This week’s essay of the week is informed speculation on what went wrong with Deepwater Horizon. Read the comments (at least the replies by the author).
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What caused the 1000 point crash yesterday? View’s here and here.
Scary charts. But the future predicted in these charts will not happen because it can not happen. The world will change in radical ways long before 24% of the men in Japan are over 70 years old.
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We don’t really know anything. But we can still worry.
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Poem of the Week: 5/2/10-5/8/10
This week’s poem of the week is “The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less.”
Rant of the Week: 5/2/10-5/8/10
This week’s rant of the week is “The N Commandments.”
Essay of the Week: 5/2/10-5/8/10
This week’s essay of the week is “The Syria Temptation—and Why Obama Must Resist It.”
Invention
Here’s a cute little video that captures something of the allure of Legos–but of course it is not really the Legos that are so fertile. Paper, or indeed anything, can bear fruit from an unburdened imagination.
Lego “CL!CK” from a52 on Vimeo.
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Does the body make its own Morphine?
They may save Greece for a little while. But will they save Hungary?
Greeks fear their pensions will be cut in half. Would rather foreign banks take the hit.
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Harrisburg is not going to make it. So what do they think they are gaining by trying?
I hear Microsoft is in the market for one of these. Seriously, one should always doubt Russian hype. On the other hand, this type of set up makes a lot sense for a lot of people. If the Russian don’t really have the goods, somebody will someday.
The next thing that is going to dominate the headlines. Its tough to install a shut of valve under water.