Hence the topic is unimportant except as conduit for researcher and mentor to share an advance in knowledge, skill or awareness of talent. That you have potential, and someone else knows about it and is rooting for you.
This is I think the basis of prayer, distance healing, family love and support, and even football fandom. For the team feels supported in the dressing room, and so does the crowd on the terrace as well as in the debriefing and on the bus or at work later. TV takes this a step more dilute: there IS a tenuous two-way interaction between the celeb on set and the lonely viewer.
The first paragraph will be posted on the notschool blog. The second is for ice and milk groupies to shred if you dare.
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( 3 / 218 )If you’ve read this far and want some light relief, you might glance at brewster’s first googleblog called physicslog . Only one piece so far, so you’ll be safe. The current plan – as if I ever planned anything – is to learn to blog well enough to put the whole notschool in blog and on googledocss. It occurs that admin could be on googlesheets too.
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( 3 / 146 )None are original, this is a first collection. Please add to them.
Few will agree with all these ideas, but the alternatives range from a few breeding pairs of warlords wandering arctic sands to our extinction.
Engineering
A large window of reflective foil at the Legrange point where there is no gravity between Sun and earth.
Undersea nuclear heating stations to bring nutrients to the barren blue surface for algae to grow and absorb carbon.
Greening the deserts with natural life forms that evolved there
Focussing solar energy by reflection onto the surface of the sea, to increase coastal rainfall.
Breeding algae along the shoreline in tanks of desalinated water, so the biomass traps carbon and provides food.
Research
Researching all conventions about transport, housing, agriculture, education and politics of groups. This may lead to cancelling car emissions, layered and nuclear family dwellings, no agrichemicals, happy schools and open government by reason.
Researching the effects on us during gestation of molecules that look, feel and act like our hormones.
Beliefs. Pace utopia-realists.
Sharia law works. Sharia offers security, a simple code, and community action for all problems. It also spreads where other law fails, causing evalgelists to have the high ground.believers multiply.
Develop a short set of principles (as in Botswana at independence, like mutual support, self-reliance, ..) we all agree on, and send to a fenced Coventry in a hot country the dissenters, the rebels, the rogue breeders and the incompetent.
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( 3 / 139 )Will this Canute action help or hinder foss in learning? Unexpected consequences says yes, the angry programmers are likely to get new jobs, but the anger will simmer and spoil over into being more creative, writing for an appreciative audience, knowing others can use and build on your work without paying royalties and corporate bonuses to chiefs and claques.
The real doom for capitalism is that the power of regulation is being very publicly abused by big business, using underhand methods not mentioned in the BBC piece. Nothing new here, except for the power of the dispossessed. Creative communities do not enjoy slavery. Traditionally they have set about becoming slave masters, owners of a new empire with new evils. The religious which includes the consumerists among us, have a mission to subvert evil empires. Between these two extremes lies the middle road of nudging the empire. Given online power, it is possible that good will emerge. For a while.
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( 2.9 / 122 )Recent press speculation on nuclear cars of all things – build the bomb into a car to save terrorists the hassle – is so surprisingly positive that the deeper message of our need for fission surely underlies it. The writers of the pieces may not know it, probably don’t or they would speculate and share the new buzz, but senior commissioning editors will be aware of our need for more energy than the alternatives can give this century.
While we are still irresponsible about transport, housing, heating, consumerism, breeding and feeding newly power-crazed oilocracies, the bottom line is we will need nuclear power.
The hard part for our political process is undoing the negative image of fission. Hence the growing cross-party collaboration here in UK and in the States.
There is logic in this: burnt fossils are changing our IQ and our genes by their pollution. The west in choosing nuclear over fossil will also have the high ground of experience for when people-decay in the first two lion economies forces a tidy up.
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