As luck or providence (or willfully being in the right place at the right time by the power of a productive mix of intuition and earned wisdom) I've managed to get a copy of something that offers me, and perhaps a reader or two, a few words of sympathy. Here is the link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/26...

+++++++++ Sometimes communicating by text only can lead to misunderstandings, as we miss many of the non-verbal aspects of communication. +++++++++ etudiant, What I do during discussions on forums is to read and respond, sometimes I get behind and fail to read the entire message from someone I am co...

It is this: discoveries are getting, by our best estimates, smaller and smaller. etudiant, I stopped reading your reply there, I see a need to respond before moving on. What if you are wrong? You say this, and you say that, and I respond with a specific question that will either be answered accurat...

etudiant, I am just beginning to read the book, so my comments on the book are limited at the point. On the subject matter I have much to offer, including important questions that could be answered accurately, or left open. As to the actual measure of oil power available, the accurate measure, I can...

Hi, My name is Joe Kelley. I think that it is important to introduce myself at the beginning of this book discussion because of the importance of the topic and how I am involved in it. I have worked on this subject matter steadily for over a decade with some success; perhaps even more than some succ...

Offered for digestion is a concept called “Collective Intelligence” and “Group I.Q.”. As I read this chapter again I’m confronted again with many complicated thoughts that are seemingly unrelated so what I do is find a focal point from which to base my operations. My focal point is survival of the s...

Questions for Howard Bloom:

How will the book's success be accurately measured?

Is the goal realistically attainable?

I don’t necessarily think that political structures where manipulation is used for gain is unique to humans. seespotrun2008. My offering had to do with deceit, where the individual member of the species is employing deceit so as to gain at the expense of another individual member of the species. To...

I don't believe that is true. seespotrun2008, Thanks for the perspective, and I don't believe that the viewpoint is literally accurate. To say that bee's feel or that bee's can believe, on a level equal to human feelings and beliefs, is over the top. The elementary building blocks of feelings and b...

What’s repurposing? Hail, I’m commenting on Howard’s second chapter here, and to do so I’ve begun re-reading this chapter. I got as far as the first sentence, which is a question. When I read this the first time, it was as if the author spoke to me personally, like a friend who is sympathetic. I ha...