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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Annette Baker Fox : the survival of the avirulent state in a Virile Age

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Bacteriologist (Martin) Henry Dawson and Political Scientist Annette Baker Fox doubtlessly never met, but both of their life's work was ...
Monday, June 10, 2013

It was the very ORTHODOXY of their economic theories that doomed Hitler,Tojo and Mussolini

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Devotedly orthodox economist Robert Solow won the 1987 Nobel Prize basically for just one very famous 1974 quote, taken a bit out of context...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

Dawson's commensality supplies Modernity's "Missing Middle"

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Seventy five years on, WWII (conventionally 1939-1945 but actually lasting much longer) looks like nothing more than two great grist stones,...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Between PROGRESS and PROTONS : "The Missing Middle" , where we actually live

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Thirties Reductionism said that once scientists knew the behavior of one of the Protons that made up Winston Churchill's body (and mu...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Modernity : CONCRETE Dams vs ABSTRACT Delusions ...

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When was Chopin born, when did he die, where did Chopin end and his brother begin ? All concrete questions we can definitively answer. T...

Not from our war : "Second Front in the Soviet Far East , NOW !"

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Dream on. Shamefully, there was no public Western pressure put on Stalin to open any sort of Second Front on Japan from the North, during ...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Could "Small is Beautiful" have topped 1930s bestseller lists ?

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He is a brilliant young economist, regarded as one of the best of his generation--- educated at Berlin and Bonn and at the London School of ...

Must Progress inevitably get mightier and wiser ?

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During the truly horrible and nasty 1930s and early 1940s, at the apogee of Reductionist Modernity, this idea was the overall global "m...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Islands and WWII : did anything else important happen (yawn) ?

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For hundreds of millions of avid newspaper readers during WWII, an atlas was essential to follow the conflict's global course. Never m...

a Commensal history of WWII includes the small and the great, the hubristic and the nimble

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To render the sprawling activities of WWII palatable to digestion (because even the most devoted of readers have their limits) the tendency ...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Coalitions, not Combat, lost and won WWII

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England and pre-1937 Germany definitely started and then attempted to direct World War Two throughout , but they certainly didn't win or...
Friday, May 24, 2013

WWII's the Mighty and the Wise "confounded" by bacteria and bazooka Resistance Movements

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It is clear now that WWII's twin defeats of Sulfa drugs and Armoured tanks by the bacterial and bazooka "Resistance Movements"...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

WWII : Constructionists vs Commensalists

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Reductionism , still the philosophy of today's Popular Science, has admittedly had a lot of glass-half-filled success in the last few ce...

WWII Brooklyn to be home to war's biggest killing machine or war's smallest life-saver ?

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In the end, the Borough of Brooklyn (NYC) became home to both : the Iowa class of battleships and the home of most of the war's penicil...