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“Bureaucracies Run on Fear.” Mickey Glantz. September... “Bureaucracies Run on Fear”[caption id="attachment_1743" align="alignright" width="217" caption="My desk is bigger than yours: Size matters"] [/caption] Mickey Glantz September 9, 2010 Degrees of freedom for an individual to make decisions in an organization seem to increase as s/he moves upwards in a bureaucratic...

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You Don’t Have to be an Engineer to Understand Wind... Mary Jones, Guest Editorial Wind is a result of the uneven heating of the Earth by the sun and the fact that temperatures will always seek to reach an equilibrium (heat moves to a cooler area). With the rising price of energy and the destruction of the environment from non-renewable fuels, it is increasingly important...

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“I’m not 24 anymore: Up Close and Personal” ... Perhaps this is just a 70 year-old’s lament: alas, he’s not 24 anymore. For those of us at this end of the age spectrum, even for those who are still pretty energetic, there is an on-going conflict between mind and body. As always, the body sets the physical limits on what we can do on a sustainable basis, one-off activities...

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GUEST EDITORIAL: Spain’s Climate Challenge: A brief... For many people in the World, Spain brings to mind a sunny warm country with beaches along the Mediterranean Coast, with excellent food, friendly people and “Fiestas” with brave bulls. They might also think of Pamplona and the “running of the bulls” on narrow streets filled with young people. It is like talking...

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A few centuries of US-Mexico interactions: Going Full... Some months ago I came across a high school world history book (Human Achievement, 1967 by M.B. Petrovich and P.D. Curtin). It was a typical history book in that it began with discussions of the Egyptian, Roman and the Greek civilizations and ending up with the state of the globe in the post World War II era. It was filled...

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