Edison Thanks for those references. In my career I used thermodynamics in assessing the performance of gas turbine engines so I had appreciable experience with...
Zerohedge regularly, in fact normally, cites economists and in fact presents it's arguments for economic collapse through the economics models that exist. To...
The ususal story of expounding when the wager goes wrong and silence if not jubilation when the wager goes right. We complained about insane house loans...
The discussion below is interesting for its mix of the intangible information with the tangible operation of systems, including organisms such as humans. The...
The exerpt below leads to the wrong conclusion about a living thing through a misunderstanding of entropy. A living thing is not a closed system as it has food...
Tom says I should use established physical principles. I believe the growth of organisms encompasses physical principles that have been established over eons....
The Yomiuri Shimbun Japan and Russia likely will reach a broad agreement as early as this month on business plans for a liquefied natural gas plant project in...
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/papers/pfc92.pdf *THE ADAPTED MIND: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J....
As usual, no one thinks about the future. Instead of selling the gas now, we should keep in reserve for our own future generations. The Finnish author Henrik...
... Subject: Everyone's Buzzing About This Cute Little Girl Who Slams Canada's Version of the Federal Reserve Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 08:57:22 -0400 From:...
________________________________ From: peter salonius [petersalonius@...] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 11:20 AM Hello to all The common belief is that...
Sorry, Virginia , that reads just like the denials blurted out after the Limits to Growth was published.....and those limits are being reached now. Frank...
LOMA LA LATA, Argentina — In a desertlike stretch of scrub grass and red buttes, oil companies are punching holes in the ground in search of what might be...
The comments below provide insight into typical anthropocentric thinking that is making a major contribution to the operations that are ensuring the demise of...
Jay Tell me how your thoughts are tangible. You quote the definition of tangible then say thought is tangible. You say that thought obeys the laws of physics....
So what did the public learn from the .com era of the late 1990's? Judging from the response to the Facebook selloff....very little to absolutely nothing. ...
Denis, Attaboy! I wish more people would read biology. The mind is a computer, it's a very unusual computer, but it's a computer. Functional MRI machines can...
The comment below is a typical fallacious anthropocentric view. It comments on how advances in technology are contributing to an increase in the rate of...
A more stark picture comes when looking at more specialized grades. Take Indonesia’s Minas crude, which is often used for direct burning in power plants, and...
Jay You say the mind is like a computer. I agree. But that is not relevant to the issue about thoughts being tangible or intangible. Information in a computer...
Interesting one this, Denis. Given that your brain is made up of billions of specialised cells called neurons, and these cells reach out and form thousands of...
Dear Colleagues, We would like to remind you of the abstract submission for the *2nd International Workshop on Integration of Solar Power into Power Systems ...
Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html Jonathan Haidt: Religion,...
