Category: English

Anonymous: Open Letter To The World

I'll just leave this here, and the link to the discussion on Reddit. more »

We are an unstoppable oil-dependency-breaking machine

Unfortunately, this machine runs on oil: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cAn Energy-Independent Futurewww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party We're not addicted to fossil fuels, we can stop anytime w… more »

We can't all be wealthy consumers

In a world with unlimited resources, we could. Robots would be making all the stuff while we'd have a lot of time to go shopping (if this sounds like a nightmare to you, replace "shopping" with "curing diseases", "exploring space", "building better robo… more »

We need to make some fundamental changes

Bob Herbert latest op-ed in the New York Times doesn't contain anything we don't know already, which is precisely why it is such a remarkable column.Herbert is "amazed at how passive the population has remained" as "gamblers and con artists of the fi… more »

Two links for the weekend

1. Hope: Taleb's "Ten principles for a Back Swan-proof world" [..] we will see an economic life closer to our biological environment: smaller companies, richer ecology, no leverage. A world in which entrepreneurs, not bankers, take the risks and compa… more »