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Who's to blame for America's loss of innovation?

I blogged about one study of forty nations that showed the U.S. falling in competition and innovation. Down to 6th from its former leadership slot. Can we stop the slide? The talkbacks posit various interesting theories and placing of blame. Several indicate...

Tags: Innovation, U.S., America, Teacher, John Muir, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-26

John Muir's Steep Trails 1.0 (Windows)

Steep Trails, originally published in 1919, is a wonderful collection of papers and letter extracts that cover a twenty-nine year period in Muir's life. A must for anyone interested in nature, the book, which features many American wilderness areas and favourites of Muir, not only shows us how passionately he...

Tags: Soft Editions, John Muir, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2002-02-21

Additional Resources

Medical insurance is not a greentech issue, or...

Muir's Law: When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it attached to everything else in the universe. John Muir was right. I have tried to stay away from the nasty squabbles over the gigantic American medical industry. There's an over-supply of hot rhetoric and...

Tags: Industry, Health Care, Insurance, Conservation, Muir, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-22

Energy and food becoming global battlegrounds while high profile VC becomes lightning rod

Energy. Food. Money. The nexus is fraught with political disagreement, high intensity accuations and lots of potential for profit, or disaster. All depends on who you listen to. If the era of cheap petroleum is truly and forever dead, then these battles shall only get more nasty,...

Tags: Brazil, Food, Biofuel, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Biofuel massacre: ethanol's zone of death

We Americans want our gasoline, or ethanol. That means Midwestern farmers are raising the most corn in sixty years. And that, unnaturally, means more fertilizer is being used. That means more nitrogen-rich run-off from the corn fields. That run-off goes into the Mississippi and thence into...

Tags: Gulf Of Mexico, Corn, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Great balls of fire

According to National Geographic News, two Brazilian physicists of the Federal University of Pernambuco have created artificial ball lightning in their lab. Like the ones you may have seen during a thunderstorm, these ball lightning move erratically and burn whatever they touch, even drilling a hole in one of the...

Tags: Energy &, Environment, Science &, Nature, ball lightning, lightning, vapor

Blog posts 2007-01-24

Travel Yosemite National Park - illustrated travel guide and maps (Mobile)

Travel Yosemite National Park is a comprehensive travel guide illustrated with maps and photographs. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. FREE General Information chapter and a map in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Geology, Flora, Fauna and more. What to see and where to stay. Interesting...

Tags: Mobile, PC, Desktop Computer, MobileReference, Handhelds, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-12-07