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I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend…

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...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which…
Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroadâ€”yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, thereâ€™s nothing new in it.…
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern…
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone.…
Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well…
Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine,…

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