One of the imperatives arising from Dr. Dartnell's initiative in publishing "The Knowledge" is the realization is the best way of dealing with apocalypse is to prevent if from happening in the first place. One of many weaknesses of the current global infrastructure is reliance on a small n...
The day-by-day campaign to contact registered members by private mail came to an end today. The total of "members" "contacted" is 76. The computer generated memberships were wearing me down, but the realization finally hit me that when I use my own IP address to test the web site...
The day-by-day process of sending email to all the "registered members" in the forum database reached record #68 today. Most of the "members" appear to be robot generated memberships, but one or two (apparently) "real people" are in the mix. Hopefully the number of &quo...
The movie "The Martian" (and the book upon which it is based) contain the elements of an idea which might be of interest to a number of people. The focus of this message is the proposition that potatoes can be grown indoors. Those were real plants, and that was a real garden shown growing ...
A recovering civilization, let alone the existing one, would do well to study the work of W. Edwards Deming, who is credited with giving the Japanese a way of thinking about the manufacturing process that allowed them to out perform their American competitors, and to secure a lasting place on the gl...