embodiedspace
Blog URL http://embodiedspace.blogspot.com
Located Ocean Springs, Mississippi USA
Tags geography, poetry, current events, world affairs, cartography, foreign policy, politics, social sciences, maps
This site ranges from geography, cartography, and foreign policy to poetry and creative writing.
Latest Blog Posts
- BUBBLEMAKERS INHERIT THE EARTH on Nov 13, 2009 in economics taxes economy
Seems clear that economic growth in the U.S. was highest, prosperity more widespread, and the middle class more secure when the top marginal tax rate was at its highest (up to 92%) during the post-war period, 1946-1963. After Reagan slashed the margi...
- TALKING HEADS on Nov 12, 2009 in Zen temple Japan
In Japan, I have experienced school-girl groups with their query-the-foreigner English assignments at Zen temples when all I wanted was to focus on my self-inititated talk-to-inner-buddha assignment. Instead, I realized that the gaggle of school girl...
- MINDING THE MULTITASKING on Nov 11, 2009 in Minding awareness
Today was another Korean boy-band day (e.g., see Super Junior) here at my residence, as my school on the Mississippi Gulf Coast took a storm day and daughter Sanjina, already here from yesternight, stayed on my 'puter all day watching music videos an...
- ANCIENT CLIMATE CHANGE AND CIVILIZATION on Nov 5, 2009 in climate change
North Africa underwent massive climate changes in the 4th and early 3rd millennia BCE as result of natural climate change. It had been a region of savanna land--scattered trees and grasses and some flowing rivers--much like those Sahelian areas to th...
- EINSTEIN AND THE ENDS OF REALITY on Nov 5, 2009 in spirtuality religion Einstein
In interest of full discussion of Albert Einstein, the complex person and his beliefs concerning religion, one must consider the famous letter, written by his hand in 1954 a year before he died, and auctioned last May 2008, in which he said some thin...
- GLOBAL COOLING AND ICED TEA (PARTY) on Nov 1, 2009 in global cooling global warming global-warming deniers
I explain the supposed global cooling since 1998 by saying it did not happen. It is bogus use of data.The present decade has been the warmest in modern recorded history. Every year this century has been warmer than any year before 1998.The claim that...
- PEAK OIL, DE-GLOBALIZATION, AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECT on Oct 26, 2009 in global warming de-globalization China global climate change neighborhood effect globalization
I believe the Chinese have a valid point in their claiming that they have become the world's workshop (capital easily relocates to take advantage of cheaper inputs) and thus pollute. In essence, the US has exported pollution, by shifting industries a...
