Check out this entry in the Writer’s Almanac: It’s the day Confucius‘ birthday is celebrated in Taiwan. The holiday is called Teacher’s Day.
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Renewable Energy: Deal of the Century, Perhaps the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
86 years ago today the first loaf of sliced bread was sold. Yet, according to the Writer’s Almanac, even this marvel, which famously took the world by storm, had a rough start in terms of consumer acceptance. Perhaps we’re seeing …
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Levelized Cost of Energy from Renewables Is Coming Very Close To That of Fossil Fuels
According to the Writer’s Almanac, it is the birthday of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter (pictured), best known for his research on the nucleus of the atom. While he was studying at City College of New York, Hofstadter wanted to …
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Francis Bacon, Scientific Method, and the Future of Humankind
Many people speculate on the future of humankind. Will we develop technology in time to avert the disasters we’re causing to our environment? Do we possess the decency and sanity necessary to channel all this technology in a productive direction, …
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Crossing the Rubicon Into a New Age of Clean Energy
According to the Writer’s Almanac, it’s the anniversary of the date on which Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River from Gaul back into the Roman Republic, starting a civil war; this whole event and the context in which it occurred …
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The U.S. Declaration of Independence
According to the Writer’s Almanac, today is the anniversary of the official signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. They write: “It was introduced as a resolution by Richard Henry Lee, a delegate from Virginia on June 7, 1776 — …
Happy Birthday, Aldous Huxley – and a Note on Sustainability
Aldous Huxley would be 119 years old today. I read his Brave New World in a course I had in college called “Social Ideals and Ideal Societies,” which I took for a very noble reason: a pretty girl I liked …
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Clean Energy Technologies Could Come from Unexpected Places
According to the Writer’s Almanac on Monday: It was on this day in 1754 that the word “serendipity” was first coined. It’s defined by Merriam-Webster as “the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.” …. The …
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Happy Birthday and Thanks to Albert Schweitzer
According to the Writer’s Almanac, today is the birthday of humanitarian, philosopher and physician, Albert Schweitzer. Those unfamiliar with his extraordinary life should take a couple of minutes, visit the pages linked above, and have one of those experiences that fills one with …
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Celebrating Isaac Newton's Birthday
In this age of ours, where we’re all rightfully fascinated with the paradigm shifts that are occurring far more frequently than they did in antiquity, perhaps it’s not a bad time to celebrate the birthday (yesterday) of Isaac Newton. According …
