Sunday, March 17, 2024

How Immigration Contributed to the Fall of the Roman Empire

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They say that those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it. When I learned several years back about the factors that contr...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

The TikTok Saga Illustrates How Andy Grove Was Right: Only the Paranoid Survive

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"Do you want to hear one more? This one's a real knee-slapper." The House of Representatives has approved a bill to cut off Ti...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Shrinkflation Is Not A Joke, It's Inflation

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"Remembering" (AI-e collaboration) If I am a baker and the cost of flour goes up, and the taxes on my bakery building go up, and t...
Saturday, March 9, 2024

Elias Carver's Forlorn Farewell

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In the quiet expanse of the Midwest, a man named Elias Carver moved through the motions of his mundane existence, oblivious to the imminent ...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Copernicus, Galileo, and Free Speech -- There Are Lessons Here

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At the Galileo Museum in Florence. What do you do if you're an outlier, ahead of the curve on a matter of historical or social significa...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Fitzcarraldo's Eccentric Audacity

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A few weeks back I watched the Werner Herzog film Fitzcarraldo , starring Klaus Kinski. At its core, Fitzcarraldo is a story about obsessio...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

From Ancient Efforts to Modern Miracles: The Ever-Evolving Story of Cataract Surgery

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Yesterday, my wife Susie had cataract surgery. When the process was explained it stimulated many questions. How did doctors learn how to do ...