Open question to whitehouse.gov
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Politics, Statistics, TV News Media | 3 Comments »How will the Obama team measure performance against the critical issues that are now on unsustainable exponential curves? Why do politicians & journalist try to verbally explain chart data ... instead of just using a chart? If pictures are worth a thousand words ... Then why aren't ...
Mother Nature will push the reset button
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Limits of Growth, media | No Comments »For over 100 years Homo sapien has been on an unsustainable exponential curve in almost every area of endeavor. The plan so far has been, wait for the bubble to burst, or wait for a crisis to occur, before trying to fix ...
Happy Birthday Molly Age 6
Saturday, March 21st, 2009 Posted in family | 3 Comments »Happy Birthday Molly! Did I tell you the story that when I was young I thought about playing the piano ... but we were too poor to buy a piano and pay for lessons. When I started work after high ...
Our Nested Universe Updated Blog
Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in cosmology, science | No Comments »Posted October 20, 2007 in cosmology & science. My grandchildren and I are looking for critical comments on our Nested Universe concept. To review, go to the October 20th 2007 updated archive. Highlights of our universe in a black hole: The gravitational pull of the black ...
Happy 15th Birthday Sam
Sunday, March 15th, 2009 Posted in family | 1 Comment »It's great that you made the High School baseball team and we plan to see you play on your birthday. All the practices and games you have played have paid off for you. I was just as enthusiastic about baseball when ...
We’re drowning in verbal data [part III]
Saturday, March 14th, 2009 Posted in Curmudgeon, Statistics, TV News Media | 7 Comments »Why would we want to have a TV station devoted to long term projections on crucial issues on a daily basis? Isn't there enough boring stuff on TV already? Isn't our present method of "wait for a crisis to occur ...
We’re drowning in verbal data [part II]
Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Curmudgeon, Statistics, TV News Media | 2 Comments »Yesterday (3-12-09) Jon Stewart exposed Jim Cramer as a business journalist "snake oil salesman". Tonight (3-13-09) The PBS News Hour discussed the Stewart/Cramer episode and asked a panel of business writers and analysts to watch a clip from the show. ...
We’re drowning in verbal data [part I]
Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Curmudgeon, Statistics, media | No Comments »Lawyers, (most of our politicians), and Journalist, (media people) are by-in-large verbal people. They don't seem to consider the possibility that several hundred words can be turned into a picture, chart or graph. Word information is growing exponentially. We're drowning ...
Happy Birthday & Memory Day Emma!
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in Brain, consciosness, family | 1 Comment »This is a special day Emma. It's your 5th birthday! And you will be the first child to celebrate "Memory Day". When a child reaches the age of five grandpa thinks there should be a special day called "Memory Day." I will ...
Free Will & Human Agency
Sunday, March 1st, 2009 Posted in consciosness, free will, science | 10 Comments »Grandpa has been sending you grand-kids blogs on various subjects for the past 2.5 years. Does grandpa know what he is talking about? For the next year I'll be testing the subject matter by seeing what others have to say. I ...