Ghulf Genes

Fernand Braudel (see last post) wrote Civilization and Capitalism , 15th-18th Century. It's a three-volume work ( The Structures of Ever...

Legend has it that Henry Ford succeeded because he made cars cheap enough so that his workers could afford them. He lifted his product from ...

Adam Smith’s Hidden Hand, Darwin’s Natural Selection, and today’s Public Opinion are instances of forces ancient people called gods or demig...

In anticipation of tomorrow’s anniversary, here a few reflections on that interesting concept in biology, natural selection. It is quite cle...

I have memories of times that form the Future memories of Max, but he'll Remember scenes I can't recall. And vice versa. But we were...

To represent anything at all in language, we need only the two symbols of binary math, the Zero and the One. In this language zero is proper...

O Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. Our age is fond of demystifying our traditions. It’s a movement, in part...

In my childhood a three-fold structure dominated history. It divided into ancient, medieval, and modern. Prehistory formed a shadowy fourth ...