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  • The Gulf Oil Disaster: Where Were the Engineers?

    The Challenger Disaster was caused by an engineering ethics failure. Where were the engineers when the key decisions were made that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster? Read more

  • Doubling Time: Interest and Population Growth.

    Doubling time is a way to look at growth rates. It works for interest growth, credit card debt, and population growth. It points out that our current growth rate is unsustainable and we must take steps to insure our descendants are able to live on the Earth. Read more

  • Climate Change and the Greenhouse Effect

    Most gardeners know how greenhouses work.  In the daytime, the sun’s radiation (visible and UV) comes in through the glass and warms the plants and soil.  The glass stops the heat radiation ( infrared ) from passing back through and the greenhouse stays warm enough to keep the plants from freezing, even at night. The Earth… Read more

  • Aristotle's Lessons from the Past

    “Aristotle gave us a universe whose laws are invariant and capable of being discovered by observation and reason.”  In ancient times, nature had been explained as the actions of the gods. The early Greek philosophers questioned the role of the gods as the cause of events and by the fifth century B.C. the Greek philosophers, such as… Read more