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November 19, 2019

Welcome to our fourth post!

The pair of us have lots of disparate interests and ideas, and we have struggled for years to figure out a way to pursue them all productively. The pseudo-blog format we’ve set up here may just be the ticket, so we’ll see where it takes us. Each posting will be a triptych of topics chosen from the various central themes in our Clutterbox. Hopefully you’ll find something that interests you!

A few notes: First, we’re grown men, and the realities of making a living will limit the pace at which we’re able to post up new material. We’ll shoot for every two months or so. Second, you are welcome to comment on whatever we present, but we request/require that you do so respectfully. Third, we like words here, and we use some in the spirit of Humpty Dumpty. By “Informal Olio,” for example, we mean “miscellany that is both congenial and informative.”

A Brief Primer on Anthropogenic Climate Change

Human industry has drastically altered the GHG (greenhouse gas) profile of Earth’s atmosphere – primarily through the burning of fossil fuels, secondarily through agriculture, and tertiarily through positive feedbacks of the Earth system to these inputs.

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Systems Theory Part 2

Systems theory focuses on the interconnectedness of elements within some environment. Iterative interactions between these elements, which are themselves systems, give rise to emergent properties that comprise relationships rather than things. Part 2 of this topic develops the connection between experience, thought and socialization.

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Generations Update 2019

I’ve added a great deal to the Generations table I posted up in 2018, so I thought I’d post up an updated version with some addendum comments. The new table reaches back to the Republican Generation (b. 1742-1766), which grew up during the Boston Tea Party, the American Revolutionary War, and the Declaration of Independence.

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