All Things Considered today gave the usual calm treatment the remarkably incongruous claim by news anchor Glen Beck to the mantle of Dr. Martin Luther King this weekend. An minister who had attended the “ecumenical” political gathering pointed to how the number of children born without married parents had gone up dramatically since […]
How in trying to “save the environment” most people choose symbolic energy savings, instead of responding to what “the experts” point to as having real effects, is the theme of the NY times blog “Dot Earth” post Misperceived Paths to Energy Savings. It’s sadly also “the experts” themselves who are the very worst […]
Excerpt from my home page Bio
What happened to wreck my life, it now appears,
…is that after completing a really wonderful education combining physics and environmental design I did some independent research when in Denver, and discovered a rather effective new method of physical science research. It let me investigate how individual complex environmental systems […]
My friend George posted a good article on modeling the approaching decline of energy returns on energy invested in the earth (EROI), and I mentioned “the Catch”.
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One of the difficulties with feedback models is that they all need to assume the parts are following rules.
How economies work, of course, is with” animate learning-bots” (us), all […]
The whole story of growth and money, a simple resource using natural trade economy.
As in a four person market economy, shown with two resource providing and two resource consuming trades, people create wealth by exchanging complementary goods in exchange for money. Growth comes as each learns how to do things better and the resources hold […]
Regarding an article in the NY Times, A Richter Scale for Markets and to Dirk Helbing’s letter to Soros on the new physics exploring the great disruptive events our economies so frequently produce.
To Xavier Gabaix, w/ H. Eugene Stanley - authors of the study referred to: A theory of power-law distributions in Financial market
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The term […]