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Ten Commandments For Airlines

Following my Ten Commandments for Tech Companies – which changed their behavior not one whit – I offer these shalt-nots for US airlines. ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Apr 19 2015 - 5:23pm

I've Been Named The New President Of The American Council On Science And Health

Science 2.0 family, it is with great pride that I announce I have been named the president of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH).  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 10 2015 - 4:39pm

Big Science: Ernest Lawrence Gets His Hagiography

When we think of science today, we think of Big Science, like the Large Hadron Collider and the Human Genome Project. That makes sense, Americans like big and bold, but that was not always the case. It used to be thatg science was a lonely occupation and a ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 6 2018 - 1:56pm

From Prohibition to Ferguson?

G.K.Chesterton (1874 – 1936) visited the United States twice, in 1921 and 1930.  I have recently been reading Sidelights on New London and Newer York and Other Essays, published in 1932 after his second visit. One of the essays has particularly struck my ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 2 2015 - 10:40am

My Talk At The Western Plant Health Association Meeting

Last week, the Western Plant Health Association, which represents California, Arizona and Hawaii companies involved in plant nutrients, soil amendments, agricultural minerals and crop protection products (basically, technologies such as fertilizer and pes ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 17 2019 - 1:57pm

A Ghostbusters Tour Of Manhattan

It's Halloween and I am in New York and I wanted to do something local. But since Sleepy Hollow does not have a way to get there by subway (I don't even know where I would rent a car in Manhattan, I suppose I could get there by bus, but even usi ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 31 2015 - 3:42pm

Thanksgiving Science 2015

In the mood for some science on Thanksgiving?  Me too, science is the one thing that has not been steamrolled by Christmas. Instead, Thanksgiving is arguably the most scientific holiday, because it involves agriculture, chemistry and physics. If you are wo ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 27 2015 - 12:44pm

Hiatus

The few of you who regularly follow this blog may be rightly wondering why I have not published new posts in the last two weeks. The reason is overload. I have a few deadlines on January 31 that I need to meet, and several other errands to attend in the me ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 18 2016 - 3:31pm

Can We Prove That a Large System is Self-Organizing?

In my 2014 article about large systems  I wrote that "what makes a system large is our inability to observe everything within the system".  Large systems theory has been one of my personal thought experiments for a long time because I have long w ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Feb 17 2016 - 12:16pm

Brexit, the EU Now Has its Puerto Rico.

Brexit, if it happens as we all fear will make the UK the Puerto Rico of Europe. No, not really... Puerto Rico has more rights as a commonwealth of the US than Britain will have in association with the EU. Puerto Rico can stay outside the union while peopl ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 24 2016 - 8:45pm