Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Financing a Revolution

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Louis Kossuth (1802-1894) spent his life in politics, working for Hungarian independence. He participated in nationalist, liberal reform mo...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Ma Kiley: Railroad Telegrapher

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Thomas C. Jepsen’s biography, Ma Kiley: the Life of a Railroad Telegrapher (Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, 1997) com...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

The Code Book

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In the University of Texas library stacks, looking for the early history of word processors, I was in the Zs and discovered that my book on ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Merry Newtonmas 2013

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, 'Let Newton be'  and all was light. Alexander Pope Sir Isaac Newto...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

CIRCUMFERENCE

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Democritus of Abdera posited the existence of atoms. Aristotle accurately described the embryology of the chick.  Aristarchus put the sun a...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

Stand Up and Be Counted

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Electronic voting makes election fraud even easier. Here in Travis County, no audit trail exists. The process of voting leaves no physical t...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Shrugging the Stigma of Success

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Returning to his alma mater at the University of Texas, Dr. Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute spoke to a packed lecture...
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Sunday, December 1, 2013

Epigenetics

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It is not surprising that we share 98.9% of our genome with chimpanzees.  It is challenging to consider that we have about the same number ...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Freedom in an Unfree World

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Government regulations, taxes, international crises, burning issues, social restrictions … You can feel enclosed by despair. Harry Browne’s...
Friday, November 22, 2013

City Air Makes You Free

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The city is literally civilization.  Cities - not nations or American “states” - are the engines of creation and progress. Geniuse...