Let’s talk about the wedge issues. These are the four big issues where Americans do not agree with each other, and cannot either change their minds or agree to disagree. The first wedge issue is abortion. Either an abortion is a murder or it isn’t. If it is, abortion clinics are neighbourhood death camps. If [...]
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Read more →Really quite a nice article. http://progressivebuildingsolutions.com is the main site for commercial hexayurt activity right now, of course.
Read more →The researchers had already shown that each session of intellectual work requires only three calories more than the rest period. However, despite the low energy cost of mental work, the students spontaneously consumed 203 more calories after summarizing a text and 253 more calories after the computer tests. This represents a 23.6% and 29.4 % [...]
Read more →After fretting for the past five years or so about how to keep the economy from overheating, Beijing is now faced with the novel problem of how to keep it from cooling. “If you’re sitting in Beijing, you’re saying, ‘We’ve already lost two percentage points of economic growth. How much more are we going to [...]
Read more →The Factor e Farm tractor marches forwards: And the Icelandic Fab Lab is operational!
Read more →Inspired by US Military to be 30% robotic in 12 years. Version 1 is here. Version 3 is here. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. (cite) The war against the Iraqi government was short, [...]
Read more →Inspired by US Military to be 30% robotic in 12 years. Version 3 is here. Billions of dollars of R&D money are going into robots designed to win the war that the Founding Fathers imagined the population might one day have to fight against the government, and the clock is ticking on the complete destabilization [...]
Read more →As good as any protest song from the 1960s. There’s a spark of greatness in this generation, times to rise to. Go, kids, go.
Read more →About the same population density as the US, also. Guptastan now, more than ever. A 100km x 100km area is all we need, and with cheap solar getting more available day-by-day, a “desalination state” seems like the hot tip – work on a dry coastline where currently there are few or no people. We’d need [...]
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