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27 January 2013

Children Cannot Be Taught, But They Can Learn

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Children are not taught, they learn. How well and how much they will learn depends upon the skills that they master, long before they are ...
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20 January 2013

Habits are not Like Hobbits: They Don't Just Disappear

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Taken from an article published on Al Fin, the Next Level Even without magic rings, hobbits tend to disappear when one closes a book or ...

Peak Oil Doom In Context

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Previously published on Al Fin Energy ...Peak Oil catastrophism is largely a manifestation of our primary cultural myth: that all things...
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19 January 2013

Dooms that Failed: Resource Scarcity; Overpopulation; Climate Catastrophe

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Doom and utter devastation tend to get one's attention. The human mind is programmed to home in on signs and portents of doom or ca...
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17 January 2013

The Life Span of Empires: 250 Years?

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Previously published on abu al-fin Sir John Glubb was a British author and lecturer, who was decorated for his service in the Royal Engin...
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16 January 2013

A Place Where It Is Better to be Born

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In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to be warm “Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm” __ Bob Dy...
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15 January 2013

Everything You Think You Know, Just Ain't So

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Humans cannot perceive reality directly. Instead, the outside world is filtered through our various senses. Significant filtering and pre...
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14 January 2013

Oil Prices: Is the Fox Guarding the Hen House?

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Prices are not determined by the fundamentals in a manipulated market they are determined by oil being an “Asset Class” which is code word ...
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12 January 2013

Greenland Is Still Too Cold for the Vikings

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Around the time the Vikings disappear from the island’s archaeological record, temperature appears to have plunged. _ Source The Vikings ha...
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