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Of course the facts sound preposterous; they are preposterous. But they're true, and there's no trick. People have been explaining this fervently for 204 years; I've been one of them for 41 years. I'll eventually be presenting a history of what kept the news from those whose lives it would...
Freud's theory of the domestification of fire, presented as a footnote in Civilization and Its Discontents, pp 34-35: > Psychoanalytical material, while incomplete and impossible to interpret with any certainty, at least allows a surmise- a fantastic sounding one- about the origin of this great human achievement. It is as...
Last year my 4-year-old can of bear spray reached its expiry date, completely unused, and I wondered how sound the basis of that date was. Thus began a journey with a very strange end-point. I'm a lifelong student of sincere, accredited pseudoscience - passing for the real thing in academe...
Wavelength-selective agrivoltaics are here: solar panels that are transparent in the wavelengths chlorophyll can use, while generating electricity from other wavelengths. Meanwhile, the harvesting of water from even air people consider dry is an area of intensive development. Active systems use electric heat pumps to chill surfaces on which dew...
Ex-MIT physicist here, engaged (for 45 years at this point; I'm 69) in an attempt at 1. catalysis of social assimilation of a math fact at middle-school level, economic impact in the trillions annually, which has stalled for over 200 years, and 2. exposure of underlying interpretive corruption, culturally transmitted,...