Men from Mars
A personal view of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the DOGE Muskrats, who have begun attempting to emasculate the US federal bureaucracy in early 2025.
Technology
The AI Power Struggle
As data centers incorporate new technology that enables artificial intelligence, their already substantial electricity needs will only grow, putting established customers’ supply at risk.
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Going Global: The World Wide Web and Globalization
Physicists and programmers at two high-energy physics laboratories established the World Wide Web in the early 1990s.
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Going Global 2: Impact of the World Wide Web on Globalization
Physicists and programmers who developed the World Wide Web played important roles in the current wave of globalization.
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The Apocalypse Factory
An excerpt from Seattle author and Orcas Currents lecturer Steve Olson’s new book, The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Bomb, destined to become the definitive history of Hanford nuclear reservation in south-central Washington state.
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