High Hopes for Boreama
US President Barack Obama was inaugurated this week. President of the USA is an unusual job. There are not many jobs where they throw you a really big party on your first day. I guess it makes sense for Presidents, [...]
Making Work for Ourselves (Part Two)
In part one, I imagined a scenario where one hundred people, selected at random, are stranded on a desert island. They have no hope of escape, but they can survive indefinitely thanks to the resources available to them. In fact, [...]
Making Work for Ourselves (Part One)
Suppose that you and ninety-nine other people are stranded on a desert island. You are lucky, in that the island has all the natural resources – water, food, materials to build shelter – that you will need to survive indefinitely. [...]
Going Around in Circles
It is a new year. What is so new about it? Anyone born before 2008 will have been here before, at least on a cosmic scale. We inhabitants of the Earth have completed one orbit of the Sun since the [...]
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