Hope for All

MANHATTAN CRUDE : in an age (and a war) consumed with Purity, the dying Dr Dawson's gift of crowd-sourced 'impure' natural penicillin was not just a global lifesaver. It was also a window into a new way of looking at the world.

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

the UNSECRET Manhattan Project

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For years, I have been referencing the sub-title to dying Dr Henry Dawson's successful wartime Manhattan-based effort to provide natural...
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Monday, March 14, 2016

Help from All : crowd-solving wartime penicillin

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Vannevar Bush's wartime atomic Manhattan Project was among the most secret projects of all time yet Henry Dawson's wartime penicilli...

camel & needle easier than powerful accepting charity from the powerless

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The conscience-lite version of the difficult concept of Agape is for us well-off people to give (tax-deductible) charity to distant 'poo...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

for powerful, offering charity to powerless far easier than ACCEPTING help from them

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The powerful are a tight-fisted lot but they would far rather give charity to all than accept help from anyone I wish to argue that two...

WWII : Suburban Lives Matter. More.

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There is no evidence that WWII's 'Total War' efforts seriously held up ongoing research to find a cure for Polio. Far from it....
Friday, March 11, 2016

Shaw, Pushkin & Melville : freely mixing fact and fiction

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While novelists Melville ( Moby Dick ) and Pushkin ( Eugene Onegin ) are well known for mixing fact and non fiction in very close quarters, ...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Mo going Po : Bing - Otis : Trying Tenderness

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Can you actually hear the sound of modernity and postmodernity ? I think you can, probably Rob Bowman thinks you can too. To demonstra...
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Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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