Why Humanity Needs HeroesIn 2003, an experienced weight-shift hang glider pilot, funded by BBC, has built and successfully flown a glider designed half a millenium…Mar 15Mar 15
Thoughts on Thanksgiving in 2024European colonization of most of the rest of the planet appears to have been a fairly chaotic, decentralized affair; it was not the…Dec 1, 2024Dec 1, 2024
Useless knowledge, frustrated pupils and spiteful adultsIn debates about education, it comes up quite often that schools teach a whole lot of specialized knowledge from math and physics that most…Feb 25, 2024Feb 25, 2024
On “The Situation in Belarus”A Belarusian friend living in the States contacted me and after catching up on personal affairs, told me that another friend of ours sent…Sep 26, 2023Sep 26, 2023
Anarchy without CapitalismI have recently run across an interesting FB post (in Russian, peppered with some Ukrainian and Polish) apparently about a living remnant…Jul 31, 2023Jul 31, 2023
An Automated Scam against ERC20 TransactionsA friend of mine has recently fallen victim to an insidious scam aimed at USDT stablecoin users on Ethereum mainnet. In principle, it can…Jul 21, 2023Jul 21, 2023
The Facemask is Not a Free RollThere is a fairly popular idea that wearing a facemask is a negligible inconvenience that may just prevent someone from getting infected…Nov 10, 2020Nov 10, 2020
Taking Food from the TableThis essay is a response to Orsolya Ujj’s article in The New Atlantis, in which she explores the differences in European and American views…Jan 18, 2017Jan 18, 2017
