From Haight to Hate, a San Francisco Silicon Trip

by Larry Shultz | Feb 18, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Cities, Democracy, Human and Civil rights, US West

Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisc o (lrb.co.uk) I used to be proud of being from the San Francisco Bay Area. I thought of this place in terms of liberation and protection; we were where the environmental movement was born; we were...

Panics and Manias and Veblen Goods, Oh My

by Larry Shultz | Feb 10, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Cities, Climate, Democracy, Emergent Properties, Public Health, Public Policy, Retirement

America’s Most Expensive Home for Sale Hits the Market for $295 Million – WSJ Donahue invented mutual funds. Each grandchild gets a cool $1 million at 18 or 21. I have been by there numerous times on a boat and just walking to the south end of the sparkling...

The Slow Sinking of HMS Beagle

by Larry Shultz | Jan 28, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Biology, Cities, Climate, Democracy, Education, Evolution, Neuroeconomics, Pseudoscience, Science, US West

Motivated science skeptics will say, because it is sporadically colder than normal, and it still occasionally snows in some areas, that by definition there is a massive climate change hoax It is elicited and spread by the conspiracy of a durable rabble of sinners,...

Sodium Batteries and Grid Storage

by Larry Shultz | Jan 20, 2024 | Biophysical Economics, Cities, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Energy

Sodium Batteries | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse (energyskeptic.com)

EMP and Power Grids, a Vital National Security Need

by Larry Shultz | Jan 20, 2024 | Cities, Democracy, Energy, Public Health

Protecting America’s Power Grids From EMP Attacks (forbes.com) If someone could alert the US Government that spending on grid hardening/cyber-attacks could possibly save more than 100,000,0000 lives for relatively short money. A wise investment in my view. LS Initial...

Major Changes or a Bleak Future for Homo sapiens

by Larry Shultz | Jan 20, 2024 | Biology, Biophysical Economics, Cities, Climate, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Energy, Evolution, Public Health, Scale, Science

Mental Health. Coping with the future: notes from Jackson & Jensen’s “An Inconvenient Apocalypse” | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse (energyskeptic.com)