I've just completed my second contribution to Google's " Knol " - their run at Wikipedia 's dominance in the free know...

In a Comment to our Accretion of Power Topic, Howard wrote, in part: In the long run, however, natural resources are what give power to a s...

It seems to be a general principle of human interaction that power draws power to itself. One sees this on both small and large scales, from...

Joel said, "Too often quoting authority leads to questioning credentials (as we have seen) and obscuring the real issues. It's...

There have always been "guardians at the gates" preventing free access to the "press" - until now! Prior to the inventi...

When anthrax was mailed to some media and political figures in 2001, resulting in some deaths, DNA testing fairly quickly determined that it...

Howard agreed to do his new Topics on Biosemiotics and Language (with some help from Joel's Topic on Memory ) with the expectation I w...