by Beth Alderman | Aug 27, 2020 | General
“Good technologies have few costs in the imaginary world we inhabit, bad technologies have no benefits, and all decisions are easy.” – Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast and Slow In the 1984 world of George Orwell, which was supposedly smashed by Apple in its landmark...
by Beth Alderman | Aug 22, 2020 | General
“All of us must be alert to that greatest of all limitations to wisdom: the assumption.” – Bruce Pascoe in Dark Emu When I first modified a home for poison mitigation, my electrician used the accessible and affordable trifold meter available on Amazon to assess...
by Beth Alderman | Aug 18, 2020 | General
“What we are on the precipice of achieving technologically is inspiring. Truly. There’s another narrative this year, though… a feeling that marching forward, eyes fixed to that old techno-futurist glimmer alone, is walking blind.” – Will Cady in “A New Story for the...
by Beth Alderman | Apr 14, 2020 | General
“You can look at [healing soil] as an old wives’ tale and decide it’s all just superstition, or you can check into it thoroughly to see if there’s anything in the soil that produces antibiotics. I prefer to check.” – Jerry Quinn in “Nature’s Pharmacy” in Smithsonian...
