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Part 1 of The Rock, The Wave and The Swan: Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock...
I started Susan Casey’s book The Wave over the 2010 winter holiday. I looked forward to positively reviewing the book. With the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear emergency in Japan in early...
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Part 2: The Rock, The Wave and The Swan: The Wave by Susan Casey
This is Part 2 of my 3 part book review post entitled, The Rock, The Wave and The Swan. In Part 1, I examined The Rock by reviewing Tom Zoellner’s book Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped...
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Bound Together by People, Places and a Canoe
In Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization, Nayan Chanda writes an easy to read narrative hopping around the world and across prehistoric, ancient and...
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Part 3: The Rock, The Wave and The Swan: The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
This is Part 3 of my 3 part book review post entitled, The Rock, The Wave and The Swan. In Part 1, I examined The Rock by reviewing Tom Zoellner’s book Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped...
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The Overview Effect, Beyond The Mayan Ending
The below Nasa video opens, “If you are watching this video, it means one thing, the world didn’t end yesterday.” Congratulations. December 21, 2012 came and went. The misinterpreted Mayan calendar end...
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The Third Industrial Revolution by Jeremy Rifkin
An enlightened individual recommended I read Jeremy Rifkin’s (@jeremyrifkin) book, The Third Industrial Revolution – How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, The Economy and the World (2011). Based...
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Nova’s Must Watch Satumentary: Earth From Space
Watch Earth from Space on PBS. See more from NOVA. The next time you are on a plane, look down. I mean really look down. Not when you are taking off and you expect to see urban society but when you...
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The Nesting of Nature in Machine
Last weekend, I took my car in for an oil change. The low oil indicator came on and off I went to Jiffy Lube. I waited in the waiting room for a couple of minutes and then went out to talk to the Jiffy...
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