21st Century Waves is a blog about technology booms and human expansion into the cosmos.
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May 2012: 2 articles
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April 2012: 3 articles
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March 2012: 5 articles
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February 2012: 6 articles
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January 2012: 3 articles
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December 2011: 4 articles
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November 2011: 4 articles
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October 2011: 4 articles
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August 2011: 5 articles
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- Sputnik-like Concerns About U.S. Education Linked to Economic Growth
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Monday, 7 May 2012
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- Serious concerns about the quality of the U.S. education system continue to grow. Recently (Wall Street Journal, 5/1/12), former Secretary of State George Shultz and his colleague at the Hoover Institution, Eric Hanushek, have emphasized the need ...
- Readers’ Favorite Posts — April, 2012
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Saturday, 5 May 2012
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- This is an updated end-of-April list of our readers’ favorite posts, based on the number of times each post was visited during the times indicated below.
- Did the New Space Age Begin This Week with Planetary Resources?
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Thursday, 26 April 2012
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- Planetary Resources (PR) finally announced their intent to create a “gold rush” to the asteroids, for both water and platinum group metals. The water will fuel an interplanetary highway and the precious metals will create prosperity on Earth.
- Fractal Maslow Windows and the Near-Term Colonization of Mars
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Sunday, 8 April 2012
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- Please Note: This is my Abstract for The 15th Annual International Mars Society Convention, August, 2012, in Pasadena, CA.
- Readers’ Favorite Posts — March, 2012
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Tuesday, 3 April 2012
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- This is an updated end-of-March list of our readers’ favorite posts, based on the number of times each post was visited during the times indicated below.
- James Cameron Becomes the World’s Deepest Human
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Monday, 26 March 2012
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- Yesterday famed filmaker James Cameron became the first human to go solo to the bottom of the Mariana Trench — 35,810 feet below sea level — the deepest place on the ocean floor.
- Kepler Update: Earth-like Planets are “Extremely Rare”
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Monday, 19 March 2012
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- Recently the Kepler Science Team released the results of the first 16 months of searching for Earth-like planets around nearby Sunlike stars. A statistical analysis by Space Daily (John Rehling, March 8,2012) suggests that Earth-like planets are ...
- State of the Wave: The Geopolitics of a Moon Base
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Monday, 12 March 2012
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- Ex-NASA executive Charles Miller’s recent (Wall Street Journal, 2/3/12) op-ed on returing to the Moon was particularly interesting for its explicit linkage to commercial space and national security.
- Bruce’s Article, “A New Apollo-Level Space Age” Appears in Ad Astra
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Saturday, 10 March 2012
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- Hope you enjoy my new article — “A New Apollo-Level Space Age” — which just appeared in Ad Astra, The Magazine of the National Space Society for Spring, 2012 (Volme 24, Number 1).
- Readers’ Favorite Posts — February, 2012
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Sunday, 4 March 2012
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- SPECIAL NOTE: Be sure to look for my new article in Ad Astra: “A New Apollo-Level Space Age.”
- Foreign Affairs Features The Case for Space
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Monday, 27 February 2012
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- The current issue of Foreign Affairs (March/April, 2012) featues “The Case for Space” by astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Hayden Planetarium in New York. In 2004 he was appointed by President Bush to the “Moon, Mars, and Beyond” Commission, so ...
- Glenn’s 1962 Flight Points to a New International Space Age
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Tuesday, 21 February 2012
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- Yesterday we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first American to orbit the Earth. On February 20, 1962, John Glenn carried the hopes of Americans with him as he did 3 revs, inspired the Australians in Perth to turn their lights on as he passed ...
- Are Stratfor’s “Generational Shifts” like “Falling Grains of Sand”?
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Monday, 13 February 2012
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- In their most interesting Annual Forecast for 2012, Stratfor.com has identified this year as a very special time that they call a “generational shift”:
- Bruce Joins Board of Editors for “Space and Evolution” Journal
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Saturday, 11 February 2012
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- It’s a pleasure to announce that I’m joining the Board of Editors of the journal Space and Evolution. Thanks for the invitation to David Christensen (formerly Lockheed Martin), George Robinson (formerly Smithsonian Institution), and Joerg-Henner ...
- Readers’ Favorite Posts — January, 2012
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Monday, 6 February 2012
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- SPECIAL NOTE: Be sure to look for my new article in Ad Astra this month: “A New Apollo-Level Space Age.”
- Is High Debt Triggering Another Pre-Maslow Recession?
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Saturday, 4 February 2012
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- The recent good news of a “January jobs thaw” (Wall Street Journal, 2/4/12) is dampened somewhat by U.S. national debt reaching ~100% of GDP — a definite signal of trouble ahead according the recent studies.
- State of the Wave: 10 Space Trends for 2012
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Tuesday, 10 January 2012
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- 2011 featured continuing economic difficulties and the retirement of the Space Shuttle, and followed most of the trends identified here last January ( “State of the Wave — 10 Space Trends for 2011“) as well as the expected directions sketched almost ...
- Is Earth Unique? What this “Benchmark Moment” Means for ETs and Our Future
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Thursday, 5 January 2012
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- Astronomer John Gribbin (Alone in the Universe; 2011) uses the latest astrophysics to make an impressive scientific case that we are alone in our Galaxy.
- Happy New Year and The Top 10 for 2011
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Sunday, 1 January 2012
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- PLEASE NOTE: This year’s “State of the Wave: 10 Space Trends for 2012″ will be appearing very soon! (See #9 below for 2011 trends.)
- Newton, Jupiter, and the 2012 Prophecies
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Wednesday, 28 December 2011
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- Last month the Los Angeles Times (J. Rubenstein; 11/6/11) was cackling about the fact that doomsday just never seems to come. You’d think — given the alternative — they’d be celebrating.
- Merry Christmas 2011
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Saturday, 24 December 2011
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- Completed in 1890, this watercolor shows an angel holding the Star of Bethlehem and the Adoration of the Magi shortly after the birth of Christ. This is based on the famous story in Matthew 2:1-12, NIV.
- Bruce Returns to “The Space Show” on January 10, 2012
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Thursday, 8 December 2011
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- It’s a pleasure to announce that I’m returning to The Space Show (www.thespaceshow.com) global internet live radio program, on the evening of Tuesday, January 10, 2012, from 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Pacific time.
- Readers’ Favorite Posts — November, 2011
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Monday, 5 December 2011
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- This is an updated end-of-November list of our readers’ favorite posts, based on the number of times each post was visited during the times indicated below. The lists below include both Daily Wavelet posts and State of the Wave posts.
- Is Obama a Victim of History? Democratic Pros Suggest He My Not Run
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Monday, 21 November 2011
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- In 1968 President Johnson took the moral high ground and, to reduce “partisan divisions”, declined to run for a 2nd term. Click
- State of the Wave: The Economy is Down but Space is Up
- Bruce Cordell · 21st Century Waves · Monday, 7 November 2011
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- As we approach the next transformative Maslow Window featuring a new international Space Age — expected mid-decade — it’s revealing to compare public perceptions of the economy, on which the space program depends, and the space program itself. In ...
