Ed Dowding

Month: February 2008

Life is better shared

Life is better shared. Rather, my life is so good it’s worth sharing. I’m not sure I want to share anyone else’s unless it’s at least as good.

We are the drones

An interesting Matrix-style thought experiment is presented in (yet another) great TED talk: what if we serve the plants? How does the world look then? The second part of the 17m speech talks about the virtues of Polyface farming. There are some incredible yields possible.

Sand beasts

Where art and engineering meet.

The Ancient Greek economy

On the other hand, ancient Greek values held in low esteem economic activities that were not subordinated to the traditional activities of managing the family farm and obtaining goods for necessary consumption. So-called banausic work, which included manufacturing, business, and trade (which were not tied to the land and the family farm), and what we ...

Love

Do you find conversations and thoughts about love are difficult? It’s often hard to work out exactly what we think about someone, and even harder to tell them. Much of this is down to the very limited vocabulary we use when talking about love. Any word that can apply to “chocolate mousse” and “the person ...