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Maryland Public Television star!
January 2017. Lead presenter. Talking about social entrepreneurship. Totally unrehearsed, unprepared. 700 views Feb 9, 2017 Peter...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 27, 20221 min read
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Hymn to the Fallen - John Williams
Musical score to accompany key video segments from an epic, iconic film and life lesson, "Saving Private Ryan." The closing scene --...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 26, 20222 min read
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Rules for business deans
Have a vision. Know your numbers. Maintain a sense of humor. These are the three 'rules' that characterized my approach to being a...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 18, 20223 min read
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Mother Nature can be a b*tch
Climate alarmists try to portray "Mother Nature" as a benevolent force, providing us with all the things we need to live a good and...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 17, 20221 min read
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Facts about climate, wealth and other important issues
October 12, 2022. Oldie but goodie, the sophistry of the 97% climate change lie. A good article that dispels myths about the erroneous...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 12, 20221 min read
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Following the science is whiteness
October 11, 2022. George Harrison sang, "Beware of darkness." According to the Smithsonian, it appears that we need to "Beware of...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 11, 20221 min read
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Fall 2022 potpourri
October 11, 2022. A random set of video clips, followed by a potpourri of random musings. "Jordan Peterson:- History is a rough...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 11, 20223 min read
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Reparations from the beginning of the slave trade supply chain
September 21, 2022. Don Lemon makes a fool of himself, (and here) trying to virtue signal, only to find that -- per Pogo -- he "has met...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 21, 20223 min read
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From poverty, slavery and an early death in two hundred years
Let's get real. Driven by fossil fuels, ingenuity and the American Dream, America has led the world from a life of miserable poverty for...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 17, 20222 min read
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Joy of senior year of college -- and what followed
Fifty years ago I was approaching my senior year in college, my fourth year on campus, my first year in my Hughes single room in the...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 6, 20225 min read
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Student loan debt: Background data
Here are some interesting links, graphics, data and some analysis of student college debt in America. None of it includes rational...

Peter Lorenzi
Aug 28, 20222 min read
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The joy of "When you are old"
"When you are old," recited by Cillian Murphy. Or, if you prefer, by Collin Farrell. Here is an effort to make sense of the words. "When...

Peter Lorenzi
Aug 27, 20222 min read
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"Quietly quitting" or simply, "working quietly"
August 23, 2022. Some old ideas get new labels and then a lot of attention for the superficial mainstream media, not just bloggers,...

Peter Lorenzi
Aug 23, 20223 min read
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The new school year
As my fourth fall outside the classroom -- following more than sixty years heading for the classroom each September -- I expect to make a...

Peter Lorenzi
Aug 22, 20223 min read
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The demographic diversity dilemma
On May 30, 2021, I opined on the common (mis)understanding of diversity and expressed how I would try to teach my students about...

Peter Lorenzi
Aug 12, 20222 min read
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The joy of -- and praise for -- fossil fuels
August 8, 2022. Perhaps it was my understanding of Karl Marx's theory as to the role of labor in the economy that started me thinking...

Peter Lorenzi
Aug 8, 20223 min read
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Climate fraud: Heat waves, forest fires, carbon emissions
Heat waves, forest fires, carbon. You name it. And a climate scientist has it wrong. Or as I might have said, "Great theory. Interesting...

Peter Lorenzi
Aug 7, 20221 min read
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Servant or slave?
This interesting theological treatise intrigues me, as it responds to a question that has arisen in my mind after the past two years of...

Peter Lorenzi
Aug 7, 20225 min read
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Growing glacier going unnoticed by NPR
Ten years ago, NPR posted an alarming claim that an iceberg "the size of Manhattan" had broken off from a glacier, leading them to ask a...

Peter Lorenzi
Aug 6, 20221 min read
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Climate bad boys
China, India and Russia -- three of the world's over 200 countries -- comprise half the world's population, and they were not present at...

Peter Lorenzi
Aug 3, 20222 min read
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