The Hyper-Vigilante
Well intentioned as they may be, trigger warnings nevertheless confuse victim with expert, and expert with advocate.
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The Atomic Frenchman
The surprising positivist connection between Serge Gainsbourg and the Manhattan Project.
The Language Of Lincoln
The power of President Lincoln's most famous speech resides in its simplicity.
Mind The Gap
Translation, or the attempt to make another language part of our own, is as complicated as what can never be translated.
The Power Of Energy
Knowing the difference between energy's ability to work, and the rate at which it's created and consumed, is crucial to balancing consumers' power needs.
Congo vs. Bonobo
In terms of untapped mineral reserves, The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is arguably the richest country in the world, with its estimated $24 trillion worth of natural resources. The DRC is a country of superlatives, with vast reserves of coltan, gold, cassiterite, and tin mined in eastern Congo,…
Electricity’s Future, Part III: Microgrid
"Microgrids" promise a world in which homeowners store excess energy from the day, using it later at night, without buying electricity from a utility.
Causes At War
"It may be important for historians to shift more attention to eastern Europe and to increase the Russian share of the collective responsibility for the war, but one cannot allow this to outweigh Germany’s primary guilt for converting a Balkan War into a “world war” rather than a regional war. McMeekin still disagrees: “Important as the German violation of Belgium was, it did not cause the First World War.” (The House of Commons would have been fascinated to learn this.)"
Notes From Underground
Seven becomes the (un)lucky number of underground explorations.
Shrinking Generation
As the energy landscape shifts from larger to smaller networks of production, so do the definitions of power producers and consumers.