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Stop Making So Much Racquet

By Donal on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 2:24pm | Sports

The New York Times has an article, Rackets Provide Window Into Tennis’s Top Three Men, discussing the tennis racquets used by Nadal, Djokovic and Federer. I haven't paid much attention to racquets since 2001, but I used to obsess over them.

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DeGrowth

By Donal on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 10:33am | World Affairs

I found this rather long vimeo, Redefining Progress (25:10), on Adbusters.

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Brick and Mortar

By Donal on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:04pm | Technology

In architecture school in the 1970s we learned a fair amount about passive solar design. We learned about orienting a building to take advantage of solar angles, about trombe walls, overhangs and brise-soleils. Although, back then, a lot of passive solar designs tended to look alike, it certainly seemed to us that in the midst of an energy crisis, we'd be doing energy-efficient buildings in our careers. 

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Gaia vs Humans

By Donal on Sun, 06/19/2011 - 7:14pm |

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Doom, Doom and More Doom

By Donal on Fri, 06/17/2011 - 3:59pm | Technology

New Society has published three new books telling us that we're doomed. Or are they? When you see that humanity is running up against a problem, and you write a book about it, are you actually a doomer?

Take Thomas Malthus, whose name has become synonymous with population overshoot. His contemporary, the Marquis de Condorcet, had written Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind, which described a world getting better, for example:

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