Bob Kalk
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Aug 26 2020
Lessons from Raccoon Mountain
Ever try throttling back a nuclear power plant? Yeah right! Failing that, what would you do with the excess capacity? Engineers with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) faced these same challenges in the late 1960s. Their solution was to build TVA’s largest hydroelectric facility on the top of a mountain. What??? No really, the top …
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Mar 17 2018
Remedy?
One thing is certain. When it comes to protecting our children, there are no easy answers. Sure, we could do a better job of flagging those that are correctly or incorrectly perceived as a danger to themselves and others. Although the powers that be would likely do so with the kind of coercive labeling that …
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Jan 23 2018
Celebrating Creation
“Gazing past the planets, looking for total view.” With this lyric from the popular sixties album To Our Children’s Children’s Children, a Moody Blues tribute band opens a unique celebration of creation spirituality with the Jubilee Community in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. It was on a warm night in late May last year, that Jubilee hosted …
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Aug 19 2017
Introducing Your Thesis Advisor
In November of 2008, the Lead Trustee for the soon to be established Aevia Charitable Trust (The ACT), gave a talk on the carryover from person to person, or from one generation to another, that permits us to stand on the shoulders of greatness. The talk included the following statement: “The scientific quest, the curiosity …
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Mar 24 2015
The Perversion of Islam (PoI)
When the U. S. President, the Senate Majority Leader, the Speaker of the House, military leaders, and other so-called security experts habitually reinforce the false claims of enemies, one has to question the reputations they enjoy for strategic thinking. The most striking example is the way an obvious Perversion of Islam (PoI) is routinely characterized …
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