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The Shale Oil "Miracle" Explained. Could it be Done Again?
An image from Louis Delannoy's thesis presentation at the INRIA in Grenoble on Sep 15, 2023. Louis (you see him at the bottom left of the picture…
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The Most Amazing Graph of the 21st Century: How the Empire is Striking Back!
I am reposting here a post I published last year on the old Seneca blog. More insights on this subject are going to come soon here. In 1956, Marion King…
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Renewables are not a cleaner caterpillar, they are a new butterfly. A Discussion with Dennis Meadows
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The Parallel Lives of Galileo Galilei and Sherlock Holmes
I recently wrote a comment in Italian on the recent novel "Oscura e Celeste" by Marco Malvaldi, a prolific author of investigative stories. I won't…
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The Suicide of the Valkyrie. The Story of Adolf Hitler's British Lover
Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (1914 –1948). This story is obviously fictional, but it is based on what we know of the weird story of this young British…
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Renewables are not a cleaner caterpillar, they are a new butterfly. A Discussion with Dennis Meadows
Dennis Meadows (left in the image) and Ugo Bardi in Berlin, 2016 A few days ago, I received a message from Dennis Meadows, one of the authors of the…
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What if Lemmings had a King? Practical Uses of Monarchy
Most people seem to think that kings and queens are little more than useless parasites. Yet, I think they could be useful in some circumstances…
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Is the Energy Transition Feasible? The Future as a Garden of Forking Paths
Is the Energy Transition Feasible? The Future as a Garden of Forking Paths
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The Rise of Elly Schlein: How a Young, Woke, and Fashionable Politician is Shaking up Politics in Italy, and Perhaps Worldwide
From “The Seneca Effect” Many times, Italy was a political laboratory that influenced the rest of the world. Just think of Mussolini and, more recently…
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When Science Fails: Surrogate endpoints and wrong conclusions
From “The Seneca Effect” Galileo Galilei and Anthony Fauci are linked to each other by a chain of events that started at the beginning of modern…
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The Seneca Effect
The Seneca Effect
Collapses are the way the universe gets rid of the old to leave space for the new. It was noted for the first time by the Roman Philosopher Lucius Anneaus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) and it is called today the "Seneca Effect."

The Seneca Effect

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