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Category Archives: Books
DOGE could have been great. Instead it blew everything up
Preface. You may remember that a movement called “Code for America” founded in 2009, used technology to improve government services and make them more efficient and accessible. This post is a book review of Pahlka’s 2023 “Recoding America” about how … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Corruption & Finance
Tagged book review, Code for America, corruption, DOGE, Recoding America
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The Nuclear Bomb is Back!
Preface. If you are not worried about nuclear war anymore, you should be. We have accidentally come close so many times.
Nuclear power is not the solution
Preface. This is a book review of Ramana’s “Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change.” A great overview that covers many topics, one of the best out there, and most recent. … Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear Books, Nuclear Power Energy, Nuclear War
Tagged nuclear, power, storage, war, waste, weapons
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Chemical industrial farming does not work: Pests evolve immunity quickly
Pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides destroy soil and ecosystems. Yet a third of crops are lost to pests just as in the many millennia of farming before chemicals Preface. This is a book review of Dyer’s “Chasing the Red Queen”, and … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity Loss, Chemical Pollution, Chemicals, Overshoot, Peak Food, Pesticides, Soil
Tagged agriculture, chemical, ecosystem, herbicide, insecticide, peak food, pesticide, soil, unsustainable
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The Mayflower from the book The Barbarous Years
Preface. It was recently Thanksgiving so I thought I’d post something from Mann’s 1491 about the pilgrims that I later found out was grievously wrong from an expert who gives lectures on the Mayflower history. Here is a more subtle, … Continue reading
Book review of “Livewired. The inside story of the ever-changing brain”
Preface. This book conveys a sense of wonderment and awe about our brains work and how we become who we are. I think if you read the excerpts below you will understand why Artificial Intelligence will probably never come close … Continue reading
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Evolution
Tagged artificial intelligence, brain, neurons
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Book review of “Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID”
Preface. This is a book review of “Pandemic Politics” about the myriad ways Trump mishandled the covid-19 pandemic. With the 2024 election coming up, it is a good time to remember how spectacularly Trump failed in managing covid-19. In 2016 … Continue reading
Posted in Pandemics, Political Books, Politics
Tagged covid-19, pandemic, partisan, politics, Trump
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Why some people are conservative and others liberal
Preface. A book review of: Garcia, H. 2019. Sex, Power, and Partisanship. How evolutionary science makes sense of our political divide. Although Chris Mooney’s book “The Republican Brain” was brilliant, it didn’t address that politics must surely go back to … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Human Nature, Political Books, Politics
Tagged big 5 personality traits, conservative, Democrat, falacy, liberal, politics, Republican
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Book Review “Conservatives without Conscience” by John Dean
Preface. This is a book review of “Conservatives without Conscience” by John Dean. It is the best book I’ve read in explaining the history of conservatism and authoritarianism. Almost a year before Trump was elected in 2016, Politico wrote that … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Thinking, Human Nature, Pat Robertson, Political Books, Politics
Tagged conservatives, evangelical, fascism, fundamentalist, Republican, sociopath
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