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a poem from a few years ago
Final Refrains to My Descendants - Circa. 2054
Sing the dying
time of grandchildren unborn
through broken,…
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a poem from a few years ago - Demographics
Added by Mark Mulkerin on March 21, 2010 at 12:00am — No Comments
Old MacDonald
My family has actually started down this road having bought a struggling, small farm in Wisconsin. Even though our background isn't farming, we wanted to put our resources where our passions are and took the plunge - sort of. Since we live abroad, we have partnered with the previous owners to keep the farm going and get things on a solid financial footing.
While they get crops in the ground and create value-added farm products to sell in regional co-ops, I'm working on the business… Continue
While they get crops in the ground and create value-added farm products to sell in regional co-ops, I'm working on the business… Continue
Added by Mark Mulkerin on March 19, 2010 at 9:45am — No Comments
A stove by any other name
Picking my favorite renewable energy is like picking my favorite kid - of course, if we could power the world with their energy and propensity for climbing and other naughtiness, we'd be somewhat closer to an energy balance but ...
The contenders include the way cool nano antennas which capture infrared energy for power ... it just needs to be converted to a usable form. Fusion ... but not for twenty years, always twenty years. Passive solar design ... you mean sunlight in…
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Added by Mark Mulkerin on March 19, 2010 at 6:31am — 2 Comments
Plow the sky!
4%
Imagine living in a country that only produced 4% of its own food. A country like Singapore which is really a city on an island without much farmland left. Now imagine that over 50% of your food supply come from just one other country ...
I bet you are saying to yourselves that it is a unique case. Most countries have rural areas that can support a much higher proportion of their populations. A unique case ... not really. With a half of the…
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Added by Mark Mulkerin on March 19, 2010 at 5:50am — 1 Comment
Arguing with my computer ... again
2020 - I want to be a Luddite. Kurzweill was right. My computer does have the same computing capacity as a human brain now. Unfortunately, it has a very disagreeable personality - think, know it all with no attention span. It is constantly commenting on my writing or video messaging and since it still doesn't understand metaphors or sarcasm, it is constantly trying to correct me. It took me twenty minutes to send a reply to Evoke about Tokyo. I'm still trying to figure out what we can do to… Continue
Added by Mark Mulkerin on March 19, 2010 at 5:29am — 1 Comment
shadowing Jane McGonigal
Okay, it is a bit odd shadowing the creator of a game that instructed you to shadow someone ... but I wouldn't be giving it a spin if I hadn't watched Ms. McGonigal's (if she accepts the Facebook friend request, I will feel I can use her first name) TED Talk.
Personally, if you are looking to shadow someone, anybody from the TED conference will likely qualify as someone you can learn a lot from. So why Ms. McGonigal instead of any number of other incredible…
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Added by Mark Mulkerin on March 19, 2010 at 4:40am — 7 Comments
Make It Inexpensive
What is a school? What is a library? How do we educate our children and ourselves? In the developed world, the answer has been state supported public schools and colleges with more expensive private options for those who can afford filled with teachers, books, and lunch ladies. It is industrial education requiring the machinery of learning, the assembly lines of knowledge, and the raw materials to process. In less developed countries, this option is out of reach for many as even the seemingly… Continue
Added by Mark Mulkerin on March 19, 2010 at 4:16am — 1 Comment
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