Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Cary Fowler's Vanity Project and the Greatest Scam Since the Dawn of Agriculture
Sure, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is out to conserve our agricultural diversity, but who exactly is that diversity being saved for? [part 3/3]
Sep 26, 2017 • 55 min read • comments
Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Cary Fowler's Vanity Project and the Greatest Scam Since the Dawn of Agriculture
Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Seed Saving-Cum-Taxidermy
With Svalbard designed for depositing seeds (not withdrawals), and with surreptitious & slimy arguments defending it, what might be its ulterior motive be? [part 2/3]
Jul 26, 2017 • 9 min read • comments
Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Seed Saving-Cum-Taxidermy
Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Not the “Doomsday Seed Vault” But Rather the “Vault of Doom”
The Vault is “supposed to last for eternity”, yet didn't take the effects of climate change into consideration. What about the “unknown unknowns”? [part 1/3]
Jul 21, 2017 • 7 min read • comments
Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Not the “Doomsday Seed Vault” But Rather the “Vault of Doom”
Move Over Perpetual Motion Machines, There's Now a Perpetual Data Machine – Big Data!
The economist's economists at The Economist have apparently found a replacement for oil, and it isn't even a form of energy
May 26, 2017 • 6 min read • comments
Move Over Perpetual Motion Machines, There's Now a Perpetual Data Machine – Big Data!
Book Review | When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation
Are renewable energies enough to maintain the trucking industry in order to maintain the... renewable energy industry? Hmm...
Apr 30, 2017 • 9 min read • comments
Book Review | When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation
Money Doesn't Grow on Trees, Industrial-Scale Renewable Energy Does
The amount of hype, wishful thinking, and arguably outright lies that the renewable energy industries deal out ultimately does renewables more harm than good
Apr 19, 2017 • 8 min read • comments
Money Doesn't Grow on Trees, Industrial-Scale Renewable Energy Does
Fanfare Ciocărlia | A Retrospective
A quasi-review and sample songs from all eleven Fanfare Ciocărlia albums [part 6/6]
Mar 31, 2017 • 14 min read • comments
Fanfare Ciocărlia | A Retrospective
From the Gutter of The Lounge Lizards' Confidence Schmuzic to Fanfare Ciocărlia and the Peak of Music
With an array of musical styles, 2000+ concerts given, and incessant criss-crossing of the globe, Fanfare Ciocărlia may very well qualify as the peak of music [part 5/6]
Mar 27, 2017 • 13 min read • comments
From the Gutter of The Lounge Lizards' Confidence Schmuzic to Fanfare Ciocărlia and the Peak of Music
Bands of Gypsies, Assisting Us in Achieving Harmony in the Face of Collapse
By being seeds of music, can bands of Gypsies help bring harmony and light to the world, particularly in what appears to be the coming years of darkness? [part 4/6]
Mar 21, 2017 • 13 min read • comments
Bands of Gypsies, Assisting Us in Achieving Harmony in the Face of Collapse
Onwards to Mars, or Onwards to the (Ten) Fields?
No, we're not going to Mars, but perhaps the (wedding) music of Fanfare Ciocărlia can help us make our way back to a marriage with the fields [part 3/6]
Mar 15, 2017 • 12 min read • comments
Onwards to Mars, or Onwards to the (Ten) Fields?

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