A new pedagogy on Energy-Flux-Density by the Basement team will bring a new insight into the U.S. Constitutional principle.

In this installment of the Basement Mail Bag, host Ed Hamler and Basement member Jason Ross answer questions that were e-mailed from our national and international audience. This week features questions based on Ross' two latest videos Riemann II(a): Potential and Metaphor and Riemann II(b): Abelian Functions, on the important role that metaphor plays in illustrating concepts of science and economics.

The Apollo mission was estimated to have had a $14 return for every $1 invested. But were they the same dollars? The incommensurable jumps in economics defy normal accounting methods, and Riemann's work on Abelian functions provide an insight into how such leaps can be conceptualized as the substance of economy, rather than as exceptions.

After a strategic report from Matthew Ogden, as an introduction to this live, International webcast, Sky Shields presents physical economics policy and discusses how the development of the Arctic stands as a choice for humanity, to break from the threat of thermonuclear extinction under Obama.

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This morning Lyndon LaRouche discussed the imminent potential for a British-sponsored World War III. The Middle East is the new Balkans in this context, where that trigger point has been carefully set up, and as the fuse is burning down on the financial resources to carry out that operation, the time for that operation to be launched, or defeated, is now.

What gets wetter the more it dries? Riddles can help illustrate an important concept for economics and science: the use of metaphor to convey ideas that cannot be stated explicitly. Here, Riemann's use potential theory and Dirichlet's Principle clarify the role of metaphor in language, and the nature of discoveries.