Sunday, May 31, 2015

Peace is More Powerful

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Imagine a successful protest in Berlin 1943 against the Holocaust.  Between February 27 and March 6, about 200 German women stood outside a...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Armies Without Weapons

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Not all military units engage in combat.  Chaplains and medics are easy examples. Twenty-two  Thirteen American states  states and territor...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Leadership

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In my personal life and professional life I have always worked best alone, and second best as a supporter. I do not join many clubs.  When ...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

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Paul Erdős was easily the most influential mathematician of the 20 th century, and arguably so for all time.  He published 1475 papers alm...
Monday, May 4, 2015

Casa Brasil Coffee

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Austin runs on cerebral energy.  Dell, Inc., is headquartered here, of course, but even South by Southwest gives top billing to mathemat...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Evolution vs. God

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The premise is that Darwinian evolution is unproved and unprovable. It is accepted on faith, passed to students on the authority of profess...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Happy May Day, Comrades

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"Defending Capitalism Against Ayn Rand" by Steven Farron on Liberty Unbound, the website successor to R. William Bradford's ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Sunday at the Co-op

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A co-operative recognizes the reinforcing roles of consumer and producer.   I discovered something of truism that at any marketplace with h...
Monday, April 27, 2015

THE DRUNKEN ASTRONOMERS

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This year’s vernal equinox brought a solar eclipse that was visible across northern Eurasia. To view totality, you had to be on the Faroe I...