Having rewatched the great Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, it reminded me that airship tech has really gotten far better than… uhhh… hydrogen. But I’m waiting, and what I’m seeing makes me think the Cruise Ship of the Sky could not only be amazing, but also not as totally gross as Cruise Ships.  These…

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SUPPLY AND DEMAND So, I am not all giddy about the value of the book because I understand most of those values are unchanging store fronts that don’t care if they ever sell the book, so it’s a manufactured or somewhat arbitrary evaluation. And I looked at sold copies on ebay, and there haven’t been…

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Global Warming and Over-Tourism.

From a recent large scientific report from the National Academy of Sciences: The next decade may decide humanity’s fate: “[S]elf-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth toward a planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabilization of the climate & cause continued warming on a Hothouse Earth pathway even as human emissions are reduced” — Alex…

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I was just talking to my favorite hotel technology company. I’ve worked with them for almost a decade, and I appreciate them. They aren’t snake oil, they don’t assume they know the business better than hotel people, and they are changing the game. I won’t name them, but feel free to ask. They’re basically indispensable,…

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