Will global warming drive us extinct? A review of Peter Ward’s “Under a Green...
Will global warming drive homo sapiens extinct? A review of: Ward, Peter D. 2007. Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future....
View ArticleBook Review of Kleveman’s 2003 “The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central...
[I posted this book review at yahoo group energyresources back in 2004 when the average American still thought the Iraq war was about weapons of mass destruction. It is still relevant today. Alice...
View ArticleReview of Schneider-Mayerson “Peak Oil Apocalyptic Environmentalism and...
I just finished a great book about life in Russia called “Nothing is true and everything is possible, the surreal heart of the new Russia” by Peter Pomerantsev. He reveals how Soviet propaganda is...
View Article13 fallacies of Steven Pinker’s “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why...
It only took me half an hour to find significant criticism of Pinker’s work and write this up. If I had more time I could find a lot more. Hopefully this will spare you many days of wasted time...
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Book review of Hillbilly Elegy and why hillbillies voted for Trump
Source: David Horsey / Los Angeles Times Preface. I bought “Hillbilly Elegy: A memoir of a family and culture in crisis” because I’d like to understand why anyone would vote for Donald Trump. Before...
View ArticleRare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on...
Preface. Capitalism believes there’s a solution for everything due to Man’s Inventive Brain, but when it comes to getting metals out of the earth, there are some very serious limitations. In parts...
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