Nineteen million trees are cut down each year to publish both the White and Yellow Pages phone books. As if that isn’t bad enough, there’s also a lot of energy used: 7.2 million barrels of oil and 3 billion kilowatt hours of consumption, as well as 268,000 cubic yards of landfill. And that’s BEFORE we [...]
Aurthur Clarke (2001: A space Odyssey), said that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
And this time of year, what’s more magic than the ability of one fat guy to circumnavigate the globe delivering presents. Well, turns out there’s a gentleman who can give us insights into just how that happens. He explains it’s [...]
Saw a video this weekend about the “dangers” of groin-to-groin front hugs among teens. We’ll go out on a limb here, and guess most mature people think there are better topics to rally against than the front hug. Of course, this group offers an alternative called the “Christian Side Hug.” (Believe me, I am NOTÂ [...]
Conventional wisdom says this next generation will be the first “not to live as well as their parents.”
I think that’s too subjective. Who says to live better you need a larger house, fancier car, nicer clothes, and affordable health care to remove genital warts… well, the last one they’ll need…
The fact is, the “next generation” [...]
“Every brilliant innovation in the history of technology looked a little looney when first proposed.” says Kenneth Caldeira, climatologist at Carnegie Institution of Global Ecology at Stanford University.
After running complex computer models, Caldeira, and much of the climate-focused scientific community seems to be intrigued by Ron Ace’s proposal for how to cool the planet. Ace, [...]
I believe human creativity is a much bigger factor in how well things are done vs. technology.
For example, it’s understood that fixing global warming can’t be done by technology… it’s gonna take humans to make the difference, or use technology in a creative way.
Another example: give a website project (ad, email campaign, etc.) to 10 [...]
There’s been lots of talk about streetcars in Columbus. This is a case where the romanticism of streetcars isn’t so practical in today’s world.
I read a letter in The Dispatch from someone who was around when the last streetcars were in town, and he rattled off all kinds of practical problems for electric streetcars today’s [...]