The Wave Chapter 62: Secret Games at Princeton

by | Feb 12, 2012 | The Wave Volume 7

Let’s now talk about Game Theory. I don’t profess to be an expert, and I have to admit some difficulty in dealing with the “jargon,” but after wading through a number of texts on the subject, I have enough of a grasp to realize just how these ideas are being used on...

The Wave Chapter 58: Alien Reaction Machines

by | Feb 3, 2012 | The Wave Volume 7

We come now to a subject of immense importance: Psychopaths as “alien reaction machines,” which directly relates to what we have all been learning from the activities of Frank Scott, Vincent Bridges and others we will meet as the series progresses. As noted in the...

The Wave Chapter 57: It’s Just Economics

by | Jan 30, 2012 | The Wave Volume 7

Until recently, impacts by extraterrestrial bodies were regarded as, perhaps, an interesting but certainly not important phenomenon in the spectrum of geological processes affecting the Earth. This has only been the case since Lyell, Laplace and Newton put a period to...