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How We’ll Live: Futurists’ 1988 predictions about life in 2013

18th March 2013 – 10:37

I love “futurism” but I like it even better when it’s being seen in the rear view mirror. That’s when it gets really interesting for me. A few years back I re-read most of the 70s and 80s books by Alvin Toffler, futurist author of such best-selling and influential works hailing “the shape of things […]

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the man who saved the world – literally

12th February 2013 – 13:07

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Станисла́в Евгра́фович Петро́в; born c. 1939) is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. On September 26, 1983, he was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported a missile being launched from the United States. Petrov judged that […]

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STUFF I REALLY LIKE: Monetizing the Hate

25th January 2013 – 11:51

I don’t have one fraction of the public attention as a blogger that Heather lives with, but even I, somewhat piddly li’l Appalachian mommyblogger that I am, can be subject to/of some really, really mean online commentary. Lately, I must tell y’all, that anonymous vitriolic stuff has really been getting me down. As someone with […]

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