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Yesterday I wrote about Stephen Hawking’s recent call for space colonization. Today I want to link what I said to some things …
3 min read Musings

At the beginning of “An Inconvenient Truth” Al Gore shows the audience two iconic Apollo images, Earthrise and Blue Marble. I remember …
5 min read Musings

It’s the fourth of July and America is celebrating Independence Day. I can hear people setting off fireworks. The windows are …
1 min read Observing

“My mind’s distracted and confused..” for some reason that snippet of Simon and Garfunkel popped into my head this evening as I …
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I was listening to Siamese Dream today by the Smashing Pumpkins while out running errands. It’s a perfect piece of early 1990s …
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A few weeks ago there was a reading group discussion at SI about a couple of articles on Cyberwork. I wasn’t able to attend, but …
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So what have I been writing about during the past month. June was the month when I decided to return to regular blogging. So far …
2 min read Recaps

The March-April issue of Foreign Affairs contained an article by Alan Blinder on “Offshoring: the Next Industrial Revolution?” He …
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I confess to being a weather nerd for a long time. I remember play acting as a weatherman back in elementary school. This was when the …
1 min read Musings

The Ann Arbor Transportation Authority has changed the sound of the ‘stop requested’ bell on their buses sometime in the …
4 min read Favorites, Musings