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Friday, February 6, 2015
Value of society’s health
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Policy makers, both sides of the aisle and across the pond, often seem to miss the big picture. Sure, a democratic system that works in 4 a...
Monday, February 2, 2015
Cultural slippage
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Human societies, from inception, have shown a positive slope, albeit small, toward higher culture – defined by a better and abstract unders...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
The utility of strategy
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Strategy, a long term view of evolving uncertainty, has been misunderstood. Blue chip consulting firms and investment banks - sultans of Pow...
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Is living longer, better?
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Statistics have been clear, humans are living longer (1). India, projected to be the most populous country in the world as the Chinese have ...
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Living on the edge
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A recent article published in the open access journal ZooKeys (1) shows that the 10 Km wide asteroid that impacted the Earth, 65 million yea...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
BELLA rules
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Recent news that the Berkeley Lab has achieved an energy of 4.25 Giga Volts in a miniature accelerator, 9 centimeters long on a desktop, con...
Friday, December 26, 2014
Simplification
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A recent paper in Nature and Communications that demonstrates that wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle in Physics can be ex...
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Irrational life
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Humans are often thought of as utilitarian, able to maximize individual and societal utility. In this scheme, however, life itself is irrati...
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