Author: Jock Gill
Clearly all cultures have what might be called their DNA. This cultural DNA appears to determine the nature of a culture and the boundaries within which it can “thrive”. Given that cultures, like organisms, live in an ever changing “context”, it is no surprise that the DNA of a culture is […]

Author: Jock Gill
As we consider our choices for a better tomorrow, at least a livable tomorrow, it is clear that one requirement is that we take a fresh look at how we use our resources. Are we making the best possible use of them such that they can best serve the greatest number of […]

Author: DR FAROOQ HASSAN
The general is plainly wrong when he maintains consistently that there is democracy in Pakistan! In his conception of democracy there is the consolidation of offices of the army chief and the presidency. Even more bizarre is the realisation that in any living democratic country these two offices are really powerless to […]

Author: Jock Gill

The picture above, thanks to David M. Harrison, Dept. of Physics. Univ. of Toronto, is one way to look at the concept of punctuated equilibrium or the bifurcation process that is part of Chaos.
I once wrote a simple BASIC program that creates this image of a system bifurcating and then moving into chaos. […]

Thanks to Peter Coyote:
A must read on our current economics
“It is through the newspapers and TV channels that the
socially destructive notions of a small group of
extremists have come to look like common sense.”
The Guardian UK
By George Monbiot
Tuesday 28 August 2007
A cabal of intellectuals and elitists hijacked the
economic debate, and […]

The promoters of poisonous black seeds from jatropha [and here and here] “weed” have, so far, yet to imagine, see, the cooking fuel before their very eyes: double pressed oil seed cake [the residual fibers after the oil has been extracted]. When run through the oil press a second or third time, the […]

Introduction
Economic development in LDCs [Least Developed Countries] is very hard and, historically, prone to failure.  It rarely fits neatly into corporate time frames, earnings requirements or agendas.  Nor does it fit neatly into either political time tables or within shifting political agendas in “donor nations”. To date, nobody has figured out how to do it […]

But Only
“In the Box Solutions”
are offered up by our would be presidents and their parties.
A few of our Out of the Box Problems:
Global Climate Change
Peak Oil
Bird Flu
Global Credit Crisis
Backwards Communications Infrastructure.
An electrical system that wastes at least 70% of the energy it uses
Smoldering National Urban Crisis
A corrupt, profit driven election process
The attack on […]

My friend Peter Jones sent along a pointer to the work at Princeton on “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies.” See also the Carbon Mitigation Initiative site.
I think this is an interesting idea, but it is badly flawed for several reasons.
1] Nuclear power is a very bad […]

Reported by Pakistan Family Forum

ISLAMABAD, June 28: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to a ‘same-sex’ couple and suspended a verdict handed down by the Lahore High Court. The high court had declared the marriage un-Islamic and sentenced the two to three years in jail.
Accepting their appeal, a bench of the Supreme Court comprising […]