six point five billion pixels
by Vinay Gupta • March 11, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
http://www.royalsapien.com/pop1/ gives you a sense of scale
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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The Global Picture
Global warming: wrong?!
by Vinay Gupta • March 9, 2008 • Science, The Global Picture • 3 Comments
Miskolczi’s story reads like a book. Looking at a series of differential equations for the greenhouse effect, he noticed the solution — originally done in 1922 by Arthur Milne, but still used by climate researchers today — ignored boundary conditions by assuming an “infinitely thick” atmosphere. Similar assumptions are common when solving differential equations; they [...]
Read more →Supply side anarchism – or, “just what kind of a libertarian are you, Vinay?”
by Vinay Gupta • March 9, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
Dependency requires control. This simple truth is at the heart of politics. The cities depended on the rural areas to supply them with food, and so feudalism. The sick and infirm need care, and socialist schemes seek to provide for them. The highly interdependent nature of the current form of the market “requires” massive control. [...]
Read more →Another quote
by Vinay Gupta • March 5, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
“we’re keyboard-enabled apes”
Read more →Global wind energy data released in an open fashion
by Vinay Gupta • March 4, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9885177-54.html
Read more →Severe Panflu Response Strategies
by Vinay Gupta • March 3, 2008 • The Global Picture • 4 Comments
Original article is over at GuptaOption.com Severe Panflu Response Strategies Version 0.5A Point of contact Vinay Gupta hexayurt@gmail.com Abstract To support this volunteer effort in the public interest, please click here to donate to the Hexayurt Project by Paypal. Abstract Historical evidence shows that the 1918-1919 flu epidemic virus, H1N1, was extremely fatal (CFR > [...]
Read more →The Bank of the South – a Latin-American Development Bank
by Vinay Gupta • March 2, 2008 • The Global Picture • 1 Comment
The new bank will permit Ibero-America “to free ourselves of those chains which tie us to financial dependency,” Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, one of the intellectual architects of the bank, told the press upon arriving in Buenos Aires today. “We have a common past. The time has come to seek a common destiny.” The bank [...]
Read more →Unauthoritarians and Authoritarians: Worlds of Difference
by Vinay Gupta • March 2, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
Once in a while I find something that really affects me. The first big change in my thinking based on new data, not new models, was Rudy Rummel’s work on democide. Note: RWA is short for Right Wing Authoritarian, a group identified by prior psychological screening. Unauthoritarians and Authoritarians: Worlds of Difference By now you [...]
Read more →Infoglut and cognitive aesthetics
by Vinay Gupta • March 2, 2008 • Personal, The Global Picture • 1 Comment
It’s official: I’m not even able to keep up with the highlights of my blogs, never mind the real meaty content. And that’s having sacrificed pretty much all of my book time to blog time. Infoglut has overtaken me. What’s interesting is that I can’t really collaborate my way out of this. Smari, Marcin, David, [...]
Read more →Pathological incentives block local/organic farming
by Vinay Gupta • March 2, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/opinion/01hedin.html?em&ex=1204520400&en=1850d11a7a2d5f01&ei=5087%0A
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