Archive for 2018

Taking a holiday break

I'm taking a short break from posting this week. I expect to post again on Sunday, January 6.

I'm beginning to think that unmanned aerial vehicles—usually referred to as drones—are going to be next year's must-have Christmas g...

In his bestselling book, Up the Organization , former Avis president Robert Townsend captured the problem of automation precisely. Writing a...

Uber remains a darling of the tech world. It is regarded as a disruptive upstart that recognized the unused capacity of privately-owned auto...

If only Bayer, the German pharmaceutical and agricultural seed and chemical giant, had bothered to ask around before acquiring the American-...

I'm taking a short break from posting this week. I expect to post again on Sunday, December 2.

There's a reason that few people are thinking about world grain supplies. Last year saw record worldwide production of grains and record...

The increasing connectedness of the global economic system has long been touted as the path to greater prosperity and peaceful relations amo...

A frequent critique of the daily news flow is that it is filled with negative events. This is partly a product of the human nervous system. ...

I'm tempted to say the following to the writers of two recent pieces ( here and here ) outlining the continuing negative free cash flow...

Knowledge is power. The instructions for making viruses from synthetic strands of DNA are on the internet. And, the strands themselves are a...

Anyone who has followed the climate change issue in the last 30 years knows that official forecasts provided by the Intergovernmental Panel ...

I'm taking a short break from posting this week. I expect to post again on Sunday, October 14.

The United States government has now officially embraced climate change as a catastrophe in the making. Only it contends that the catastroph...

Alfred Korzybski , the father of general semantics , first uttered what must now seem like a well-worn phrase: "The map is not the terr...

"The Expanse" is a popular science fiction television series (based on a book series of the same name) that at first seems to fol...