About: Daniel Berleant
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http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.daniel.j.berleant
62 posts by Daniel Berleant
- Accelerating Evolution, Part 3: Burgeoning Biosphere – August 7, 2012
- Accelerating Evolution, Part 2: How new species come to be – July 1, 2012
- Accelerating Evolution 1: the Prehistory of Earth – May 23, 2012
- Floating prairies of the sea could help solve global warming – March 17, 2012
- Beyond the outer limits: colonizing the cosmos – March 11, 2012
- PV will decentralize society. Will that reduce existential risk? – January 26, 2012
- Is meaningful communication with aliens possible? – January 22, 2012
- Are we alone in the universe? – January 21, 2012
- Sic transit hominum, or the transcent of man (part 5: recommendations) – December 21, 2011
- Sic transit hominum, or the transcent of man (part 4: ten million years) – December 12, 2011
- Sic transit hominum, or the transcent of man (part 3: a million years) – December 4, 2011
- Sic transit hominum: the transcent of man (Part 2…100,000 years) – November 23, 2011
- Sic transit hominum: the transcent of man (part 1…10,000 years) – November 19, 2011
- Waterboarding services for $100 – September 9, 2011
- Teeming Cities of Mars – June 30, 2011
- What it Means that an Hour’s Work Yields a Week’s Food (Part 2: live anywhere, work anywhere else) – March 4, 2011
- What it Means that an Hour’s Work Yields a Week’s Food (Part 1: productivity) – February 20, 2011
- Questions – February 9, 2011
- Recommendations: Asteroid Apocalypse, part 6 – February 2, 2011
- Asteroid Apocalypse (part 5, The Nemesis) – January 27, 2011
- Asteroid Apocalypse (part 4, impacts and probabilities) – January 17, 2011
- Asteroid Apocalypse (part 3 – big…and really big) – January 12, 2011
- Public comments invited: Asteroid Apocalypse (part 2, bigger than Tunguska) – January 4, 2011
- Asteroid Apocalypse (part 1: Tunguska) – December 28, 2010
- Cheaper Teaching, Faster Learning – November 3, 2010
- Topsy-Turvy: When the North and South Poles Switch – October 9, 2010
- New Plant Paradigms (Part X: Power Plants, Greening the Desert, Phyto-Terraforming, and Recommendations) – September 19, 2010
- New Plant Paradigms (Part IX: Back to Gold and Silver) – September 7, 2010
- New Plant Paradigms (Part IIX: Manufacturing Plants) – August 24, 2010
- Warm, Poison Planet – August 11, 2010
- New Plant Paradigms (Part VII: Plants with Mirror Molecules) – August 5, 2010
- New Plant Paradigms (Part VI: a Return to Roots) – July 25, 2010
- New Plant Paradigms (Part V: Alternamorphs — Plants With Options) – July 19, 2010
- New Plant Paradigms (Part IV: Black Salad) – July 16, 2010
- New Plant Paradigms (Part III: Giant Seeds Taste Better) – July 8, 2010
- New Plant Paradigms (Part II: When beans take over the world) – July 1, 2010
- New Plant Paradigms (Part I: Spore Storm) – June 27, 2010
- Wikiwikiwikipedia – June 19, 2010
- If the Universe As We Know it Ends, When Will it Happen? – May 28, 2010
- Space Empire: From Mercury to Pluto (Part 7: The Outer Limits) – May 16, 2010
- Space Empire: From Mercury to Pluto (Part 6: More Exotic Colonization Options) – May 6, 2010
- Space Empire: From Mercury to Pluto (Part 5: Half a Planet is Better than None) – April 16, 2010
- Space Empire: From Mercury to Pluto (Part 4: The Martians) – April 6, 2010
- Space Empire: From Mercury to Pluto (Part 3: The Moon — and Earth) – March 26, 2010
- Saving Daylight (in memory of daylight savings time, R.I.P.) – March 14, 2010
- Space Empire: From Mercury to Pluto (Part 2: Venus) – March 4, 2010
- Space Empire: From Mercury to Pluto (Part 1: Mercury) – February 12, 2010
- Chasing the Future: spoil sports of the prediction game #7 — Why care II…the “So what?” horizon – January 18, 2010
- Chasing the Future: spoil sports of the prediction game #6 — Why care I? Existential unmeaning, or why predict if it doesn’t matter? – January 1, 2010
- Chasing the Future: spoil sports of the prediction game #5 — External Perturbations – December 5, 2009
- Chasing the Future: spoil sports of the prediction game #4— The Butterfly Effect – November 17, 2009
- Chasing the Future: spoil sports of the prediction game #3— Quantum Tunneling – October 28, 2009
- Chasing the Future: spoil sports of the prediction game #2 — the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle – October 22, 2009
- Chasing the future: spoil sports of the prediction game #1 — the observer effect – October 9, 2009
- Tastes like the singularity, but less filling – August 9, 2009
- Get Ready for the Greenish Revolution – July 1, 2009
- Deconstructing Proliferants – February 24, 2009
- The Turbulence of Short-Term Thinking – February 8, 2009
- When genomes get cheap – January 13, 2009
- Smart pills’n such: cognitive enhancement is “easy” — but risky? – December 22, 2008
- Large Hadron Colliders and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – September 11, 2008
- Are mind reading computers a threat? – June 18, 2008





