13 MAR 2015 by ideonexus
Simplified Spelling is Good for Americanization of the World
Foreners, when brought into personal association
with those who speak English, easily learn to speak
English themselvs. Its grammar is simple. It has
great flexibility, due to its richness in terminology and
its abundance of sinonims. It has an unsurpast litera-
ture, making a knowledge of it desirable by those who
hav no call to speak it. In every respect, except one,
it is best fitted to be the language of sience, commerce,
and international communication.
The desirability of havi...03 OCT 2013 by ideonexus
Humanity has Reached the Hatching Point
To begin our position-fixing
aboard our Spaceship Earth we must first acknowledge that the
abundance of immediately consumable, obviously desirable or
utterly essential resources have been sufficient until now to allow us
to carry on despite our ignorance. Being eventually exhaustible and
spoilable, they have been adequate only up to this critical moment.
This cushion-for-error of humanity's survival and growth up to now
was apparently provided just as a bird inside of the egg is provided
wi...Thinking of our Earth as an egg, we have been living on the yolk so far. We are reaching the point, by burning our fossile fuels off and exceeding the production capacity of our agriculture, where our intellect must launch us into the stars.
12 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
The Matthew Effect
[The] complex pattern of the misallocation of credit for scientific work must quite evidently be described as 'the Matthew effect', for, as will be remembered, the Gospel According to St. Matthew puts it this way: For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. Put in less stately language, the Matthew effect consists of the accruing of greater increments of recognition for particular scientific ...Folksonomies: reference attribution
Folksonomies: reference attribution
"complex pattern of the misallocation of credit for scientific work"
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Increases in Wealth in the Last 30 Years have been in the...
There have been trillions of dollars of wealth created in recent decades, but most of it went to a relatively small share of the population. In fact, economist Ed Wolff found that over 100% of all the wealth increase in America between 1983 and 2009 accrued to the top 20% of households. The other four-fifths of the population saw a net decrease in wealth over nearly 30 years. In turn, the top 5% accounted for over 80% of the net increase in wealth and the top 1% for over 40%. With almost a fr...The wealthier you are, the more wealthy you got.