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This is my personal journal and day book. For computer related reviews and mail, see Chaos Manor Reviews, which is a continuation of the old BYTE column I began in 1980 with BYTE Magazine.

Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:02 AM

Off to the oncologist

Noonan on Palin

Sarah Palin

Oncologist Report

Many more topics in mail.

Update on my condition and plans; note on Alzheimer's

Recovering from my birthday; mini essay on education

It's Biden; with comments.

Conclusions from the DC/X Reunion

Griffin and the DC/X Reunion

Alamogordo and the DC/X Reunion

Off to Alamogordo

DC/X Anniversary tomorrow

It is not the end of history

Georgia

Georgia on my mind

 A New Cold War

Bombs, Publishers, and the First Amendment

Republican Energy Fumble?

New Scam Warning

The Ivins Mystery

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, RIP.

Move complete. We're on VISTA

Moving Firefox to another machine: Help?

Aftermath. Growing up bright.

Earthquake

Slow Start This Week

A rather dull weekend

Fannie Mae and UFO's. Very scary

Exile and Glory is available.

Crisis in Turkey; McCain and the NYT; and personal energy

Energy, a rash, free Kipling eBooks

More on Energy Policy

Demand, Supply, Energy, Housing

Order a copy of A Step Farther Out today

Escape From Hell available for pre-order

Fed moves to fix things!

The Pope Goes Green; Fannie Mae and the Bubble

A hefty mail bag; new reports for Sue; other topics

Coming up for air: algebra, Kindle, and energy

Questions On Algebra and American History

Intelligent Design and the Purpose of Public Education

Coerced Testimony: Concluded

More on EPCOT

Exile -- and Glory

I think I'm Back

More entropy and time's arrow

Entropy and Time's Arrow

More on prizes

Prizes; and the radiologist thinks I am in good shape.

Intelligent Design; and a Constitutional Question in Turkey

Should USAF Exist?

The UCI MSU Affair

Unlimited Free Energy?

NASA caught: Politics trumps science

Charter Schools

A Modern Jacobite?

An Education Proposal

The Texas Child Abusers

Freeman Dyson on Climate Policy

Set America Free: Part Two

Back from the Oncologist

Education and the Iron Law

Exile--and Glory

The Platinum Patron Club

Some Reflections on University Education and Debt

Energy Questions

IQ and Skills

The Platinum Club

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More recent topics of interest:

Finished with Galleys; it wasn't pneumonia

Algis Budrys, RIP

Ethanol, biofuels, and selling the nation to the Saudis

The Drama of Atheist Humanism

Gods, Dawkins, and Intelligent Design

Dialogue on Israel

Symptoms and Taxes

Taxes; Middle East notes; Hamit and Bezos on POD (Mail)

Relapse; New Discussion, the Bell Curve and the Republic

Recuperation Continues

Restathon continues. Cochran spies horse manure

Reading the morning paper and counting blessings

The Day After Earth Day

Sleepless but hopeful: Coming up.

A better Day

Not a Great Day

Catching Up

Home from Grandparent Duty

Is Israel Finished?

REPORTS

Work in Progress

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Some topics of continuing importance

  How to get my job: the secret of becoming a professional writer.

Want to teach anyone to read English?

George Mosse Lectures

 Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy

How To Publish Your Book as an Ebook

Pournelle's Iron Law and a Defense of the Teacher's Unions

Work In Progress at Chaos Manor

A Serving Officer in Iraq: Letters

The Sons of Martha

"If a foreign nation had imposed this system of education on the United States we would rightly consider it an act of war."

Want to teach your kids to read?

Why the Kids Can't Read

How the Ashkenazi Got Their Smarts

Ice Age and Fallen Angels  

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Saving the space program: things change slowly. The latest is Getting to Space: Prizes. The older relevant papers are still relevant. Start with Getting To Space. You might also look at The Megamissions Paper about military policy. For my testimony to Congress about what to do with NASA and what we learned from DC/X, see Why Have Nasa? Most 0f the space papers are summarized in this Space Reports index page.

You will find my essay on The Voodoo Sciences (what's wrong with social science) here.

Much of what we do here ends up in  Reports. The summary page is here. There are many subjects.

There are a lot of reports. Each reports folder has a summary page. Contents vary among from Republic vs. Empire (and incompetent empire) to the Yorktown Incident through Christening of a godchild to the opening of a corpse plant to picture reports of rolling my Bronco in Death Valley to a stroll along a canal in Japan. How a report ends up in one folder rather than another seems largely to be whim, but they all have quite a bit of good stuff accumulated over the years.

There also photoessays about trips to Paris and Rome.

How to get my job: the secret of becoming a professional writer.

SURVIVAL in DEATH VALLEY: With PIX

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If you got here looking for the MegaMissions paper, click here. I find that my space papers are not well organized or indexed and are very hard to find. I'll try to do something about that. The other paper referenced in my recent talk is Getting to Space.

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How to get my job: the secret of becoming a professional writer.

SURVIVAL in DEATH VALLEY: With PIX

THE STRATEGY OF TECHNOLOGY

George Mosse Lectures

Special Reports on many subjects:

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THE VOODOO SCIENCES

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