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Friday, January 01, 2016

Superseded by machinery

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source He was one of that large class of purely mechanical and perfectly mediocre persons connected with the practice of the law who ...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

WWII: the war in the airwaves

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( Pic source) We watched " Ice Cold In Alex " yet again, a few days ago. A classic, and a dream for lager marketing men (Dad ...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

College education and the 1944 GI Bill

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One of the first things I learned from reading Donleavy's "The Ginger Man" was that WW2 veterans were entitled (among other b...
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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Drinking

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I'm reading J P Donleavy's first - notorious - book, "The Ginger Man". I was intrigued years ago by his sparky titles (...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Walls

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All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they themselves have built, and most: men die in silence and unnoticed behind th...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Energy and liberty

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An excellent long-range thinkpiece by Nick at Capitalistsatwork , looking at the energy landscape in the wake of the closure of the UK's...
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Elite scientists

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Sackerson sent  this interesting link  about elite scientists and their tendency to retard the evolution of new ideas until they peg out. ...
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