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Haiku Holdings #2

N. Burr Furlong & Randall Furlong — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:20:01 UT

constitution, supreme court holdings, Roe vs Wade, abortion, Brown vs Schoolboard of Topeka, integration, Miranda vs Arizona, criminal rights.

A Green Reactor!!

N. Burr Furlong — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:15:02 UT

All nuclear reactors need not be thought of as A-Bombs about to explode. A top nuclear physicist has proposed a relatively inexpensive energy source using induced fission reactions of a relatively abundant thorium isotope to produce heat and electricity.

Tags: CERN, hazardous isotope incineration, heat transfer, high energy protons, low cost energy, molten lead, Rubbia, safe nuclear energy, subcritical fission, synchrotron, thorium

Plastic Words

N. Burr Furlong — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:10:01 UT

After I retired from teaching, I managed to keep in touch with many of my students through my "Docnet". Recently, I ran across this exchange which seems to have special relevence to today's politics and the world's problems. It was an email I sent out after reading a letter to the editor which appeared in the summer 2006 issue of UTNE. It tells a little about me and a lot about knee-jerk name calling.

Tags: capitalism, free market failure, global warming, greed., income disparity, infotainment, laissez faire, socialism, war in Iraq

Haiku Holdings

Randall Furlong & N. Burr Furlong — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:00:02 UT

Students of Constitutional Law are expected to be familiar with definitive Supreme Court Holdings and the areas of the law to which they apply. In Law school, Dr. Randall Furlong was an editor for the Georgetown Law Review and in order to help students keep them in memory, invented summaries of some of these landmark holdings expressed as Haiku, the classic Japanese 17 syllable poem (In a 5-7-5 arrangement). At a time when constitutional principles, especially in regard to the separation of church and state or our individual rights to privacy and to freedom from coercion, seem to have been challenged by executive and legislative practices, it is, perhaps, timely to remind ourselves of the history of some of these legal precedents.

Tags: balance of powers, constitutional law, holdings, landmark cases, legal precedents, Supreme Court

To Drill or not to Drill

N. Burr Furlong — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:10:02 UT

A political football has been made of offshore drilling. What's behind this frenzy and what can it be expected to accomplish? Excerpts from recent articles reveal facts about motives and misrepresentations involving big oil, the Bush administration and public disillusionment.

Tags: alternative energies, federal oil land, monopolies, oil drilling, profiteering, public expectation

Insights from an Early Green Spokesman

N. Burr Furlong — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:00:02 UT

E.F.Shumacker was an English Economist and Engineer who was among the first to see the dehumanizing consequences of the "bigger-is-always-better" assumption.

Tags: convergent problem, dead aspect, descriptive sciences, divergent problems, Edgar Cayce, Etienne Gilson, hierarchic structure, inanimate matter, instructional sciences, Jakob Lorber, Maurice Nicoll, philosophical maps, Professor Stace, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, science for manipulation, Therese Neumann, Wilder Penfield

Save Money - Go Green

N. Burr Furlong — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:00:04 UT

Ways in which going green can be personally rewarding as well as helping our environment.

Tags: bottled water, carbon footprint, diet, Ecology, economy, environment, food pyramid, travel

Guide to Greenery - Part 1

Cynthia Furlong & N. Burr Furlong — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:05:51 UT

Excerpts from the phamphet "I Count"

Tags: carbon count, global warming, practical steps, U.K.

Runaway Greenhouse or Runaway Icebox?

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:41:39 UT

Will we trigger an Ice Age by warming the planet to its "Tipping Point?"

To Drill or not to Drill

N. Burr Furlong — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:55:01 UT

A political football has been made of offshore drilling. What's behind this frenzy?

Tags: alternative energies, federal oil land, monopolies, oil drilling, profiteering, public expectation

Some Thoughts Concerning Creationism

N. Burr Furlong — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:40:02 UT

An essay exploring why both the creationists and secular scientists are more often than not too extreme on the real value of Darwinism and the application of evolutionary principles.

Tags: "faith based science", creationism, evolution, open-mindedness

The Climate Crisis - Part 2

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:55:01 UT

The challenge facing us today is not one of gambling on unproven technologies, or even choosing among wind or solar or hydrogen.

Tags: ACTIONS, Climate, solutions

The Climate Crisis

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:55:01 UT

Our only hope of averting planetwide catastrophe is to elect lawmakers with the character and conscience to stand up to the oil and coal lobbies.

Tags: ACTIONS, PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS, SUBSIDIES

Greenovation

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:42:30 UT

A floating mass of plastic twice the size of Texas

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:25:22 UT

No man is an island, but a 20 million square-mile mass of floating plastic sure is. Share your thoughts here on how to solve the problem.