Category Archives: Knowledge
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In case you have not already heard, no furloughs for now.
It all went a lot better than a fire + aceylene has any right too.
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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.
Essay of the Week: 5/9/10-5/15/10
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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Ooooo! Great Job!!
Most of this article is excessively obvious “discoveries” about the ill effects of unbalanced praise on kids. It is more satisfying to read the last portion where the still obvious, but very important, aspect of self-gratification is mentioned.
H/T: Schlock Mercenary
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.”
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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.