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World climate is changing
Earth’s climate has been changing for many decades. Now, the world is threatened by three effects of the change. By the time today’s children have become the adults in authority, they will face a world unbelievably different from ours, today. … Continue reading
Flint water crisis cries racism
‘Flint’, an artist’s summary of the Flint water crisis, has visceral impact on the viewer. This image won an award. Flint Michigan is an old automotive manufacturing town in Michigan, about 45 miles north of my town, Ann Arbor. The … Continue reading
Gun rights vs hard data
Right winger David Brooks published an op ed column in the 2017 Oct 7 New York Times (print edition) on gun control. His comments have a vital point, and they should be required reading. If you quote hard data that … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Dark Money, David Brooks, Democracy in Chains, gun control, Tali Sharot, White Trash
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Shifts and jumps in chaotic systems – USA
We had a chaotic change in our politics. What does that mean? The United States appears to be experiencing an historic shift in its social order. No need for a bullet list of changes, the election of Donald Trump is … Continue reading
ITER-1 – The international fusion test facility
ITER will begin fusion tests within a decade. We discuss this huge machine. The long awaited fusion test bed, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, is under construction in Cadarache, France. ITER is an hour (70 km) North of Marseilles (South-Eastern … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Fusion Reactor, Fusion Timeline, Ignition, ITER, Tokamak Divertor
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If I explain, they will accept. Uh, umm
Today’s SkepticalScience.com has a link to one of Katharine Hayhoe’s latest videos. Facts don’t convince. This video (Fig 1) is a very solid description on why you cannot come up to someone, just explain the technical facts about something, then … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Resources
Tagged global warming, Global Weirding, Katharine Hayhoe, Skeptical Science
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Climate shift denialists 2 – Religious
Trump and his religious followers deny climate change. Why? On June 1 (2017), Pres. Trump pulled the U.S. out of the international Paris Agreement On Climate Change. This is a major action that will haunt our grandchildren’s grandchildren. It also … Continue reading
Climate shift denialists 1 – Business and politics
Trump and other denialists reject climate change. Why? On June 1, Pres. Trump pulled the U.S. out of the international Paris Agreement On Climate Change and pushed climate change into one of the major stories of the year. This has … Continue reading
Donald Trump is Man-child – Maybe
Is Donald Trump a child in a man’s body? … or something more disturbing. This question has been discussed a lot. How would you interpret all the public aspects of Donald Trump (fig 1)? Trump is a Man-Child In recent … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Pres Trump
Tagged Alison Gopnik, David Brooks, Donald Trump, Man Child, Michael A Cohen
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President Trump, Triumph of Chaos
Against all reasonable odds, Donald Trump rose from a discounted Republican candidate to take the President’s oath of office. “How did this happen?” How is because Trump is the product of self-focused personal ambition and pushed himself forward at exactly the right time. The real … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Pres Trump
Tagged Amanda Taub, chaos shift, chaotic orbits, Charles Kock, David Koch, Donald Trump, Jonathan Rauch, Roberto Foa, slow war, Yascha Mounk
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Trump invites Brit Theresa May over for tea
Breaking new just from Politico, “President-elect Trump invites British prime minister for a visit”. Ms May is an attractive woman. Think about what The Donald said … about the most important quality for a woman to have is her “good … Continue reading
Quench the Bern? … yet the fires rage
Bernie Sanders has been quenched, but populist passions still burn – in both parties. By June 2016, Bernie Sanders appeared to have lost in his push for the Democratic nomination, and in early July, he formally backed the heir apparent, … Continue reading
Piketty on the U.S. Presidential race
Piketty makes upbeat comments on Bernie Sanders and what he implies about US inequality trends. Just to pass on a very optimistic comment from Thomas Piketty, on our on-going struggle against the American convergence to a government controlled by an … Continue reading
Of Time and Physics
Physics and Timepath are compatible views – the past is real; the future – messy probability; the Now separates them. Well-trained, reputable physicists have published claims that the past is fixed, the future is just like the past but stretches … Continue reading
We have moved!
The site you have reached is LastTechAge.wordpress.com This location is now dormant but will stay open for the foreseeable near future. For current posts and comments, please go to what will appear as an identical site http://LastTechAge.com/ … ALL our … Continue reading
Obama Decides On Keystone XL
Obama announced at 11:00 Nov 6 in 2015 that the contentious Keystone XL program has been rejected. This is written minutes after President Obama publicly announced his administration’s rejection of the Keystone upgrade project. LastTechAge has been following this since … Continue reading
Time Path – Probability Begins It
The probables in the Potential Future use Bayesian hooks into the events of Now to continuously form Reality We continue discussing the Time Path, with a closer look at what must be happening when potential events become real events. We … Continue reading
Time Path – Exploring the past
How can we know that this Which caused that What? It depends on how we use the timepath. We continue where we stopped our discussion in Time Path – The Flow of Time. and discuss how we identify what happened … Continue reading
Time path – the flow of time
What are the Past and Future? What is Now? The time path is interesting Our experience of time is focused around what we describe as Now. Before Now, there is no time containing any realized structure, just interconnected potential actions … Continue reading
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Tagged becoming Now, being and becoming, being Past, Ontology of time, picture of time, potential Future, Time, time line, time path
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