Keith O. Rattie, in a speech at Utah Valley University, April 2, 2009, "Energy Myths and Realities" — excellent!
]]>This handbook is extremely well done. And, if it's not correct, it deserves a careful and civil response. It should not be necessary to point out that vilifying the author will not answer her arguments. The Heartland Institute, is distributing 150,000 copies of this to elected officials, educators, journalists, civic and business leaders, and other 'influential' people.
http://joannenova.com.au/globalwarming/skeptics_handbook_2-1.pdf (550KB)
The above is part of:
http://joannenova.com.au/global-warming/
A few hours after posting this, Pyotr Patrushev suggested this fascinating video presentation by Dr. Ian Plimer: http://tinyurl.com/ccakd8
]]>A fascinating and still important book about government relations with business, focusing on the history of anti-trust legislation, administrative, and judicial practices. If we seek to build a world fit for explorers we must understand the path that has led us astray.
In Chapter 2, "Everybody out of step but government lawyers," Fleming writes:
It is hard to believe that all this industrial power, available both for peace and for war, has been built on error and by criminals. When a young man shows great power in athletics or an old man holds together toward the century mark, people think there must have been something good in the makings of such a man. Not so, however, with American industry in the eyes of the federal courts and the government lawyers. It is full of original sin and needs to be taken apart and put together properly.
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The trouble isn't simply that almost every businessman in the United States could now, by the new rules, be haled into court by government officials and be fined, branded a criminal for the most commonplace and accepted practices, and subjected to treble-damage suits by competitors and customers. It is that the policies and practices by which American business has grown so phenomenally productive have one and all in recent years been damned, discouraged, and suppressed.
The book is available online, without charge, at http://mises.org/books/fleming.pdf
]]>A thought provoked by reading John Robb, at:
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com
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Was ist Äufklarung?
]]>Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! "Have courage to use your own reason!" — that is the motto of enlightenment.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HCR0006.html
A simple explanation of the meaning of the above 18th century language:
]]>For an introduction to this tool, and some examples of its use, especially by the State of Maine in Education, see http://noteshare.net/NoteShare/Notebooks/AquaMindsinEducation/
The best introduction I've found so far is this video at iTunes U.
http://tinyurl.com/bzo7h7
This will cause iTunes to open to "Mac Learning Environments"
Look for "NoteShare_and_NoteShare Server_05_28_08".
It is probably in line 16.