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A Personal Account by Kirby Urner First Posted: Oct 3, 1997 Last Revised: Feb 9, 2010 The Oregon Math Summit, held on October 2nd, 1997, at Oregon State University in Corvallis, was certainly a valuable learning experience for me. I took an active role, as a presenter of course, but also as the guy with [ ]
United States of America Operating System So does the Grunch mean the noble ideals of Freedom and Democracy, fundamental to the rhetoric of USA institutions, are destined to fade away? Humanity cannot afford this option. An army of literally soulless corporations, endowed with immortality, human rights, and the power to limit the liability of their [ ]
GRUNCH Never before in all history have the inequities and the momentums of unthinking money-power been more glaringly evident to so vastly large a number of now literate, competent, and constructively thinking all-around-the-world humans. There s a soon-to-occur critical-mass moment when the intuition of the responsibly inspired majority of humanity, in contradistinction to the angered Luddites […
Angle vs. Frequency Shape is defined by angles irrespective of scale. A regular tetrahedron has unchanging surface and central angles regardless of its size and so for any object, no matter how complex. This angular aspect of experience links metaphorically to the idea of eternal principles. The ideally angular is only fleetingly grasped through [ ]
Letter from Kiyoshi Kuromiya, Oct 9, 1994, Fuller s adjuvant on Critical Path, Editor of the posthumous Cosmography, to Mitch C. Amiano, participant on Geodesic list (used with permission) Dear Mitch: I was at EPCOT in Orlando, Florida, earlier today. I was attending/meetings nearby. The Geosphere ride called Spaceship Earth was closed. The sign read: Spaceship [ ]
Synergetics takes up the subject of spheres packed tightly together. Mathematicians have not yet reached consensus on a proof that a Barlow packing, including the face-centered cubic (fcc) and hexagonal (hcp) is actually the densest possible, although Gauss proved the fcc s density of approximately 0.74 optimal for a lattice (any denser arrangement would have to [ ]
Climaxing Bell s architectural experiments with tetrahedral structures was an observation tower at Beinn Bhreagh, his summer estate near Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Each unit for this tower consisted of six 4-foot pieces of ordinary galvanized iron pipe and four connecting nuts; the units, themselves, were riveted together in the field by unskilled labor. Upon its completion [ ]
Version 1.1, October 1996 by Kirby Urner General systems theory begins with Earth as the microeconomic client of an energy-grant source, the Sun. Given that solar energy grants are not interest-bearing notes, the client economy is off the hook as far as submitting a repayments schedule, is really more akin to a not-for-profit in receipt [ ]
by Kirby Urner First shared via wholesys-l, an email discussion list, June 30, 1995, responding to a thread suggesting We the People launch a new round of Federalist Papers. Last modified (slightly): April 20, 2000. I find any talk of The Federalist Papers Part II uncomfortably removed from the fact of some two hundred years [ ]
Version 1.16 by Kirby Urner Table of Contents Asset: Our Sponsoring Sun Liability: Our Broken Economy Net Worth: The Role of Intelligence The Alchemy of Language The Meaning of Intelligence Real Security: a Curriculum Concern GST: Ending the Economists Monopoly GST Graphics with Explanatory Text Asset: Our Sponsoring Sun Entering line items onto the planetary [ ]