The cube farm was invented as response to the problems of the open office.

Like I say in a post above, there needs to be a definition of "Open Office" at the beginning of a piece like TFA, because every architect I have ever encountered has labeled what you call "cube farms" as "Open Office" on the plans.

Working in an accounting open office is not the same as working on the factory floor or a sweat shop.

"I think Open Office" needs to be defined before everyone rails against them.
I've designed the mechanical systems for dozens, if not hundreds of what the architect labeled as "Open Office", but they almost always had workers in individual cubicles with partial height partitions at least as high as seated eye level. (Although in the call centers I've worked on, 4 workstations would be in a typical cubicle, but arranged so the workers faced away from each other.)

I've never worked in anything but an open office.
For 14 years I worked in a small office where 3 to 4 people shared a large open room without any partial height partitions - good for necessary collaboration and only distracting when my coworker decided to have somewhat off-topic conversations like complain about the boss.
The largest office I worked in (about 80 people) was without real cubicles, but the workspaces were well enough defined by low shelving, etc., that only my talkative immediate neighbor distracted me, and she was part-time.
Currently I work in a cubicle with about 7 ft high partitions, but glass on two sides. Again, it's a small office (7 to 8 people) but three of the people are in an area without partitions.
None of these situations were really detrimental to my ability to work, and they all encouraged asking and answering questions about the projects being worked on. E-mail seems more distracting to me than working in an open office (I can't seem to get the hang of ignoring it).

Most mammals can see color. They (except some primates) are colorblind in the sense that they can't tell the difference between red and green, but they can tell the difference between red and blue. Because of the similarites in the proteins expressed, it is believed that human ancestors inherited a mutated gene for red that had a peak receptivity at green together with the original red gene from another parent. That's why most people now have both red and green cones.

Wish I had funny mod points.

Finally, a commenter who gets it.
Except the terrible 2s terrible 4s part - they're nothing compared to the terrible teens. (or maybe pre-teens)

Yes there are children i.e. mellow children who don't need discipline and just explaining to them works. Then there are the rest who need to at least *see* discipline because they are spoiled little brats who only want to do what they want to do and to hell with everyone else.

All children need discipline, and the subjects of TFA don't disagree. You are confusing discipline and punishment, and it doesn't seem like the subjects of TFA are saying punishment must be avoided at all times. They doo seem to be saying that punishment coming from the person the child goes to for comfort is confusing to small children in a fundamental, brain-altering way.
That being said, TFA was pretty disjointed, often referring to things as if they were already explained when had not been mentioned before in the article, so how should I know what they were really trying to say.

What's actually needed is an engine to compress/expand the refrigerant. You can just as easily use a heat source to create the required pressure differential. RV refrigerators do exactly that, with no motors or moving parts. They cost an outrageous amount of money, despite being virtually identical in construction to electric ones

Not sure where you're coming from.
Combustion engine driven compressors are similar to electric motor driven ones, but are more complicated and certainly have plenty of moving parts.
Adsorption/absorption refrigeration systems have fewer moving parts, as they use heat as the main driving force and so don't have compressors. But they still have moving parts like pumps and fans, and they are completely dissimilar in design to mechanical compressor driven refrigeration.

Wait, I thought that Goddard did that.

Calculus is a good example, That's why everyone knows the name Newton more than three centuries after his death . . .

Then how come so few know the name Liebniz?

I've had plenty of clients requiring an NDA, and had no problem signing them. One employer I had wanted to me sign an updated employment agreement. I didn't mind the NDA portions of it, but there were some unappealing non-compete provisions, like whatever I did for myself on my own times was theirs. I quietly avoided signing it until my manager forgot about it and worked there for another few years.

Now compare the amount of money that the government makes at the pump, compared to what the oil companies make. You know, the guys who find, extract, move, refine and ultimately sell it to us. In the US the ratio is 7:1*; in Europe it's much worse.

First, "the guys who find, extract, move, refine and ultimately sell it to us" are typically several different companies, only the biggest companies have that kind of vertical integration, and they rely on third parties for a lot of those tasks, anyway. Second, show us the numbers.
*Citation Needed

The country ranking of per capita CO2 emissions that was linked seems highly correlated to the per capita economic output of the countries. By that measure, Denmark seems pretty low on emissions.

I think it has more to do with being light weight since birds fly.

RFTA

Yes, all that fetching and swapping is one of the reasons I shut down my laptop every night, otherwise my, admittedly under-resourced, work laptop slows to a crawl, especially when I'm doing a lot of multi-tasking.