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Republicans Brains are Wired to Deny Science & Reality
A book review by Alice Friedemann at energyskeptic.com of: Chris Mooney. 2012. “The Republican Brain. The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality”. We are all susceptible to over 250 cognitive biases, fallacies, and errors, regardless of what political party … Continue reading
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The Big 5 Personality Traits – psychobabble or science?
Alice Friedemann’s review of : Daniel Nettle. 2008. “Personality, What makes you the way you are”. Oxford University Press. Scientists have considered psychology to be a very soft science at best and quackery or psychobabble at worst. But psychology is … Continue reading
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Delay, Deny, Defend
Jay M. Feinman. 2010. Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claim and What You Can Do About It. Nearly all of the 3,500 families who burned down in the Oakland 1991 firestorm formed groups by insurance company to … Continue reading
Mao’s War Against Nature
Mao’s War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China by Judith Shapiro. 2001. Cambridge University Press (book review by Alice Friedemann) The main thesis of this book is that when free speech is squelched, the consequences can be … Continue reading
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The Back to the Land Movement: Why it Failed and Why we Need to Try Again Anyway
A review of: Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back As oil and natural gas decline, many of us will have to go back to the land. There is … Continue reading
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book list: energy, ecology, evolution, extinction, war, natural resources, carrying capacity, infrastructure, agriculture, politics and more
booklist pdf format booklist word format booklist excel format Unformatted book list The Big Picture Charles A. Hall, Kent Klitgaard Energy and the Wealth of Nations: Understanding the Biophysical Economy Uses science as the basis of economics – should … Continue reading
Summary of Greenpeace “Nuclear Reactor Hazards”
This is a summary of: Hirsch, H., et al. April 2005. Nuclear Reactor Hazards Ongoing Dangers of Operating Nuclear Technology in the 21st Century. A report prepared for Greenpeace International. Aging. Nuclear power plants (NPP) age in four ways at … Continue reading
After the Harvest – Keeping foot from rats, mold, insects, fire, and bacteria
Peter Golob, et. al. 2002. Crop Post-Harvest: Science and Technology. Volume 1 Principles and Practice. Volume 2 Durables. Volume 3 Perishables. Blackwell Science. Introduction It is amazing farmers can grow anything — crops can be destroyed by drought, wildfire, flood, … Continue reading
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Energy Security experts count how many angels can dance on the head of a pin
Sovacool, Benjamin (editor). 2011. The Routledge Handbook of Energy Security. Routledge. I’m feeling very insecure if the discussions and conclusions in this book at all represent the latest thinking of scholars on energy security. They remind me of the recent … Continue reading
I’d rather have an Ice Age
Stager, Curt. 2011. Deep Future. The next 100,000 years of life on earth. Thomas Dunne Books. Overall the tone of this book is don’t worry, there’s a lot we don’t know, and based on what we don’t know and how … Continue reading
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