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This COP28 leadership is not surprising, after Kerry at COP27 was pro fossil fuel in the US position. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/16/cop28-john-kerry-backs-uae-appointment-oil-chief

When I grow up I want to play my Strat like Jeff Beck… I suspect there’s no hope of that, but I’m very glad he inspired me since I was a teenager, and sad at his passing.

Carver Mead is very slowly building up his reputation debunking conventional physics wisdom taught today. This discussion he does on YouTube about Mead’s Collective Electrodynamics and John Cramer’s Transactional Quantum Theory is great. I have to say this though, the mainstream Theoretical Physicists continue to object to both Mead and Kramer’s view of quantum electrodynamics,…

Put peer review out of its misery, ASAP Dave Taht shared this great piece with me. The Rise and Fall of Peer Review. It needs to be shared widely. 50 years after my bachelor’s degree now, I’ve looked at peer review from all sides, and I completely agree. There’s no fix. I publish (make public)…

I’m joining the Fediverse. At first, via my main public site. The name here is @dpreed@deepplum.com and it is a WordPress site using ActivityPub plugin.

As I wonder what can be done about the messes we humans keep suffering rather than fixing them, occasionally I have an idea that others don’t seem to have thought about. Here’s one. Centralization of power grows as unequal power structures are accepted and tolerated. Though we use “monopoly” to describe them, monopoly presumes that…

It’s been a long while since I’ve posted new content. Frankly, I find myself focusing on “conversations” in Facebook and email, though both of those are poor substitutes for thinking and writing about complex ideas. So I’m back to posting here to see if this medium can remain alive. I may put pointers on FB…

Bob Frankston suggested I post some of my recent remarks and references to Orbital Angular Momentum and its potential value in increasing the capacity of “spectrum” (the word I think misleads everyone, but that’s a subject I’ve talked about a lot). So I did put up a brief page here, with some references also. I…

What do we teach when we teach science in school? And really, why do we teach science that way? I’ve personally never been quite sure whether I’m more of a scientist, engineer, or mathematician. The public lumps these all together for some reason, perhaps because they all appear to deal with concepts that are expressed…

Due to a complex double failure, old posts were lost about 9 months ago, and while I’ve reconstructed a couple from network caches, I’ve given up on efforts to reconstruct old blog entries from remnants. However, I will be posting new material, largely focused on ideas I’m exploring outside of “work” (I’m now at SAP),…