I was just telling my daughter’s best friend (pictured here facing my camera, perhaps seven years ago) about Linus Pauling, how remarkable he was, and what we can all learn from his incredible life. One important lesson is that we …
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Social Media Promotes Good Causes, Though Commonly Backfires on Bad Actors
Here’s a video that reminds me of a few key points in the use of social media and the quest to make a certain piece of content go viral. First, it needs to be so appealing that it achieves “critical …
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Hydrokinetics and Wind Energy Technologies
I just got off the phone with a fellow trying to raise investment capital for these guys. I bring this up not to ridicule anyone, but to make a point about the energy industry. The main technology featured here is …
Planetary Wisdom and the Keystone XL Pipeline
Like everyone, I’ve always been impressed with the winners of the Nobel Prize. My favorite personal experience along these lines goes back to my younger days in which I chronicled the Nobel laureates in protein chemistry when I was a …
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Looking for Good Ideas in Renewable Energy — Advice from Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling is a personal hero of mine. The great chemists of the day (mid-20th Century) admired Pauling’s achievements in quantum physics, but ridiculed his experiments in organic chemistry. “What could a physicist know about our work!” they jeered. One …
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