Our failure to plan

We no longer have the discipline and intelligence to plan, and that is our biggest problem, according to James K. Galbraith, who wrote a piece called “Plan” in Harper’s Magazine. Our system is not capitalism.  Our economy has a large public sector, which at its best was competently concerned with…

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People are like Donuts

People are like donuts--topologically, that is.   My daughters and I explored this strange statement with a clay figure modeled around a pen (and then I pulled the pen out).   What is topology? Topology (Greek topos, "place," and logos, "study") is the branch of mathematics that studies the properties of a…

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