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...hide their enthusiasm for these sweet discoveries. Beranbaum even asserts that the new sugars can help simplify the art of baking because they add spectacular flavor without requiring complex skills. "For me," marvels Beranbaum, "finding these sugars is like being an astronomer who has discovered a new planet or a mathematician who has solved a new theorem." It's that sweet...
...Peak Oil" theory fits nicely on a cocktail napkin. Its curve looks like this: Colonel Edwin Drake starts pumping crude in Pennsylvania in 1859. We've been pumping faster and faster ever since. Sooner or later, on this finite planet of ours, it just has to run out. U.S. production peaked in the 1970s. Global production will soon be on the downside of the same dismal curve...
...price of oil has always fluctuated. In inflation-adjusted dollars, it was higher in the early '80s than it is today. Extraction technologies continue to improve much faster than supply horizons recede. We've got the right know-how and the right planet. What we lack is the political will...
...progress: the Pacific that John Keats' stout Cortez (actually, it was fat Balboa) beheld has become the Pacific Rim, and out over the horizon the Sandwich Islands have turned into an American state, Hawaii, where men may marry each other now. American fast food will gobble up China. The planet contracts to the size of a grape...
...revolution possible is beyond even Gutenberg's wildest dreams. But who will be evangelized? And who will do the evangelizing? The creation and maintenance of a Website, as compared with a radio or television broadcast, is neither difficult nor expensive. But only the richest of the people on the planet own the necessary equipment to visit such exclusive religious sites as those of the brothers of Christ in the Desert or the Vatican. The rich are at the top of the information mountain; the poor receive the leavings. While mainline denominations and lesser-known religions get equal time in cyberspace...