Brain Scan for Alzheimer's. A recently approved plaque-tracking dye can improve doctors' ability to identify Alzheimer's:
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/40445/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-05-23
The Facebook Fallacy. For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site. Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse and take down the Web:
http://www.technologyreview.com/web/40437/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-05-23
How to be a Damn Good Developmental Manager:
http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2012/05/how-to-be-damn-good-developmental.html
How To Use Memes to Promote Your Business: http://www.techipedia.com/2012/business-memes/
Best Time to Study the Cosmos Was More Than 13 Billion Years Ago: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120522180624.htm
Is Google’s knowledge graph good or evil?:
http://askbobrankin.com/is_googles_knowledge_graph_good_or_evil.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=IzInNXqQA8P6SL
GPS for the Brain: New Brain Map Developed:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120522115024.htm
Componential Theory of Creativity:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7011.html?wknews=05232012
What is Cymbolism: http://www.cymbolism.com/
It’s all about networks:
http://www.jarche.com/2012/05/its-all-about-networks/
It's Official: Google Is Now a Hardware Company:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-22/its-official-google-is-now-a-hardware-company
Population Growth: The Other Inconvenient Truth:
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/population-growth-the-other-inconvenient-truth
Taking Solar Technology Up a Notch: New Inexpensive, Environmentally Friendly Solar Cell Shines With Potential:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120523133236.htm
Artificial Leaf Device Produces Hydrogen in Water Using Only Sunlight: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120523102057.htm
Wearing Two Different Hats: Moral Decisions May Depend On the Situation: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120523135536.htm
New Species Top 10 List: Underworld Worm, Walking Cactus Creature, Blue Tarantula, Sneezing Monkey, and More:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120523133051.htm
Fire Beetles May Revolutionize Early-Warning Systems for Forest Fires:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120523102148.htm
Well connected brains make you smarter in older age:
http://scienceblog.com/54606/well-connected-brains-make-you-smarter-in-older-age/
Research blogging: http://researchblogging.org/
Search for magazine articles: http://magportal.com/
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
QUI CITO 20
Why Death Might Not Be Bad for You: http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/why-death-might-not-be-bad-for-you
Why Facebook isn’t free:
http://bigthink.com/humanizing-technology/jaron-lanier-why-facebook-isnt-free
The scale of the Universe:
http://htwins.net/scale2/?bordercolor=white
Bioinformatics: We Can Learn a Lot from Other Species:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120517192929.htm
Emotionally Intelligent People Are Less Good at Spotting Liars: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120518081317.htm
The Mind teaching modules: http://www.learner.org/resources/series150.html
Teaching Petrology Using the Primary Scientific Literature:
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/petrology/literature.html
Improved search in Gmail:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/improved-search-in-gmail.html
Search engines at war, releasing biggest changes in years
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/16/search-engines-war-releasing-biggest-changes-in-years/
Is Too Much Familiarity Bad For Creativity?:
http://bigthink.com/insights-of-genius/is-too-much-familiarity-bad-for-creativity
How the Brain Chooses Between Doing What We Should and Doing What We Want: http://bigthink.com/ideas/how-the-brain-chooses-between-doing-what-we-should-and-doing-what-we-want
Drug Found for Parasite That Is Major Cause of Death Worldwide:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120520133508.htm
25 handy words that don't exist in English:
http://www.bookofjoe.com/2012/05/25-handy-words-that-dont-exist-in-english.html
Chrome trumps IE as world's top browser: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227341/Chrome_trumps_IE_as_world_s_top_browser?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2012-05-21
Facebook vs. Twitter: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/facebook-vs-twitter/
Marketing Is More Effective When Targeted to Personality Profiles: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120521115652.htm
29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet: http://www.bellybytes.com/articles/29foods.shtml
Why Facebook isn’t free:
http://bigthink.com/humanizing-technology/jaron-lanier-why-facebook-isnt-free
The scale of the Universe:
http://htwins.net/scale2/?bordercolor=white
Bioinformatics: We Can Learn a Lot from Other Species:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120517192929.htm
Emotionally Intelligent People Are Less Good at Spotting Liars: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120518081317.htm
The Mind teaching modules: http://www.learner.org/resources/series150.html
Teaching Petrology Using the Primary Scientific Literature:
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/petrology/literature.html
Improved search in Gmail:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/improved-search-in-gmail.html
Search engines at war, releasing biggest changes in years
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/16/search-engines-war-releasing-biggest-changes-in-years/
Is Too Much Familiarity Bad For Creativity?:
http://bigthink.com/insights-of-genius/is-too-much-familiarity-bad-for-creativity
How the Brain Chooses Between Doing What We Should and Doing What We Want: http://bigthink.com/ideas/how-the-brain-chooses-between-doing-what-we-should-and-doing-what-we-want
Drug Found for Parasite That Is Major Cause of Death Worldwide:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120520133508.htm
25 handy words that don't exist in English:
http://www.bookofjoe.com/2012/05/25-handy-words-that-dont-exist-in-english.html
Chrome trumps IE as world's top browser: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227341/Chrome_trumps_IE_as_world_s_top_browser?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2012-05-21
Facebook vs. Twitter: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/facebook-vs-twitter/
Marketing Is More Effective When Targeted to Personality Profiles: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120521115652.htm
29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet: http://www.bellybytes.com/articles/29foods.shtml
Monday, May 21, 2012
SOLVING INSOLUBLE PROBLEMS.
1. Noblesse oblige
I am an old researcher. Old because the life expectancy for males in this area of the world is 69.8 years and I am now 74.6 years old. And an old researcher because exactly 50 years ago I became the head of a pilot plant aiming to work out a commercial technology of epoxy plasticizers- made from vegetable oils and hydrogen peroxide; used for food grade PVC products. And I have worked in research for the rest of my life.
Old researchers have great duties/tasks. They have not more to care for their professional career (it is over)- they have to work for the future at the very peak of their skills and reputation. Impossible and infinite research tasks, insoluble problems – these define their natural activity. Their work habitat has to be the far right of the Medawar Zone, see please my classical writing: http://www.geocities.jp/hjrfq930/FTEssay/Essays/Gluck.htm
You will see this is about CF/LENR. We will answer later to the question: “Is LENR an insoluble problem?” (and if yes, then why and how, not?)
2. This is the first part of a series.
To make a presentation of the subject “How to solve the insoluble
problems” in the frame of a single writing is a really insoluble problem. Obviously I will try to make the impossible by applying the most adequate methodology, i.e. using my own 20 Problem Solving Rules. I hope you already know that Rule No. 18 is the best for that: “Do NOT accept the premises of the problems, change them, as necessary and possible.” We have to define optimistically and pragmatically the insoluble problems as “the problems that must be radically changed before we can find a
solution for them.
One of the reasons for doing our research in more parts is the situation of the very science to which our endeavor belongs.
My friends in LENR are complaining a lot that LENR is or ignored with hostility, either it is oppressed with brutality. This statement is even more damaging in the case of problemology.
Problemology- is the study of real problems NOT mathematical
Ones, see e.g. http://ifsr.ocg.at/world/files/
It is the most useful of all sciences beyond any doubt; however have you learned problemology in the school? My 20 Rules are known, are accessible on the Web in 19 languages; will they be taught to the young generations? To any generation? Have the great Press helped to disseminate them? No, no, no!
I consider an intellectual crime that such absolutely basic discoveries of problemology as the existence of “wicked problems” see please http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem are not known by everybody and people are kept illiterate in problemology.
We swim in wicked problems, we are systematically killed by them in long- very long range, the situation with many wicked problems will become desperate only after many stages of improvement, it is sooo bad…and who cares? Are you warned during your school years about the dangers of wicked problems? Do you find anti-wicked problems brochures in good hotel rooms? Many people are destroyed by these wicked social problems and have no idea how this has happened.
Very difficult issues, you see, however eventually I will offer you and the World a practical Handbook for Solving Insoluble Problems.
3.A tragic problem: problems are many times more profitable than solutions.
We, independent thinkers have to judge the things very objectively and wisely. A simplification to be avoided is “problems- bad, solutions- good.” It is not realistic in a complex world, full of contradictions, even antagonisms. As I have called this the first rule of Probletence "A problem will NOT be solved if the number, influence and/or power of the people living, taking profit from the problem, is greater than the same characteristics of the people who want solve the problem."
The first example that comes to my mind is the mission of the pharmaceutical industry. The initial purpose of it was to manufacture products and other things that make people healthy.
Very soon the means have replaced the aims and the pharmaceutical companies want to make big money by selling medicines helping (and HELLping) both people and illnesses to survive, to coexists. The best customers are those addicted for life to our products. These strange Problem-Solution hybrids are very profitable.
Or let’s take death...is it really a Problem? Some gerontologists as the famous Aubrey de Grey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey are telling us that we will solve both the problem of aging (we will remain young) and of death (we will become immortal, more or less). I suppose he is popular and makes good money and I send him the old good wish “”Bis Hundertzwanzig”- but he wishes more than 120.
Re immortality I think this could be an awfully strange solution of a problem that actually does not exist. Suppose we had been immortal from the very start (in the Garden of Eden we were so but we have sinned and good-bye eternal life!) due to immortality today a small minority of 7 billion people had to take care of some 112 billions – a real orgy of multiculturalisms- and a tremendous diversity of ages -beyond imagination.
The issue of immortality-as-solution could not be complete without the story of Eos. (You see, one of the roots of my sympathy for Defkalion is Greek mythology-an inexhaustible treasure of wise/instructive stories; Greek mythology was the last
religion with humans-like gods and vice-versa (hybridizable). Please re-read
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/01/stop-koalemos.html
it explains the connection between Greek gods and our most wicked problems- now!
OK, Eos the goddess of dawn =was what we will call today, very unjustly and in the stupid sexist mode- a blonde. Insatiable sexual appetite, a strange preference for handsome humans, well hidden intelligence. In the case of Tithonos one of her best lovers Eos has asked Zeus to make this guy immortal but forgot to ask eternal youth for him too. So, Tithonos was transformed soon in an old monster looking like a horror or nightmare figure unable to move a single part of his body, shrunken, dried, stinking. Eventually the story was settled Olympus style- Tithonos was metamorphosed in some nasty insect. (The DDR writer Franz Fuhmann, specialized in myths in the literature wrote an absolutely charming variant of this story) But the essence is: a partial solution can be much worse that the initial problem.
4. The solutions are not in old writings but in new work.
The eternal problem of death- “I die and then nothing will remain for me, nothing at all!” is psychologically unacceptable, therefore the problem, despite its inexistence has generated a lot of solutions very profitable for the vendor. See please Rule no. 10 :”NOT the solutions that are logical and perfectly rational but those that are adequate for the feelings of the potential users, even if they are illogical, have the greatest chances for fast implementation” That is, expected, desired, positive falsities are more readily ‘swallowed’ than the smart unpleasant truth. If you can offer a solution to death, “it is not over, if you believe some things, abstain from some deeds, practice some rituals, respect certain taboos, strictly follow the Rules, repeat regularly the good spells and gladly give a part of your money to us, we will warrantee you a second life. This second life will be absolutely without problems a real enchantment- the reward of your conformist behavior. Different tribes offer you their best and unique true way to transform death in a wonderful new existence.
I have learned the power of Rule 17: “Not always the existent, real problems, but many times the fictive, imaginary ones can be solved with the greatest difficulty.” When and where this does apply, then it is irresistible. All the creative energies are consumed for the imaginary problems- and the real problems
are aggravating.
You will be forced to accept that everything is written in the Old Books- the depositaries of divine and human wisdom. It is useless to search for solutions in other places, it is counter-productive to try to create, build new solutions. Personal problem solving initiatives are discouraged.
For me the problem of death is rather acute, however I am too busy, too focused on the short future and too suspicious toward the long past, I don’t want a second life. Geography is destiny, history is a prison. Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper! (old saying, usually censored) If it is possible I will try to come back in order to see what became my dreams. If not, not. I have learned that you cannot succeed in everything.
5. I got help and inspiration
I want to tell you first of all about how to solve the insoluble social problems; a continuation of my essay: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/02/insoluble-problems-of-social-science.html. The sad truth is that after analyzing the offer and ideas of the Left and of the Right, after discovering that the present Crisis is systemic, I have concluded that the social problems are essentially insoluble. The metaphoric description of this situation is: the Whole became suddenly smaller than the sum of its Parts. In cases of synergies, the Whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The most adequate antonym of synergy is undermining, just think about this please.
At this point the Internet, my good friend, has sent me a sign of encouragement. Paradoxically it was an Old Book! A prophetic old book that shows masterfully the root cause of the present disaster. The book is “THE RULING MINORITY” (1974) written by Lawrence R. Krivit, the father of Steve Krivit our LENR journalist. Due to Steve’s very radical negative position re
Andrea Rossi we had some explosive exchanges of ideas (I am a 100% alpha character and a grumpy old man) but eventually we have decided that the things that unite us are more important than those in which we have antagonist opinions.
The book is a captivating lecture, Krivit-father was an excellent writer and a very skilled thinker, you can understand step by step in a natural gradation the harm done by inherited great wealth to
the society. I warmly recommend you to get the electronic (Kindle) edition of the book. Go please to:
http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2012/05/18/a-new-old-book-on-economics-and-politics/
The book is actually about one of the most damaging social phenomena- let’s call it euphemistically the problem of privileges. (parasites is not correct politically, biologically and conceptually) My septoe can be applied here: “Human rights are threatened by Human Privileges” A story repeated from the dawns of human history. The first king and the first shaman were privileged persons with no real justification. The society accepts that some people (in this case those who inherit huge riches) are above the other people. What we call democracy is undermined by phenomena as those described here: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/07/dirtiest-f-word.html
and here:
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/04/non-event-not-as-harmless-as-i-thought.html
These two writings had zero echoes and no impact- but both describe most destructive cases of the suicidal complicity of the victims and deserve the attention of those implied.
An other pathological anomaly in problem solving: privileges are a problem but are seen as a solution. I was shocked to see how many otherwise reasonable and rational people in Romania became monarchists recently. It’s true -democracy has not offered many politicians we can trust. I think Pareto’s Law applies here in a special form- democracy here is 80% solution but 20% problem.
What’s a source of hopes: the 99% seem to have understood
that the 1% so well described and characterized by Larry Krivit so many years ago-are a problem that generates other problems.
6. How to start?
First we have to decide, firmly and irreversibly: are we in deep trouble or do we have problems we will solve? Will we complain
or will we attack the problem skillfully (option)?
Then let’s abandon both conceptual and operational prejudices
and please get rid of any trace of nostalgia for imaginary events. that have never happened and good old times that have never been,
Then please realize that even if we are living in kind of distopic times/places the task is not to chase an utopia but to build a
good realtopia (this word was taken as a trademark and by other
domains but you understand what I want to say-as usual let’s be realistic, materialistic and pragmatic, not idealistic. You cannot use imaginary tools when working/fighting with real problems.
I will come back soon. Please help me -send me with suggestions re Solutions Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and re Problems in all the other weekdays.
Please help me to solve this great problem: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2012/02/problem-solving-quasi-desperate-appeal.html This Project is going very slowly, and I am very unhappy because I still do not have the text of my 20 Rules in translated in some languages spoken by more than 100 million people: Japanese, Arabic, languages of India and Esperanto as well. Thank you in advance.
I am optimist- we will be able to solve all the great social problems and we can focus totally on LENR. Believe me, we will use it on the largest scale and we will even have a theory- a unique and true one, for it.
I have added a small list of useful problemology links; enjoy!
http://thegreatestchallengesofourtime.com/the-greatest-challenges-of-our-time.pdf http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/kant/universal-history.htm
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/07/wicked-1.html
http://mcgeesmusings.net/2012/02/14/defining-characteristics-of-wicked-problems/
http://philanthropynews.alliancemagazine.org/wicked-solutions-to-wicked-problems/
http://discoverwithin.blogspot.com/2012/04/wicked-problems-through-nemetics.html
http://www.kenanmalik.com/essays/against_mc.html
http://www.wfs.org/forecasts/index.html
Peter
I am an old researcher. Old because the life expectancy for males in this area of the world is 69.8 years and I am now 74.6 years old. And an old researcher because exactly 50 years ago I became the head of a pilot plant aiming to work out a commercial technology of epoxy plasticizers- made from vegetable oils and hydrogen peroxide; used for food grade PVC products. And I have worked in research for the rest of my life.
Old researchers have great duties/tasks. They have not more to care for their professional career (it is over)- they have to work for the future at the very peak of their skills and reputation. Impossible and infinite research tasks, insoluble problems – these define their natural activity. Their work habitat has to be the far right of the Medawar Zone, see please my classical writing: http://www.geocities.jp/hjrfq930/FTEssay/Essays/Gluck.htm
You will see this is about CF/LENR. We will answer later to the question: “Is LENR an insoluble problem?” (and if yes, then why and how, not?)
2. This is the first part of a series.
To make a presentation of the subject “How to solve the insoluble
problems” in the frame of a single writing is a really insoluble problem. Obviously I will try to make the impossible by applying the most adequate methodology, i.e. using my own 20 Problem Solving Rules. I hope you already know that Rule No. 18 is the best for that: “Do NOT accept the premises of the problems, change them, as necessary and possible.” We have to define optimistically and pragmatically the insoluble problems as “the problems that must be radically changed before we can find a
solution for them.
One of the reasons for doing our research in more parts is the situation of the very science to which our endeavor belongs.
My friends in LENR are complaining a lot that LENR is or ignored with hostility, either it is oppressed with brutality. This statement is even more damaging in the case of problemology.
Problemology- is the study of real problems NOT mathematical
Ones, see e.g. http://ifsr.ocg.at/world/files/
It is the most useful of all sciences beyond any doubt; however have you learned problemology in the school? My 20 Rules are known, are accessible on the Web in 19 languages; will they be taught to the young generations? To any generation? Have the great Press helped to disseminate them? No, no, no!
I consider an intellectual crime that such absolutely basic discoveries of problemology as the existence of “wicked problems” see please http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem are not known by everybody and people are kept illiterate in problemology.
We swim in wicked problems, we are systematically killed by them in long- very long range, the situation with many wicked problems will become desperate only after many stages of improvement, it is sooo bad…and who cares? Are you warned during your school years about the dangers of wicked problems? Do you find anti-wicked problems brochures in good hotel rooms? Many people are destroyed by these wicked social problems and have no idea how this has happened.
Very difficult issues, you see, however eventually I will offer you and the World a practical Handbook for Solving Insoluble Problems.
3.A tragic problem: problems are many times more profitable than solutions.
We, independent thinkers have to judge the things very objectively and wisely. A simplification to be avoided is “problems- bad, solutions- good.” It is not realistic in a complex world, full of contradictions, even antagonisms. As I have called this the first rule of Probletence "A problem will NOT be solved if the number, influence and/or power of the people living, taking profit from the problem, is greater than the same characteristics of the people who want solve the problem."
The first example that comes to my mind is the mission of the pharmaceutical industry. The initial purpose of it was to manufacture products and other things that make people healthy.
Very soon the means have replaced the aims and the pharmaceutical companies want to make big money by selling medicines helping (and HELLping) both people and illnesses to survive, to coexists. The best customers are those addicted for life to our products. These strange Problem-Solution hybrids are very profitable.
Or let’s take death...is it really a Problem? Some gerontologists as the famous Aubrey de Grey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey are telling us that we will solve both the problem of aging (we will remain young) and of death (we will become immortal, more or less). I suppose he is popular and makes good money and I send him the old good wish “”Bis Hundertzwanzig”- but he wishes more than 120.
Re immortality I think this could be an awfully strange solution of a problem that actually does not exist. Suppose we had been immortal from the very start (in the Garden of Eden we were so but we have sinned and good-bye eternal life!) due to immortality today a small minority of 7 billion people had to take care of some 112 billions – a real orgy of multiculturalisms- and a tremendous diversity of ages -beyond imagination.
The issue of immortality-as-solution could not be complete without the story of Eos. (You see, one of the roots of my sympathy for Defkalion is Greek mythology-an inexhaustible treasure of wise/instructive stories; Greek mythology was the last
religion with humans-like gods and vice-versa (hybridizable). Please re-read
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/01/stop-koalemos.html
it explains the connection between Greek gods and our most wicked problems- now!
OK, Eos the goddess of dawn =was what we will call today, very unjustly and in the stupid sexist mode- a blonde. Insatiable sexual appetite, a strange preference for handsome humans, well hidden intelligence. In the case of Tithonos one of her best lovers Eos has asked Zeus to make this guy immortal but forgot to ask eternal youth for him too. So, Tithonos was transformed soon in an old monster looking like a horror or nightmare figure unable to move a single part of his body, shrunken, dried, stinking. Eventually the story was settled Olympus style- Tithonos was metamorphosed in some nasty insect. (The DDR writer Franz Fuhmann, specialized in myths in the literature wrote an absolutely charming variant of this story) But the essence is: a partial solution can be much worse that the initial problem.
4. The solutions are not in old writings but in new work.
The eternal problem of death- “I die and then nothing will remain for me, nothing at all!” is psychologically unacceptable, therefore the problem, despite its inexistence has generated a lot of solutions very profitable for the vendor. See please Rule no. 10 :”NOT the solutions that are logical and perfectly rational but those that are adequate for the feelings of the potential users, even if they are illogical, have the greatest chances for fast implementation” That is, expected, desired, positive falsities are more readily ‘swallowed’ than the smart unpleasant truth. If you can offer a solution to death, “it is not over, if you believe some things, abstain from some deeds, practice some rituals, respect certain taboos, strictly follow the Rules, repeat regularly the good spells and gladly give a part of your money to us, we will warrantee you a second life. This second life will be absolutely without problems a real enchantment- the reward of your conformist behavior. Different tribes offer you their best and unique true way to transform death in a wonderful new existence.
I have learned the power of Rule 17: “Not always the existent, real problems, but many times the fictive, imaginary ones can be solved with the greatest difficulty.” When and where this does apply, then it is irresistible. All the creative energies are consumed for the imaginary problems- and the real problems
are aggravating.
You will be forced to accept that everything is written in the Old Books- the depositaries of divine and human wisdom. It is useless to search for solutions in other places, it is counter-productive to try to create, build new solutions. Personal problem solving initiatives are discouraged.
For me the problem of death is rather acute, however I am too busy, too focused on the short future and too suspicious toward the long past, I don’t want a second life. Geography is destiny, history is a prison. Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper! (old saying, usually censored) If it is possible I will try to come back in order to see what became my dreams. If not, not. I have learned that you cannot succeed in everything.
5. I got help and inspiration
I want to tell you first of all about how to solve the insoluble social problems; a continuation of my essay: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/02/insoluble-problems-of-social-science.html. The sad truth is that after analyzing the offer and ideas of the Left and of the Right, after discovering that the present Crisis is systemic, I have concluded that the social problems are essentially insoluble. The metaphoric description of this situation is: the Whole became suddenly smaller than the sum of its Parts. In cases of synergies, the Whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The most adequate antonym of synergy is undermining, just think about this please.
At this point the Internet, my good friend, has sent me a sign of encouragement. Paradoxically it was an Old Book! A prophetic old book that shows masterfully the root cause of the present disaster. The book is “THE RULING MINORITY” (1974) written by Lawrence R. Krivit, the father of Steve Krivit our LENR journalist. Due to Steve’s very radical negative position re
Andrea Rossi we had some explosive exchanges of ideas (I am a 100% alpha character and a grumpy old man) but eventually we have decided that the things that unite us are more important than those in which we have antagonist opinions.
The book is a captivating lecture, Krivit-father was an excellent writer and a very skilled thinker, you can understand step by step in a natural gradation the harm done by inherited great wealth to
the society. I warmly recommend you to get the electronic (Kindle) edition of the book. Go please to:
http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2012/05/18/a-new-old-book-on-economics-and-politics/
The book is actually about one of the most damaging social phenomena- let’s call it euphemistically the problem of privileges. (parasites is not correct politically, biologically and conceptually) My septoe can be applied here: “Human rights are threatened by Human Privileges” A story repeated from the dawns of human history. The first king and the first shaman were privileged persons with no real justification. The society accepts that some people (in this case those who inherit huge riches) are above the other people. What we call democracy is undermined by phenomena as those described here: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/07/dirtiest-f-word.html
and here:
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/04/non-event-not-as-harmless-as-i-thought.html
These two writings had zero echoes and no impact- but both describe most destructive cases of the suicidal complicity of the victims and deserve the attention of those implied.
An other pathological anomaly in problem solving: privileges are a problem but are seen as a solution. I was shocked to see how many otherwise reasonable and rational people in Romania became monarchists recently. It’s true -democracy has not offered many politicians we can trust. I think Pareto’s Law applies here in a special form- democracy here is 80% solution but 20% problem.
What’s a source of hopes: the 99% seem to have understood
that the 1% so well described and characterized by Larry Krivit so many years ago-are a problem that generates other problems.
6. How to start?
First we have to decide, firmly and irreversibly: are we in deep trouble or do we have problems we will solve? Will we complain
or will we attack the problem skillfully (option)?
Then let’s abandon both conceptual and operational prejudices
and please get rid of any trace of nostalgia for imaginary events. that have never happened and good old times that have never been,
Then please realize that even if we are living in kind of distopic times/places the task is not to chase an utopia but to build a
good realtopia (this word was taken as a trademark and by other
domains but you understand what I want to say-as usual let’s be realistic, materialistic and pragmatic, not idealistic. You cannot use imaginary tools when working/fighting with real problems.
I will come back soon. Please help me -send me with suggestions re Solutions Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and re Problems in all the other weekdays.
Please help me to solve this great problem: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2012/02/problem-solving-quasi-desperate-appeal.html This Project is going very slowly, and I am very unhappy because I still do not have the text of my 20 Rules in translated in some languages spoken by more than 100 million people: Japanese, Arabic, languages of India and Esperanto as well. Thank you in advance.
I am optimist- we will be able to solve all the great social problems and we can focus totally on LENR. Believe me, we will use it on the largest scale and we will even have a theory- a unique and true one, for it.
I have added a small list of useful problemology links; enjoy!
http://thegreatestchallengesofourtime.com/the-greatest-challenges-of-our-time.pdf http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/kant/universal-history.htm
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/07/wicked-1.html
http://mcgeesmusings.net/2012/02/14/defining-characteristics-of-wicked-problems/
http://philanthropynews.alliancemagazine.org/wicked-solutions-to-wicked-problems/
http://discoverwithin.blogspot.com/2012/04/wicked-problems-through-nemetics.html
http://www.kenanmalik.com/essays/against_mc.html
http://www.wfs.org/forecasts/index.html
Peter
Friday, May 18, 2012
QUI CITO 19:
Google aims to make search smarter, easier
Upgraded Google search engine adds Knowledge Graph to get queries more on point: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227211/Google_aims_to_make_search_smarter_easier?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2012-05-16
How Technology Can Help Us Find Happiness: http://bigthink.com/ideas/how-technology-can-help-us-find-happiness
In 8 Years, Facebook Changed All We Do Online. In the storm that is Facebook's IPO, we pause to take note of the way the social network has transformed the way we live now:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1837657/facebook-innovation-how-the-social-network-changed-everything-you-do-in-8-short-years
How Tribalism Overrules Reason, and Makes Risky Times More Dangerous: http://bigthink.com/ideas/how-tribalism-overrules-reason-and-makes-risky-times-more-dangerous
Cultural Cognition Project: http://www.culturalcognition.net/
Facebook vs. Google: The epic battle:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57435965-93/facebook-vs-google-the-epic-battle/?tag=nl.e703
3 Ways to Improve Your Positive Intelligence (PQ): http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2012/05/3-ways-to-improve-your-positive.html
Facebook's Technology Timeline
A look back at the moments that have shaped Facebook's success.:
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/40394/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-05-18
BBQ Recipes - Food Network
http://www.foodnetwork.com/grilling-central-barbecue/package/index.html
World Public Opinion: http://worldpublicopinion.org/
Religion Is a Potent Force for Cooperation and Conflict, Research Shows: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120517143631.htm
In Chemical Reactions, Water Adds Speed Without Heat:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120517143506.htm
Suspicion Resides in Two Regions of the Brain: Our Baseline Level of Distrust Is Distinct and Separable from Our Inborn Lie Detector
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120517143506.htm
OMG! Texting Ups Truthfulness, New iPhone Study Suggests:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120516120254.htm
The Etymology of Food, Part I: Why Nothing Rhymes With Orange:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/05/the-etymology-of-food-part-i-why-nothing-rhymes-with-orange/
Aging with Pride: The Call for Boomer Consciousness: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-orsborn/aging-with-pride-the-call_b_1429906.html?
Upgraded Google search engine adds Knowledge Graph to get queries more on point: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227211/Google_aims_to_make_search_smarter_easier?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2012-05-16
How Technology Can Help Us Find Happiness: http://bigthink.com/ideas/how-technology-can-help-us-find-happiness
In 8 Years, Facebook Changed All We Do Online. In the storm that is Facebook's IPO, we pause to take note of the way the social network has transformed the way we live now:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1837657/facebook-innovation-how-the-social-network-changed-everything-you-do-in-8-short-years
How Tribalism Overrules Reason, and Makes Risky Times More Dangerous: http://bigthink.com/ideas/how-tribalism-overrules-reason-and-makes-risky-times-more-dangerous
Cultural Cognition Project: http://www.culturalcognition.net/
Facebook vs. Google: The epic battle:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57435965-93/facebook-vs-google-the-epic-battle/?tag=nl.e703
3 Ways to Improve Your Positive Intelligence (PQ): http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2012/05/3-ways-to-improve-your-positive.html
Facebook's Technology Timeline
A look back at the moments that have shaped Facebook's success.:
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/40394/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-05-18
BBQ Recipes - Food Network
http://www.foodnetwork.com/grilling-central-barbecue/package/index.html
World Public Opinion: http://worldpublicopinion.org/
Religion Is a Potent Force for Cooperation and Conflict, Research Shows: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120517143631.htm
In Chemical Reactions, Water Adds Speed Without Heat:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120517143506.htm
Suspicion Resides in Two Regions of the Brain: Our Baseline Level of Distrust Is Distinct and Separable from Our Inborn Lie Detector
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120517143506.htm
OMG! Texting Ups Truthfulness, New iPhone Study Suggests:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120516120254.htm
The Etymology of Food, Part I: Why Nothing Rhymes With Orange:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/05/the-etymology-of-food-part-i-why-nothing-rhymes-with-orange/
Aging with Pride: The Call for Boomer Consciousness: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-orsborn/aging-with-pride-the-call_b_1429906.html?
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
QUI CITO 18
Help your students become better searchers:
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/
The 6 Passages of Leadership and Management:
http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2012/05/6-passages-of-leadership-and-management.html
Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking?:
http://www.copyblogger.com/mental-blocks-creative-thinking/
The Six Enemies of Greatness (and Happiness): http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy/2012/02/28/the-six-enemies-of-greatness-and-happiness/
I like Robert Genn’s editorials, this one is special:
http://clicks.robertgenn.com/current-economics.php
WIND HUNTER hydrogen generation system:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/3qRyGQ
Can We Blame Global Poverty on Pessimism?:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/can-we-blame-global-poverty-on-pessimism
Scientists Generate Electricity from Viruses:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120513144619.htm
Please read: Issue 131 - Hoax-Slayer Newsletter:
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/issue-131.shtml
The Future of Pharma Is Incredibly Fast. Continuous manufacturing will transform the way drugs are made, says Novartis CEO:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/27839/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2012-05-15
.
This is your brain on sugar: UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory: http://earthsky.org/science-wire/this-is-your-brain-on-sugar-ucla-study-shows-high-fructose-diet-sabotages-learning-memory
Fast-Growing Companies Use Social Media Most: http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/fast-growing-companies-use-social-media-most
Can the Internet Ever Be an Intimate Social Space?:
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/can-the-internet-ever-be-an-intimate-social-space
It is time to simplify:
http://www.jarche.com/2012/05/it-is-time-to-simplify/
New Look at Prolonged Radiation Exposure: At Low Dose-Rate, Radiation Poses Little Risk to DNA, Study Suggests:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120515181256.htm
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/
The 6 Passages of Leadership and Management:
http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2012/05/6-passages-of-leadership-and-management.html
Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking?:
http://www.copyblogger.com/mental-blocks-creative-thinking/
The Six Enemies of Greatness (and Happiness): http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy/2012/02/28/the-six-enemies-of-greatness-and-happiness/
I like Robert Genn’s editorials, this one is special:
http://clicks.robertgenn.com/current-economics.php
WIND HUNTER hydrogen generation system:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/3qRyGQ
Can We Blame Global Poverty on Pessimism?:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/can-we-blame-global-poverty-on-pessimism
Scientists Generate Electricity from Viruses:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120513144619.htm
Please read: Issue 131 - Hoax-Slayer Newsletter:
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/issue-131.shtml
The Future of Pharma Is Incredibly Fast. Continuous manufacturing will transform the way drugs are made, says Novartis CEO:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/27839/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2012-05-15
.
This is your brain on sugar: UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory: http://earthsky.org/science-wire/this-is-your-brain-on-sugar-ucla-study-shows-high-fructose-diet-sabotages-learning-memory
Fast-Growing Companies Use Social Media Most: http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/fast-growing-companies-use-social-media-most
Can the Internet Ever Be an Intimate Social Space?:
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/can-the-internet-ever-be-an-intimate-social-space
It is time to simplify:
http://www.jarche.com/2012/05/it-is-time-to-simplify/
New Look at Prolonged Radiation Exposure: At Low Dose-Rate, Radiation Poses Little Risk to DNA, Study Suggests:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120515181256.htm
Monday, May 14, 2012
17-th translation of my Problem Solving Rules: In Danish!
Professor DIETER BRITZ from the Aarhus University has helped me again.
He has demonstrated his friendship and generosity from the first years of
the Cold Fusion history when he has sent me regularly his excellent CF Bibliography
first printed than on disks by snail-mail. A rule- not of problem solving: people who
were nice before the Internet are nice now too.
REGLER FOR PROBLEMLØSNING
Motto:
Jeg tænker, jeg eksisterer. Jeg beslutter at leve. Jeg løser problemer, jeg
lever med et formål.
1. Der findes ikke isolerede problemer; de kommer altid i dynamiske klynger.
2. Der er ingen endelige løsninger for de virkelige store problemer; disse
skal løses igen og igen.
3. Det er IKKE at løse problemet men at definiere det, som er det kritiske
trin.
4. Det er IKKE de ukendte data men de kendte og de fejlagtige, som er den
største hindring for at opnå en løsning.
5. Det er IKKE hvad vi ved men hvad vi ikke ved, som er det mere vigtige i at
løse problemet.
6. Det er IKKE den mest ønskede positiv effekt, men de sekundære negative
og/eller uøsnkede effekter, som i de fleste tilfælde afgør om en løsning
kan implementeres.
7. IKKE alle problemer har en fuldstændig og sand løsning.
8. Det er IKKE de løsninger der forekommer perfekt fra starten, men dem som
kan gøres perfekt, som er de bedste i mange tilfælde.
9. Det er IKKE de skinnende spektakulære løsninger, men dem der er udarbejdede
med anstrengelser og tålmodighed som er de mere værdifulde og som har det
større anvendelsesområde.
10. Det er IKKE de løsninger som virker logiske og perfekt rationelle, men dem
som er tilstrækkelig ifølge de potentielle brugere, selvom de er ulogiske,
som har de største muligheder for hurtig implementering.
11. Det er IKKE løsningens kvalitet men hvor hurtig den findes, som er den
afgørende faktor i mange tilfælde. Det kan være bedre at finde en delvis
løsning som kan anvendes straks, end en langsom næsten perfekt løsning.
12. Det er IKKE altid lang tids hårdt arbejde og voldsomme anstrengelser, men
(sommetider) adspredelse og sjov, som er den bedste måde at opnå løsninger
til de (skrækkelig) svære problemer.
13. Det er IKKE vores egne problemer men dem andre har, som bliver løst på en
dristig og kreativ måde.
14. Det er IKKE de løsninger vi selv har fundet men dem vi har lånt, købt
eller stålet, som er lettere accepterede og implementerede.
15. Det er IKKE menneskelig styrke men den begrænsning givet af menneskelig
svaghed, som er mere brugbar for effektiv problemløsning.
16. Det er IKKE den forsigtige og perfekte planlægning, men den smarte
risikotagning og beslutsomhed, som er nøglerne til succes i problemløsning.
17. Det er IKKE de eksisterende virkelige problemer, men derimod tit de
fiktive imaginære, som er de sværeste at løse.
18. Acceptér IKKE premisserne af et problem; ændr dem når det er nødvendigt
og muligt.
19. Stop IKKE ved den første løsning; søg efter alternativer.
Men, for de virkelig avancerede problemknusere er der en superregel, den
vigtigste af alle:
20. Det er IKKE den kloge anvendelse af de ovenstående regler, men at finde
de specifikke undtagelser til disse, som er den høje kunst i
problemløsning.
He has demonstrated his friendship and generosity from the first years of
the Cold Fusion history when he has sent me regularly his excellent CF Bibliography
first printed than on disks by snail-mail. A rule- not of problem solving: people who
were nice before the Internet are nice now too.
REGLER FOR PROBLEMLØSNING
Motto:
Jeg tænker, jeg eksisterer. Jeg beslutter at leve. Jeg løser problemer, jeg
lever med et formål.
1. Der findes ikke isolerede problemer; de kommer altid i dynamiske klynger.
2. Der er ingen endelige løsninger for de virkelige store problemer; disse
skal løses igen og igen.
3. Det er IKKE at løse problemet men at definiere det, som er det kritiske
trin.
4. Det er IKKE de ukendte data men de kendte og de fejlagtige, som er den
største hindring for at opnå en løsning.
5. Det er IKKE hvad vi ved men hvad vi ikke ved, som er det mere vigtige i at
løse problemet.
6. Det er IKKE den mest ønskede positiv effekt, men de sekundære negative
og/eller uøsnkede effekter, som i de fleste tilfælde afgør om en løsning
kan implementeres.
7. IKKE alle problemer har en fuldstændig og sand løsning.
8. Det er IKKE de løsninger der forekommer perfekt fra starten, men dem som
kan gøres perfekt, som er de bedste i mange tilfælde.
9. Det er IKKE de skinnende spektakulære løsninger, men dem der er udarbejdede
med anstrengelser og tålmodighed som er de mere værdifulde og som har det
større anvendelsesområde.
10. Det er IKKE de løsninger som virker logiske og perfekt rationelle, men dem
som er tilstrækkelig ifølge de potentielle brugere, selvom de er ulogiske,
som har de største muligheder for hurtig implementering.
11. Det er IKKE løsningens kvalitet men hvor hurtig den findes, som er den
afgørende faktor i mange tilfælde. Det kan være bedre at finde en delvis
løsning som kan anvendes straks, end en langsom næsten perfekt løsning.
12. Det er IKKE altid lang tids hårdt arbejde og voldsomme anstrengelser, men
(sommetider) adspredelse og sjov, som er den bedste måde at opnå løsninger
til de (skrækkelig) svære problemer.
13. Det er IKKE vores egne problemer men dem andre har, som bliver løst på en
dristig og kreativ måde.
14. Det er IKKE de løsninger vi selv har fundet men dem vi har lånt, købt
eller stålet, som er lettere accepterede og implementerede.
15. Det er IKKE menneskelig styrke men den begrænsning givet af menneskelig
svaghed, som er mere brugbar for effektiv problemløsning.
16. Det er IKKE den forsigtige og perfekte planlægning, men den smarte
risikotagning og beslutsomhed, som er nøglerne til succes i problemløsning.
17. Det er IKKE de eksisterende virkelige problemer, men derimod tit de
fiktive imaginære, som er de sværeste at løse.
18. Acceptér IKKE premisserne af et problem; ændr dem når det er nødvendigt
og muligt.
19. Stop IKKE ved den første løsning; søg efter alternativer.
Men, for de virkelig avancerede problemknusere er der en superregel, den
vigtigste af alle:
20. Det er IKKE den kloge anvendelse af de ovenstående regler, men at finde
de specifikke undtagelser til disse, som er den høje kunst i
problemløsning.
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