If you go to a fast food restaurant and look at the menu, what do you see? Well, there are probably many answer to that question, but for the purposes of this piece, the answer is cheese, and lots of it. You can get cheese on practically everything these days, and it feels like fast …
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181 CEOs Promise to Put People Over Profit: Altruism or Alarm?
25 August 2019 – Last week an organization known as the Business Roundtable met. This group is composed of the top CEOs in the United States, and is composed of almost 200 individuals. On 19 August the organization released a press release that highlighted their new determination to put people over profits. This document mentioned …
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What’s the Dam Problem?
18 August 2019 – No, that is not a misspelling in the title. One of the best titles on an academic paper I have ever seen was “Dam Nation,” which was a survey of American dams and their effects on the environment. The second best title I have seen was “How Green is My Value,” …
Let’s Abolish All Collegiate & High School Varsity Sports
11 August 2019 – With a controversial title like that, I’d better have some good arguments to back up my call for action. Fear not, I do. If you live in the United States, then it is possible that college sports are an important part of your life. Perhaps you follow March Madness or have …
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Analyzing Societal Divisions: Double and Triple Movements
4 August 2019 – Democrat-Republican. Left-right. Liberal-conservative. If you listen to the mainstream media, these are the lines which divide our society and are reinforced every day on many news channels. You are also probably sick to death of hearing about the polarizing arguments that dominate the major media stations. Turn on any particular news …
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The Technological Promise
28 July 2019 – In 1833, the German-born inventor John Adolphus Etzler looked upon a world being rapidly transformed by the steam engine and mass production related to the industrial revolution. He saw a world that was extremely close to being transformed into a Utopia, and believed that with the available technology of the time, …
That Time When Humanity Came Together and Agreed to Save Itself
21 July 2019 – Many international treaties either fail abysmally or do not even come close to achieving what they were supposed to do. But we’re not here to discuss those treaties today. This post is about the Montreal Protocol of 1987, a shining example of human cooperation on the international scale. In 1985, a …
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Green Energy Advocates vs. An Unfortunate Misconception
14 July 2019 – Yesterday I was collecting some petitions for an environmental group, and heard many erroneous and disheartening opinions about clean energy from people I talked to. This blog is dedicated to all those misguided folks. The fact that we need to move to a system of 100% renewable energy is obvious. This …
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Hybrid Aquatic Mammal Confirmed: Narluga
7 July 2019 – The ocean is a fascinating place full of creatures that look like they came straight from a science fiction novel. We know less about the ocean floor than we know about the surface of the moon. Recently, however, one small mystery of the ocean was solved when scientists were able to …
Charting the Charters Chart II: The Chartering
30 June 2019 – This week is a continuation of last week’s post on the history of corporate charters, the contracts common in the early United States that outlined what corporations could and could not do. Now, here is the rest of this fascinating page-turner. (Screen scroller? Is that a term anyone uses? If no …
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