Saturday, September 24, 2022

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Britain ships and trees

 

Robert G. Albion’s doctoral dissertation, Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy, 1652–1862

1990 book Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape: The Complete History of Britain’s Trees, Woods and Hedgerows, Oliver Rackham 

Patrick Melby wrote in a 2012 Western Oregon University paper, Insatiable Shipyards: The Impact of the Royal Navy on the World’s Forests, 1200-1850.

Insatiable Shipyards 

Saturday, September 10, 2022

Complexity

What I learnt from Complexity

 Complexity by Mitchel Waldrop

Pieces of the action by Vannevar Bush

proteins from petroleum pipeline

How does this hold now?

"Wecan even produce proteins from organisms that grow well on petroleum, and the remarkable point about this is that we could thus makeprotein enough for all the world and use in the process only 5 per cent of the petroleum we now use for heat and power. "

Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Lewis Allen 

complexity map

Complex Adaptive Systems

What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial

Objectivity, Value Judgement and theory choice by Thomas Kuhn.

Writing contests for kids

 POETRY CONTEST - Aug 11, 2022

Intergenerational sense of wonder