Showing posts with label entrepreneurs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label entrepreneurs. Show all posts
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Brain Drain

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Catching up on the weekends is difficult and I should have written this ten days ago when I first found the bifold handout in an engineering...
Monday, June 10, 2024

Jim Simons and the Quants

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Being centered on mathematicians, this book was not exciting, but it was interesting. James Harris “Jim” Simons (1938-2024) earned his docto...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

World Peace Through World Trade

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I stopped at Walmart because they have the best organic salad greens in a box at a price even lower than Whole Foods. Usually, it is a quick...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Massive Constellations of Artificial Satellites: What if they were natural?

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Many of my colleagues in astronomy, both professional and amateur, are vocal in their opposition to Starlink, the SpaceX project that is pla...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Virgin Galactic VX01 VX03

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 A picture is worth a thousand words. NASA-TV cut between its own feed and the press feed from Unity 22. These are all sequential as present...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

The Audacity of Entrepreneurship

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"What comes out of a team or a committee is the most daring idea that the least daring man can accept." John Arnold. "Space, ...
Monday, September 7, 2020

The Pencil: History, Design, and Circumstance

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The book opens and closes with the fact that the pencil’s ubiquity rendered it invisible. On pages 5 and 346 the author tells of being unabl...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

The GOP as Pushy Beggars

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That Donald Trump is a bully is obvious. His influence on the Republican Party and conservatives is also apparent. Back in late October 2016...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

TURN THE SHIP AROUND

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“Ahead two-thirds,” said the Captain. “Ahead two-thirds,” repeated the officer of the deck. The helm did nothing. They sat there, both of t...