Monthly Archives: August, 2018

The Elephant in the Brain 2018-08-16
The Reivers 2018-08-14
Kudos 2018-08-06
Circe 2018-08-01

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Oxygenic Photosynthesis
In the beginning, there was anoxygenic photosynthesis. OK, not in the beginning beginning, but at least before oxygenic photosynthesis…
Revolutions break bottlenecks
Part of a series on revolutions. On this page we define bottlenecks and think about some revolutions that break them. Definition What is a…
The Fertile Crescent
Part of a series on revolutions. Here I assert that abundance is a condition for step changes in complexity using the example of the Fertile…
Revolutions occur in conditions of abundance
Part of a series on revolutions. What constitutes abundance? More influx than efflux is one way of seeing it. Of what? is a good question…
Characteristics of Revolutions
Part of a series on revolutions. On this page I’ll keep a list of observations I’ve made about revolutions, as defined here. This represents…
Revolutions, Step Changes, Paradigm Shifts
Part of a series on revolutions. You say you want a revolution? Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it’s…
Revolutionary Disclaimer
This is a disclaimer which applies to the series I’m doing on revolutions. First, I’d like to reserve the right to be wrong in the writing…
On Revolutions
Today I want to begin a discussion of the big, exciting events in history writ large — by which I mean nothing less than the sum total of…
The Jakarta Method
I recently finished The Jakarta Method, a new book about the dynamics of the Cold War by Vincent Bevins. Its subtitle, Washington’s…
Cultivation of the Soul
Part of a series on culture. In 45 BC, when Cicero was 61, his daughter Tullia died shortly after she gave birth. “I have lost the one…

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