03.20.2009

Game-Changing Cover

Posted in Alex Webster and the Gods at 3:36 am by Administrator

Check out the Businessweek Cover for its March 19, 2009 issue.

m1-front-cover-alex-webster-web-pageCover of BusinessWeekReminds me of a great book cover.

Maybe it’s based on a game-changing idea.

Maybe it’s time for J.J. Jones as CEO of the year.

03.16.2009

Not Like the Great Depression…but rather

Posted in Economic Crisis at 3:39 am by Administrator

Economist philosopher John Gray suggests that the present crisis of capitalism is not like the Great Depression, but rather more like the collapse of communism.  Dave here - it is an interesting comparison.  Just as the Soviet empire collapsed under the weight of an unsuccessful war in Afghanistan, the American empire collapses under the weight of its own military misadventure in Iraq.  And just  to ensure the death knell of an insolvent empire , Obama chooses to enlarge the American presence in  Afghanistan.
John Gray Guardian Interview

 

Back to John Gray on the crisis, from the attached Guardian clip. It is not possible to get the show back on the road. We are at the end of debt-based financial capitalism. There is no obvious replacement paradigm , thus we are in for an extended period of uncertainty. Read the rest of this entry »

02.16.2009

The Gods are Restless…

Posted in Uncategorized at 9:59 pm by Administrator

07.20.2007

Cosmology: A Special Time to See It’s a Special Time

Posted in Uncategorized at 7:57 pm by Administrator

The Return of a Static universe and the End of Cosmology, a paper just published online in the Journal of Relativity and Gravitation, argues that in 100 billion years, everything else we can see will have been pushed so far away by the universe’s expansion that all other sources of light will have been redshifted beyond our ability to detect them. All evidence of the big bang will have disappeared and all matter other than that in our galaxy will be invisible. Indeed, our view of the universe will look suspiciously like it did in the pre-Hubble days.

The authors go on to ponder what this means in terms of the anthropic principle: the idea that we exist in a universe that’s got conditions favorable to life largely because anything else would preclude any life arising that could ponder the universe. They suggest that there’s another layer of complexity on top of that, namely that we only recognize that there is an anthropic principle observationally verify that we live in a very special time in the evolution of the universe!”

http://arstechnica.com/


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