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Norman Borlaug received a Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the U. of Minnesota. He was acutely aware of starvation in the world due to food shortages. Norman worked for more than a decade cross-breeding wheat to grow quickly, be disease resistant, and have...
The Mission
The year is 1988 and two young men stare intently at a computer screen, as a tiny flashing dot haltingly scans the screen left to right and top to bottom. This travelling dot mostly leaves the screen painted in plain chunks of blue, green, and cyan. Occasionally the...
Greek for ‘Power’
During the year 1864 in Sweden, a 31 year old man named Alfred mourned the death of his younger brother, Emil. Emil died in an industrial accident making nitroglycerin in the family business. Explosives contribute enormously to civil engineering projects, breaking...
Can we have our Constitution back? Maybe some parts?
Now that we've killed a 54 year old religious fanatic with kidney disease being hidden out by the Pakistani government in a mansion 800 yards from their West Point, can we have our Constitution back? I don't want to be greedy, maybe we could just get back a few...
Smoke Filled Room
I'm a big fan of the Law of Unintended Consequences, specifically, "A perverse effect contrary to what was originally intended." Essentially, I am a connoisseur of irony. To be successful in the primary, a candidate must be at the far fringes of their party in order...