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Best Practices for Geopolitical Travelers
Posted on November 22, 2010 | 4 CommentsGeorge Friedman offers up a different and personal collection of observations from his trip through Eastern Europe.
The Changing Maps of a Pale Blue Dot
Posted on November 18, 2010 | No CommentsWatch the ebb and flow of cultures and nations - civilization's great story - unfold thanks to YouTube. Also: Appreciate these moments.
It’s Complicated
Posted on November 11, 2010 | No CommentsHappy Veteran's Day. I a patriot, enamored of my particular view of things, who knows that I'm dead wrong. Let's hear it for massive confusion.
Barbaric and Brilliant
Posted on November 10, 2010 | No CommentsLearn how an 1,800 year old Roman multitool got me thinking about American culture, the computer, and a very binary/reductionist view of the world.
History’s Corkscrew
Posted on October 12, 2010 | No CommentsAre Mad Men's characters properly grounded in their time? Is social change akin to a corkscrew? And what's the deal with free will? How much do we have?
Morality of the Future
Posted on October 7, 2010 | 7 CommentsWhat are we all doing today that will be looked upon with disdain by our descendants? Kwame Appiah identifies some clues and identifies four practices, then I add three additional contenders.
Social Issues & Geopolitics in Sci-Fi
Posted on September 30, 2010 | No CommentsA look at how geek parents can use science fiction to educate our kids about social issues and even geopolitics. While a horrible place to end, it's a great place to start.
Political/Cultural Borders and Borderlands
Posted on August 10, 2010 | No CommentsA remedial education about the concepts of political borders, cultural borders, and borderlands.
Photographic Time Machine
Posted on August 2, 2010 | No CommentsSergey Larenkov has photoshopped the past into the present. The results are spectacular.
Unprepared for Change
Posted on July 29, 2010 | No CommentsOur tendency is to freeze our perceptions in place. As a result, change happens and we're totally unprepared for it.