More Madness.

Birds can do what scientists thought was impossible.

Mexico going down hill. More here.

An interesting argument that Japan’s growth rate is roughly comparable to the rest of developed world once you adjust for demographics.

The state argument in favor of furloughs.

A Superbug killer?

A sad day.

Its official.

Notice how many in the Assembly and the Senate consider this illegal but are going through with it anyway? It is just a sign of how comfortable they are with doing illegal things.

Shoot the messenger. The magazine says it is because of what he said on face book. But it seems to me that stating one’s bias up front is a good thing. I think the real problem for the magazine is that his position is not good for the industry.

Building cheap supercomputers out of video card chips.

The next atomic power?

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.

We don’t really know anything. But we can still worry.

The Crisis of Authority begins.

Furlough’s are coming for New York State workers.