That was the title of one of my favorite books a long time ago, written by Will Cuppy. I was reminded of this kind of lighthearted zen theory of the world after I recently read a 2005 interview with Linus Torvalds: I just don’t believe in dynasties. Things erode over time. Successes start to take … Continue reading The decline and fall of practically everybody
The battle-field is always a place for cutting-edge (pun not intended) technology. Plastic surgery, for example, was apparently developed to handle the horrible toll on humans in WWI: Never before had physicians been required to treat so many and such extensive facial and head injuries. Shattered jaws, blown-off noses and lips and gaping skull wounds … Continue reading Battlefield risks and medical tech
NOAA offers some interesting insights in their “Poetry Corner“: What do poetry, engineers, and scientists have in common? The NOAA Poetry Corner, home of weather poems, survey poems, and ocean poems written by the men and women who served in NOAA or its ancestor agencies. […] All these poems help tell the story of the … Continue reading NOAA Poetry
As I have pointed out before, here and here and here and here, US security may be most at risk from Chinese economic superiority (if not global environmental issues undermining economic sustainability). If you think of it in terms of the conflict between the US and USSR during the Cold War, who was the “victor” … Continue reading US warned on China (again)