2008 Year In Review: 2,050 Pages
Jan 01: George Washington Carver In The 21st Century
Jan 02: An UDE - Or Not An UDE: That Is A Question
Jan 03: The Privatization Of (Logical) Trees
Jan 04: The Highway System
Jan 05: A Happy New Year: A Logical-Haiku
Jan 06: Law Enforcement And Racial Profiling
Jan 07: My "Feynman-Test": Do Something.
Jan 08: Mary Poppins And System's Improvement
Jan 09: The Shortcut Dilemma
Jan 10: The Visual Display Of Information
Jan 11: Arthur C. Clark: Envisioning A Geosynchronous Orbiting System
Jan 12: In Search Of A Rational Penal System
Jan 13: The Aurora
Jan 14: In Search Of Simplicity
Jan 15: Anomalies
Jan 16: The Ant And The Grasshopper
Jan 17: Black Holes, Strange Attractors, And Basketball
Jan 18: Music And Meaning
Jan 19: The Moral Meaning Of Chess
Jan 20: The Poetry Of The Automatic Garage
Jan 21: To Hit Or Not To Hit? That Is My Question
Jan 22: The Logic Of Quadrilaterals
Jan 23: Is A Puzzlement!
Jan 24: Julia Sets, Fractals, And Thinking Processes
Jan 25: Architects Of Their Own Future
Jan 26: The Goal Of Education
Jan 27: Why Can't We Be Friends
Jan 28: The Dustbowl, The Caveman, And Galloping Gertie
Jan 29: Presidents Through The Ages
Jan 30: The Caveman And Chaos Theory
Jan 31: Math Formulas And Frigid Weather
Feb 01: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapters 3 & 4
Feb 02: Caught in a Timeless Dilemma
Feb 03: The Super Bowl, Roman Numerals, and Cognitive Development
Feb 04: A Preference to Apathy over Ignorance
Feb 05: Reality, to be Conquered, Must be Obeyed!
Feb 06: Economic Fallacies and Uneaten Cakes
Feb 07: Flavors of the Month all Taste the Same (when they're still in their wrappers)
Feb 08: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapters 5 & 6
Feb 09: The Quadrilateral Jamboree
Feb 10: Iterative Effect-Cause-Effect Logic and the Context Syllogism
Feb 11: The Dénouement-Detective (untying the knot)
Feb 12: First-Hand-Accounting
Feb 13: Visual Vocabulary
Feb 14: The Ultimate Occupational Dilemma
Feb 15: Chronologic Basketball
Feb 16: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapters 7 & 8
Feb 17: The Simultaneous Nature of the Predicted Yet Unintended
Feb 18: Systems Theory, the Federal Reserve, and the Fuzzy Cognitive Map
Feb 19: Coal and Electricity
Feb 20: The Highest Office
Feb 21: A School Bus Tragedy
Feb 22: The Arete of Line Designs
Feb 23: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapters 9 & 10
Feb 24: A Lunar Light Show
Feb 25: A Foreign-Language Wish-List
Feb 26: How NOT To Argue Regarding HealthCare
Feb 27: Iatosthenes' Revenge
Feb 28: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapter 11
Feb 29: In Honor of Leap Year
Mar 01: Robert Frost, Mending Wall, and Poetry
Mar 02: The Supreme Count - Visually - Through the Year
Mar 03: The Sub-Prime Fiasco
Mar 04: An American Grammar
Mar 05: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapter 12
Mar 06: Our Own Writing System
Mar 07: The Origins of Logical Haiku
Mar 08: A Letter to the Philamath Society Regarding Morris Kline
Mar 09: Challenging Intuition Directly
Mar 10: Rivers and Dams
Mar 11: In Search of Simplicity
Mar 12: The Simplest Equation in the World: The Mandelbrot Set
Mar 13: Understanding Shakespeare and Hamlet
Mar 14: Integrity
Mar 15: The Incredible Bread Machine
Mar 16: Three Layers of Causality
Mar 17: A Good Man: Lew Anderson: Part 1
Mar 18: Good Intentions Gone Bad
Mar 19: Cars, Trains, and Systems
Mar 20: The Federal Reserve, the DJIA, and the Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Mar 21: Rethinking Pi-Day
Mar 22: POLITE DISCUSSION
Mar 23: Candy Cane Pipes "about town"
Mar 24: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapter 13
Mar 25: Counter-Intuition: Revisiting the TOC P-Q Game
Mar 26: O Captain! My Captain! and the Metaphor
Mar 27: Strangers in the Night
Mar 28: No Season Better: Sports Forensics
Mar 29: Sediment Revisited
Mar 30: Prime Numbers from a "Manipulative" Perspective
Mar 31: Why I Could / Would Never Go Back to School
Apr 01: The Incomparable Chuck Jones
Apr 02: The Interests of the One - The Interests of the Many
Apr 03: The ACT: A Conversation with Myself
Apr 04: The Quadratic Stream
Apr 05: The Aluminum Bat
Apr 06: Deal or No Deal
Apr 07: LOGICIONARY-1
Apr 08: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapter 14
Apr 09: Questions I Get
Apr 10: Turkey Dinners and Steering Wheels
Apr 11: In Search of The Missing Yard
Apr 12: Logical Thinking
Apr 13: To Have a Neighbor, You've Got to be a Neighbor
Apr 14: Visualizing Prime Numbers
Apr 15: The Main Way in Education
Apr 16: Hypocrisy in Action
Apr 17: The Olathe School System - Visually
Apr 18: The Case of the Submerged Theory
Apr 19: Fall, Water: Just Don't Fall on Me
Apr 20: The Time for Proper Action
Apr 21: I Declare April "System A" Month
Apr 22: Communication Breakdown: Part I
Apr 23: The Politics of "Interest"
Apr 24: If I Were a Blossom
Apr 25: Center Pivot Irrigation
Apr 26: These are a Few of My Favorite Things
Apr 27: Digital Turkish Rugs
Apr 28: Aunt Polly and the Get-Back Plan
Apr 29: Communication Breakdown: Part II
Apr 30: A Few Degrees of Separation
May 01: Z←Z2 + c
May 02: Plus or Minus
May 03: Energy for the 21st Century +
May 04: Rabbit Seasoning, Eclipses, and Thales
May 05: Celebrating Cinco de Mayo properly
May 06: 2-Dimensional Cellular Automata
May 07: CHOICE
May 08: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapter 15
May 09: Recommended Changes to NCAA Basketball
May 10: Let's Begin with Level Flight
May 11: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapter 16
May 12: Spherical Graphics in Excel
May 13: Oil and Gas
May 14: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapter 17
May 15: Iatosthenes' Revenge (part 2)
May 16: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapters 18 and 19
May 17: Visual Remainders: Pascal and the Mod Squad
May 18: Three Haikus
May 19: To Kalon!
May 20: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapter 20
May 21: Euclid and His Prime Numbers
May 22: America's "Forgotten War"
May 23: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapter 22
May 24: The Viability of the Computational Universe?
May 25: The "Class 3" Aberration
May 26: An "Alfred Nobel" Siting - in Nebraska / 2008
May 27: Function Maximums and Minimums
May 28: EUCLID ALONE?
May 29: Spherical Cellular Automata
May 30: The Infield Fly Rule
May 31: Architects of Their Own Future: Chapter 20
JUNE REORGANIZATION / REVIEW MONTH
July 01: Beyond the Second Amendment
July 02: Beyond Our Borders
July 03: An Inevitable Crisis
July 04: The Simultaneous Nature of the Predicted Yet Unintended
July 05: Battle Fatigue
July 06: Social Engineering
July 07: The International Community and Africa
July 08: On Open Letter to Dennis Moore
July 09: A Clarion Call For Even-Ness
July 10: The Logical Educational Extension
July 11: Law Enforcement and Racial Profiling
July 12: Honesty: Consistency Between Words and Actions
July 13: The Power of the Mind
July 14: Plus Or Minus
July 15: Be Careful What You Wish For
July 16: The Nature of "Bias" In Reporting
July 17: The Incredible Bread Machine
July 18: Airbag Deployment
July 19: Theological Cake
July 20: The Logic of Light Rail
July 21: Youth and Athletics
July 22: A Protection Racket
July 23: The Visual Display of Information
July 24: Kelo Revisited
July 25: If You Call A Tail A Leg ...
July 26: Advanced Placement - Reconsidered
July 27: The Educational Musical
July 28: The Danger of Awards
July 29: Why Don't We Vote ...
July 30: The Real Source of Inflation
July 31: The World As It Can Be - As It Ought to Be
August 01: The Proximate Event (Chapters 1 and 2)
August 02: NUMB3RS
August 03: The Proximate Event (Chapter 3)
August 04: Career Wins
August 05: Rethinking Baseball Strategy
August 06: The History of Paved Roads
August 07: What to do - oh, What to do!
August 08: Algorithmic Botany
August 09: Houston, We Have A Problem
August 10: NBA Basketball and The Matrix
August 11: The Shadow I Cast
August 12: Architects of Their Own Future: An Introduction
August 13: The Geometry of the Game
August 14: The World's Greatest Athlete
August 15: The Proximate Event (Chapter 4)
August 16: A Random Road Normally Traveled
August 17: Midwest NKS Conference Abstract
August 18: From Leonidas To Phelps
August 19: Eccentricity
August 20: Flying High
August 21: GIVE 'EM HELL!
August 22: The Montessori Method
August 23: The Olympics Come To A Close
August 24: My Random Walk
August 25: The Proximate Event (Chapter 4: Part 2)
August 26: Brother, Can You Spare a Token
August 27: The Proximate Event (Chapter 5: Part 1)
August 28: The Santa Fe Trail
August 29: The Santa Fe Trail
August 30: Low Hanging Fruit
August 31: The Proximate Event (Chapter 5: Part 2)
September 01: Right Around the Corner
September 02: The Santa Fe Trail (Part 3)
September 03: The Proximate Event (Chapter 6)
September 04: Proper Context
September 05: The Proximate Event (Chapter 11)
September 06: In Search of the Greatest Baseball Achievement
September 07: The Louisiana Purchase
September 08: Polygons, Circles, and Playing Around
September 09: The Star Spangled Banner (revisited)
September 10: The Proximate Event (Chapter 7)
September 11: The Santa Fe Trail (Part 4)
September 12: The Proximate Event (Chapter 10)
September 13: Morris Kline: A Commemorative Stamp Campaign
September 14: The Proximate Event (Chapter 8)
September 15: Conduction: A Natural Integration of Induction & Deduction
September 16: Weather War
September 17: The Santa Fe Trail (Part 5)
September 18: The Moral Meaning of Money
September 19: A Letter to Olathe Police Chief Janet Thiessen
September 20: Lissajous Figures
September 21: The Magnificent Tower Crane
September 22: Fall Season - Just Don't Fall on Me!
September 23: A Drunken Random Walk
September 24: The Proximate Event: Writing the Book
September 25: Common Language
September 26: The Spectacular Stradivirius
September 27: Paul Newman: RIP
September 28: The Practice of Polygony
September 29: Warning the Rulers from Time to Time
September 30: Connecting the Dots
October 01: The Fractal Phenomenon
October 02: My Line Design Black Hole
October 03: The Louisiana Purchase: A Brief History
October 04: A Logical Haiku Invitation
October 05: Ideas Have Consequences
October 06: A Moratorium on Prices
October 07: Intellectual Flotsam and Jetsam
October 08: Of Value to Whom - and For What?
October 09: An Early Halloween
October 10: A First Hand Look at the Santa Fe Trail
October 11: Bankruptcy - of a Moral Kind
October 12: A Growing World
October 13: Columbus in Context
October 14: The Story of An Athletic Asterisk
October 15: A Bilge Bay Reservation
October 16: Robin Hood - as he Was - and As He's Remembered
October 17: The Geometric Mind
October 18: Somebody Do Somethin'!
October 19: I'll Meet'Cha Halfway
October 20: Public Seating
October 21: No Taxation - EVEN WITH Representation!
October 22: A General State of Dissatisfaction
October 23: Chloro-phyll-osophic
October 24: It May be Mere Face Paint to You
October 25: Zooming in to See a Picture of Yourself
October 26: Revisiting "The Fairness Doctrine"
October 27: 53 - 47
October 28: The Lattice Method of Multiplication
October 29: Off To Indiana
October 30: Sampling the Computational World of "Turkish-Rug" Skylights.
October 31: The Presidential Vote Over Time
NOVEMBER REORGANIZATION / REVIEW MONTH
December 01: Let it Snow!
December 02: When the Bough Breaks: Part I
December 03: The Geometric Mind: II (Chapter 1)
December 04: An Introduction to the Syllogistic Dictionary
December 05: When the Bough Breaks: Part II
December 06: The Geometric Mind: II (Chapter 2)
December 07: Bingo
December 08: When the Bough Breaks: Part III
December 09: The Geometric Mind: II (Tentative Chapter 3)
December 10: Ominous Parallels
December 11: The NBA Draft
December 12: The Geometric Mind: II (Tentative Chapter 4)
December 13: The Greatest
December 14: The Geometric Mind: II (Tentative Chapter 5)
December 15: Bending the Twig
December 16: Second Wind
December 17: Second Wind: Finishing Up Part I
December 18: Second Wind: Part II
December 19: Second Wind: The Denouement
December 20: The Geometric Mind: Part II
December 21: Goals for 2009
December 22: The Geometric Mind: Part II (next chapter)
December 23: The Geometric Mind: Part II (next chapter)
December 24: Global Haiku
December 25: The Fractal Nature of Reality
December 26: On The Brink of ...
December 27: The Geometric Mind: Part III
December 28: A History of the Thermometer
December 29: Enough is Enough
December 30: The Geometric Mind: Part III
December 31: The Year in Review