January 24, 2004 -- One reaction to President Bush's plan for a permanent Moon base and a trip to Mars is "Great! It's about time NASA stops going around in circles in low Earth orbit and returns to real science and exploration." Unfortunately, there's not a snowball's chance in the sun that the same agency that currently is constructing a down-sized version of its originally planned space station, decades behind schedule, at ten times its original budget, a few hundred miles up in orbit, will be able to build a station several hundred thousand miles away on the Moon. If Americans are again to walk on the Moon and make their way to Mars, NASA will actually need to be downsized and the private sector allowed to lead the way to the next frontier.
April 18, 2009 -- Spring has sprung at last here in Montreal. Leaves are sprouting on the trees, birds are chirping outside my window, and young women are baring their legs prematurely. The arrival of spring also means that in a few days time, millions of people throughout the world will celebrate another Earth Day to express their worries about the state of the planet. Though global temperatures have stagnated and even fallen somewhat in recent years, concern about global warming is still high on environmentalists’ agendas. The frigid winter we just experienced, they say, is due to La Niña and solar cycles . Then again, the disconnect between continually rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and recent global cooling could also reflect our imperfect understanding of feedback mechanisms in the climate system. Uncertainties about the complex role of clouds, especially, translate into substantial uncertainties in scientists’ computer models. According to self-described heretics like physicist Freeman Dyson, those models “ do not begin to describe the real world that we live in .” And yet, despite all the missing pieces of the puzzle, we continue to worry.
In case you doubt whether YouTube videos and social media have an impact on spreading the message of individualism and freedom, all you have to do is ask Franklin Andrés Camargo Armas
Atlas Shrugged is more than a political thriller. It’s a love story. What is love? Is it selfish or selfless? (Featuring clips from Atlas Sh
We here offer 12 definitions and descriptions of capitalism. Two are from widely used encyclopedias, five are from leading anti-capitalists, and five are from leading pro-capitalists.
In this four-part video series we introduce viewers to Objectivism by illustrating four fundamental concepts -- Philosophy, Reason, Envy, and Love.
January 24, 2004 -- One reaction to President Bush's plan for a permanent Moon base and a trip to Mars is "Great! It's about time NASA stops going around in circles in low Earth orbit and returns to real science and exploration." Unfortunately, there's not a snowball's chance in the sun that the same agency that currently is constructing a down-sized version of its originally planned space station, decades behind schedule, at ten times its original budget, a few hundred miles up in orbit, will be able to build a station several hundred thousand miles away on the Moon. If Americans are again to walk on the Moon and make their way to Mars, NASA will actually need to be downsized and the private sector allowed to lead the way to the next frontier.
April 18, 2009 -- Spring has sprung at last here in Montreal. Leaves are sprouting on the trees, birds are chirping outside my window, and young women are baring their legs prematurely. The arrival of spring also means that in a few days time, millions of people throughout the world will celebrate another Earth Day to express their worries about the state of the planet. Though global temperatures have stagnated and even fallen somewhat in recent years, concern about global warming is still high on environmentalists’ agendas. The frigid winter we just experienced, they say, is due to La Niña and solar cycles . Then again, the disconnect between continually rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and recent global cooling could also reflect our imperfect understanding of feedback mechanisms in the climate system. Uncertainties about the complex role of clouds, especially, translate into substantial uncertainties in scientists’ computer models. According to self-described heretics like physicist Freeman Dyson, those models “ do not begin to describe the real world that we live in .” And yet, despite all the missing pieces of the puzzle, we continue to worry.
In case you doubt whether YouTube videos and social media have an impact on spreading the message of individualism and freedom, all you have to do is ask Franklin Andrés Camargo Armas
Atlas Shrugged is more than a political thriller. It’s a love story. What is love? Is it selfish or selfless? (Featuring clips from Atlas Sh
We here offer 12 definitions and descriptions of capitalism. Two are from widely used encyclopedias, five are from leading anti-capitalists, and five are from leading pro-capitalists.
In this four-part video series we introduce viewers to Objectivism by illustrating four fundamental concepts -- Philosophy, Reason, Envy, and Love.