The Pragmatic Idealist

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of their folly is to fill the world with fools." - Herbert Spencer With Cash and Pressure, China Builds its Chip Industry   CDC Ebola Guidelines Not Good Enough for Some States   Solar Power to Rival Fossil Fuel in Cost by 2016   The World's Largest Hot Air Balloon Festival is Breathtakingly Epic

"The only thing safe is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows what you are hoping when you embark." - Mike Nichols Perpetual Peace - Are Democracies Less Warlike?   Seeking Unity, U.S. Revises Ebola Monitoring Rules   The Dangers of Quarantines   Directing Planes by Remote Control

"Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder" - Nikita Khruschev Advanced 7 Minute Workout   Officials Tracing New York Ebola Patient's Movements   Royals/Giants Preview (A Bit Late)   Chocolate Shown to Aid Memory   Dyson's Amazing Catch

"In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead." - Benjamin Franklin The Cost of Campaigns   Paralyzed Man Walks Again After Cell Transplant   25 Years Ago, NASA Envisioned its own Orient Express   Center to Develop Second Generation of Surgical Robots

ALDS Game 3: Cain Back to Back Catches ALCS Game 1: Gordon's Go Ahead Home Run ALCS Game 2: Cain's Great Catch ALCS Game 3: Moustakas Catch Falling into Dugout ALCS Game 4: Royals' Great Defense Clinch, Celebration

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding." - Louis D. Brandeis Swedish Navy Searches for Source of Underwater Signals   For South Korea, Host of League of Legends Championship, E-Sports are a National Pastime   To Give and to Receive - A Dominant Catchers' World Series   The Survivor's Guide to Beating the Kansas City Royals' Ultimate Outfield   When Uber and AirBnB meet the Real World

"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby   Denny Matthews Radio Call as Royals Clinch ALCS The World Series Bound Royals have Transformed KC's Sports Identity The Greatest Defensive Outfield in History Why the Kansas City Royals are Irresistible Experts Oppose Ebola Travel Ban

Rany - Halfway to Eden (From 10/12) Google Using Street View Camel Uber Flunks Better Business Bureau Test Royals Fan Paul Rudd Invites Everyone to his Mom's House With New Ebola Case Confirmed, New Failures Emerge

"Your strength as a rationalist it to be more confused by fiction than reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge." - Eliezer Yudkowski These Royals are Eager to Include Their Fans in the Celebration Must See Cain Catches Royals Advance to ALCS ALCS Spot The Great Wage Slowdown of the 21st Century

"The height of your achievements is determined by the depth of your self belief, the strength of your resolve and the intensity of your efforts." - Roopleen   HP is Said to be Planning a Split of its Businesses Royals Sweep Their Way to ALCS Date with O's In Sweep, Royals Show they are more than Just Speed Technology Takes the Wheel Court Hands Gay Marriage a Tacit Victory

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep" - Scott Adams KC Masterpiece More Rany Warning Renews Zeal of Protesters in Hong Kong The Exceptions Rule in October, for the Most Part Tesla's "Something Else" is Reportedly Automated Driving

"There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens." - Tommy Lasorda Lamborghini Asterion - 910hp Hybrid 270 MPH Sikorsky Raider is the Batmobile of the Skies Brandon Finnegan may Change Royals' Fortunes Delay in Dallas Ebola Cleanup as Workers Balk at Task Hong Kong Leader Offers Talks