What's wrong with "cherry picking"?
Yowza. This is Jerry Pournelle on education and ”cherry picking”.
On education, the usual critique of charter schools is that they are guilty of ”cherry picking” which is to say, they accept only students who want to learn something and are willing to be disciplined. Thus an academically accomplished charter school in DC was …
(Nearly) Unlimited Energy?
This weekend, while in Minneapolis, I started reading Jerry Pournelle’s 1979 book, A Step Farther Out. I was reading it on my Kindle, natch.
In the first chapter, Jerry advocates a form of energy production known as the Ocean Thermal System (OTS).
It is an Earth-based solar power system, and the concept is simple enough. …