As a liberal, socialist, and Democrat, I’m glad to hear the Republican senate has refused to bail out the big three automakers. We do not need a government that will reward poor business practices with corporate welfare. The auto industry, or any industry, should not be a welfare project. Global competition demands business and industry […]
Continue reading →Recently, I found a few copies of Popular Science magazine dated from the 1950’s. What I found remarkable was not the new products created by large companies, but the sheer number of innovations to existing technologies presented. It was not the biggest and newest and most sophisticated, but the little innovations often by ordinary people. […]
Continue reading →For the last few weeks, my 7 year old daughter, Willow, and I have intensely been engaged in Will Wright’s newest game creation, Spore. First, this is one of the most incredble games I’ve ever played. I cannot begin to express how much fun I’ve had playing this game with my daughter, much less how […]
Continue reading →Well, not really, but I just had to post a paragraph from Devendra Sahal’s classic paper, Technological guideposts and innovation avenues (ref below). Sahal brings classic literature into an economic treatise on innovation and weaves the story to accurately make his point. It’s brilliant! We are therefore assured that contrary to the narrative of Jack […]
Continue reading →I’ve been attending the Advanced Weather and Society Integrated Studies WAS*IS Workshop: Beyond Storm Warnings: A collaboration between stakeholders, the National Weather Service (NWS), and the Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT). The workshop has focused on the National Weather Center’s HWT and the role the social sciences and key stakeholders (Emergency Management, public leadership, and the […]
Continue reading →Environmentalists can be too quick to lay blame on the energy industry for global warming. A recent summit in Oklahoma of alternative energy hosted by Congressman Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, was a reminder of the difficulties of the blame game: energy consumption is consumer driven. This was not a summit on energy conservation, although sustainability was […]
Continue reading →Arthur RothKopf, senior VP of the US Chamber of Commerce, wrote a decent response to another question at Politico.com: Jan Morrison of the Gates Foundation recently posed a rhetorical question that perfectly sums up the state of K-12 education: “Do our schools still look like they did in the 1950s – now ask yourself, do […]
Continue reading →Oklahoma education doesn’t get much praise, but I find it hard to sit quietly when others take issue with our few accomplishments. Adam Schaeffer at the Cato Institute started a debate on Oklahoma’s Preschool “successes” as reported by USA Today last week. He states: There’s just one tiny problem. Oklahoma’s achievement scores on National Assessment […]
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