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Explaining the inexplicable

As I type this, a certain orange person and his enablers have taken a flawed, but mostly positive economy and smashed it headlong into a brick wall, while simultaneously destroying decades of stable trade relationships with allies. All the while, absolutely gutting the vital government services that millions of his citizens depend on. The people […]

Five Interesting Things #19

Time again for five interesting things: stuff you should know, stuff you might want to take action about, stuff you can share. Flower power: Ever heard of phyto-mining? Or Phyto-remediation? It’s the process of using plants to extract things from the soil. New Scientist is reporting on an Albania start up farming plants to harvest […]

It’s time to “flood the zone” with truth

As I wrote in a previous piece, Steve Bannon’s playbook is: “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.” Bannon’s strategy here, one employed with great success by Trump so far, is to disorient the public, destroy trust, and blitzkrieg the press (and […]

The grey goo scenario is happening

In 1986, a fellow by the name of K. Eric Drexler wrote a book called Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology. What got a lot of hype at the time was a small section describing the potential for a catastrophic scenario, where tiny self-replicating machines could get out of control and consume all […]

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