Thursday, 18 July 2019

CAN WE GET OFF FOSSIL FUELS AND LIVE ON RENEWABLES ALONE? DAVID MACKAY'S VIEWS ON ENERGY

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It is undoubtedly true that there is a great deal of hype and misinformation surrounding renewable energy. Sir David J C MacKay, FRS, FInst...
Wednesday, 20 February 2019

LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE - PROFESSOR VACLAV SMIL'S OUTLOOK ON ENERGY EVOLUTION

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Dr Vaclav Smil, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, Canada and author of thirty interdisciplinary books and 5...
Friday, 1 February 2019

HEALING DISEASES WITHOUT DRUGS OR SURGERY - A LOOK AT DEAN ORNISH'S BOOKS

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Dean Ornish, M. D., is the founder and president of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and professor of medicine at the U...
Tuesday, 4 December 2018

THE CAUSES OF INEQUALITY - REVIEW OF ACEMOGLU AND ROBINSON'S "WHY NATIONS FAIL"

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Renowned economists, Daron Acemoglu (of MIT) and James A Robinson (now of University of Chicago) have written a sweeping account of world h...
Wednesday, 24 October 2018

GETTING RICH THE SLOW AND SURE WAY – REVIEW OF MONIKA HALAN’S “LET’S TALK MONEY”

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It was only in my late thirties that I got interested in my finances. Prior to that, especially in my PhD years, I was pretty lackadaisical...
Wednesday, 26 September 2018

TALE OF A SCIENTIFIC CONVERT - REVIEW OF MARK LYNAS'S "SEEDS OF SCIENCE"

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This is the age of big questions: Will AI dominate the world? Will we find a suitable alternative to fossil fuels? Will Big Data make us lo...
Sunday, 19 August 2018

THE VISION OF GLOBAL WARMING THROUGH THE EYES OF LOMBORG – A LOOK AT BJORN LOMBORG’S BOOKS

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A decade ago I read the book Earth in the Balance (1992) written by former US Vice President Al Gore. It talks about how “industrial civil...