critical Periods of Development
Tagged business, career, risk, self discipline
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How to Get More Production from Your Female Workers and Slaves
A Guest Article by the Brilliant and Virtually Irreplaceable Administrative Assistant, Valerie Get More Production Out of Your Human Female Slaves: An Android Perspective Creativity and problem-solving can be very useful attributes in human slaves, even females. Scientists have recently … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Human Brain, Human Slavery, satire, Valerie
Tagged electromagnetic brain stimulation, Human Slavery
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Open Access Science in the West: Sign of Openness, Roots of Innovation
Open access journals — such as the Public Library of Science, the “Frontiers in” journals, journals published via Biomed Central, and many more illustrated above, highlight the openness of information of all types in the west. More Open access journals … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Disruptive Technologies, geopolitics, innovation
Tagged geopolitics
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Making Government Unnecessary: Brew Your Own Drugs and Chemicals at Home
Automated Molecular Synthesis vs. Biosynthesis of Drugs The image above displays Martin Burke’s molecule-making machine. It is capable of automated chemical synthesis, sometimes described as a “3D Printer for Chemicals.” The machine is meant to facilitate the automated synthesis of … Continue reading
World’s Most Innovative Universities
Innovation is the lifeblood of the global economy. It is what drives the advancement of better technologies, improved medicine, streamlined services and most new products and solutions. __ Reuters Notice in Table 1 below, how the world’s most innovative universities … Continue reading
Human Brain — The Undiscovered Country
[One] region of the brain that is masculinized during development is the amygdala, which in addition to its roles in the processing of emotions is a key region regulating social play behavior by juveniles, sometimes called rough-and-tumble play, which differs … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Connectome, Creativity, Dysgenics, Human Brain, IQ, Machine Intelligence, Science, Sex Differences
Tagged Brain Connections, human brain
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Malthusian Monkeys Screech of Doom
Update: New steel alloy has strength to weight ratio of titanium at one tenth the cost (Nature Abstract) When Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, and John Harte wagered Julian Simon $10,000 that the cost of commodities and natural resources would always … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Creativity, Doom, Fertility, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Materials, Natural Resources, Ocean, Optimism, Peak Oil, Science, Technology
Tagged Green Corruption, Green Idiocy, TFR
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Looking for Drug Utopia and Genius
Mind-altering drugs are both promise and curse. Make the right choices, and a better life can open up before you. Make the wrong choices and you may lose the ability to make any more choices at all. “OxyContin, Xanax bars, … Continue reading
Reinventing the Wheel
Reinventing the wheel is generally discouraged on principle. And yet, if one can create a wheel with enough properties that are superior to what is being used, at an affordable price, one stands to make a lot of money. It … Continue reading
Manly Skills and the Art of Manliness
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, … Continue reading
Golden Ages and Dynamic Stability of Civilisations
The golden age of Greece depended upon trade between far-flung colonies around the Mediterranean. The golden age of Islam relied upon wealth from trade among regions of conquest, and a hub-like cross-trade and knowledge cross-fertilisation between lands in the east … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Discovery, Empire, Wealth of Nations
Tagged civilisation, golden age, Rise and Fall of Empire
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