News Amuses#1 (New Scientist):- Rejected male flies turn to alcohol. The metabolic paths involved are very similar to those in humans. I guess rejected females do too, but then they...
Does Humanity Benefit from Free Trade?
Roland presented his dire view of free trade in http://www.if-blog.de/rd/auch-so-ein-marchen. Soon after, the Templeton Foundation circulated some powerful arguments for free trade under the title "Free Markets are Morally Good"....
Evolution and Religion
I post this now, although I wrote it originally as a comment. On 20.07.11, about 150 of us were privileged to get free food and drinks at Interface, and to...
Solar Diesel
I read an article that suggested that cars in future will be fuelled with hydrogen. So I have written up my doubts about this. I am no expert, but some...
Energy Forum
On 10/9/2011, from 9:30 till 18:00, I attended a Burger Conference in the Deutsches Museum (Munich), on the subject of Energy Technologies for the Future. It was commissioned by the...
Competing Countries
Recently I saw a piece on TV about two Japanese graduate twins and their jobs in Tokyo and Shanghai respectively. The tenor was that all is fine in China, but...
AAADD – KNOW THE SYMPTOMS
Soon after reading about Roland's symptoms in IF-Blog, I received an email that describes my symptoms, (although the details are slightly different). I post it so that people of my...
Direct Democracy? No thank you!
Chris Wood beurteilt die Forderungen nach einer direkten Demokratie, die immer wieder aufkommen.
Controversy among Darwinists?
I have recently heard and read about controversy among Darwinists. Some researchers are perhaps claiming to overthrow the "Selfish Gene" idea. But this is all much less exciting than it...
An Evil Atmosphere
The latest New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/) carries an article about injecting SO2 into the stratosphere. Observations of giant volcano eruptions have shown that this could reduce world temperature by 1 or...