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The good news is: A pdf file arrived today. It contains what appear to be copies of original documents, followed by detailed drawings to make a loom. The bad news is: The gent who sent the file says it still contains a Smithsonian marker of some kind, so it can only be used for personal study. I ** ...

It is time to bring this topic back to the active display. A documentary about Edward O. Wilson ran on a local station recently. Wilson's thesis that humans share eusociality with ants, bees and a very small number of other insect species rang true for me. It supports my belief that the key for succ...

Indoor agriculture is continuing to receive investment. A recent evening news report showed examples of installations in several locations in the US, and there are sites in other nations. Advocates of different methods are competing, and that's good! Misting, dripping and total immersion are the thr...

"Avuncular Pumpkin" was defined as a search term for this forum, on September 13th. As of October 3rd, the term was still not found by Google. The challenge for Dr. Dartnell's IT support team may be the fact that the forum exists as a branch from the main web site. It is possible that sear...

Thomas Sewel is a columnist whose writings tend to provoke critical thinking. A recent column contained a paragraph that stimulates this post: Begin Quotation: Any serious look at the history of human beings over the millennia shows that the species began in poverty. It is not poverty, but prosperit...

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/makers/how-to-grow-citrus-indoors-128869825810.html?nf=1 Google search string: how-to-grow-citrus-indoors The article is adapted from: Modern Farmer ‎September‎ ‎24‎, ‎2015 by Virginia C. McGuire Information hinted at but not supplied is the nutrient mix described as avai...

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This is an account of the collapse of the civilized world of the Late Bronze age. The author is professor of classics at George Washington University. Link to brief review: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10185.html What I find striking is the sophistication of the pluralistic civilization, and it...

http://www.worldcat.org is a free online catalog of books and other media. It covers several countries. It is possible to check on the progress of distribution of The Knowledge around the world. During a review on 2015/09/21, I found the book listed in: Audiobook on CD Print Book London Print Book N...

It has been discovered that the robots.txt file is misbehaving on the discuss.the-knowledge.org web site. While investigating, I found that Google provides tools to report problems reported by their web crawler software: Begin Quotation: Crawl errors Site crawl errors report NEXT: ANDROID APPLICATIO...