BBC summary of the state of the art/business https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/how-to-grow-food-in-a-concrete-jungle/ BBC TV Series: Follow the Food: Urban … [Read more...]
Kind people are suffering from cruelty sickness
First, I apologize to my BMG community friends for being AWOL as I've been immersed in my local Wakefield April 27 town election, consulting/volunteering/organizing for our progressive slate of four candidates for Council/School Committee … [Read more...]
Crickets?
The last comment I see is my own from six days ago. The last diary I see is from johntmay yesterday (7-Apr-2021) also with no comments. I also notice that the "Recommended Posts" pane says "No posts liked yet". I wonder if the site is … [Read more...]
Happy Wednesday, April 7th.
More than 57,000 kids applied to Harvard this year, competing for one of the 1,600 available seats for the Class of 2025. The application fee is $75. Over four million dollars was spent on this and one can only guess how many labor … [Read more...]
Geotherapy Not Geoengineering, Please
Geotherapy not geoengineering, please. "Geotherapy refers to the process of restoring the earth’s health by strengthening natural biogeochemical and physiological mechanisms that regulate the earth’s planetary life support systems and … [Read more...]
Monopolies, advertising, and speech
Here is an interview about censorship and social media (this is the old Section 230 discussion that I, for a long time, could not make sense of). You have to get past a (pardon me) sexual organ joke in the prelude. The URL above skips all … [Read more...]
Zero Net Energy – March 24, 2021
Making a wooden solar insolation visualization https://youtu.be/PvcvY4ToFaQ https://www.makingdatatangible.com/solar/ - program to help you make your own https://pysolar.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ - a collection of Python libraries for … [Read more...]
Demand universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons
And while you're at it, screw the filabusta and Manchin. That is all. For now. … [Read more...]
Shakespeare got it right
"A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing." William Shakespeare Resemblance to any person living or dead is purely … [Read more...]
The 2016 and 2020 Polls, and a Crisis of Social Trust
The 2016 election polls showed Hillary Clinton beating Trump handily. This is an old story, but worth a closer look. David Shor spoke about this on the Bill Maher show. Shor is the shy, self effacing boy genius who entered college at 13, … [Read more...]