Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Another excerpt from the Coastal Engineering Manual, this time concerning coastal development and construction in the Greco-Roman world and before that. It should be of interest to ancient history aficionados and engineers alike. I-3-1. Ancient World The history of coastal engineering reaches back to the ancient world bordering the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and …
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Akio Toyoda's testimony concerning the woes Toyota is having regarding its spontaneous acceleration makes me think of an incident in my own family business many years ago, as related by the field service man who experienced it. In the 1960's, we imported a Japanese vibratory hammer called the Uraga. It's purpose was to drive piles …
While beating around the net, I came across this bizarre 2008 piece in the Daily Kos: The attendance at the Lifebuilders Conference is notable as a very damning link to neopentecostal dominionism; Lifebuilders is a yearly "Lay Missionary" conference of the Church of God of Cleveland, TN, a neopentecostal dominionist group which can be considered …
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Some people are only now figuring this out: Internal Toyota documents derided the Obama administration and Democratic Congress as “activist” and “not industry friendly," a revelation that comes days before the giant automaker's top executives testify on Capitol Hill amid a giant recall. According to a presentation obtained under subpoena by the House Oversight and …
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While looking for something completely unrelated, I ran across this September 2007 post which bears repeating: "Spengler’s" piece about Western grasshoppers and Chinese ants points out one of the sad facts of U.S. economic policy: its willingness to endure long-term trade deficits without allowing those who accumulate the dollars to invest them in U.S. equities. …
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This speaks for itself: http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnplayer/cbnPlayer.swf?s=/vod/RWR1v2 Hermilo Jasso's website is here.
They're at it again in South Carolina: South Carolina Rep. Mike Pitts has introduced legislation that would mandate that gold and silver coins replace federal currency as legal tender in his state. As the Palmetto Scoop first reported, Pitts, a Republican, introduced legislation this month banning "the unconstitutional substitution of Federal Reserve Notes for silver …
Former State Senator David Fowler of the Family Action Council of Tennessee reports this: At the end of last month, the Muslim Students Association at Vanderbilt University hosted an event sponsored by the university’s Project Dialogue committee. The topic was “Common Ground: Being Muslim in the Military.” One of the panelists, Awadh A. Binhazim, is …
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This 2005 piece, from David "Spengler" Goldman, is as succinct of an explanation of the importance of blood in spiritual life as I've seen: All religion is about life, that is, about life eternal. Humankind cannot bear mortality without the hope of immortality, and for this men will sacrifice their physical existence without hesitation. That …
Walter Russell Mead hits the problem squarely on the head: Back before the global warming mess blew up, I wrote a post about the breakup of the ‘blue social model‘. Not to regurgitate the whole post, but the mid-twentieth century saw the US (like most advanced countries at the time) develop an economic and political …
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