How Late Blight came to be such a disaster and other things you might want to know.
Relatively harmless right now. But wait until the cost of health really starts to bring down the government. Then this foot in the door will be expanded.
I thought this was a great explanation of what a car’s differential is and how it works.
via videosift.com
Old News. But don’t miss the part on the end about raising fuel taxes. No tax like a regressive tax.
Not just the Chinese. It is also one of the reasons that banks are not lending to other people.
Most of you already saw this on Bit’er Pitter. But those that did not should not miss it.
Some sad news. At least for the nerds amongst us, there was no better source of hard data and, for that, almost any opinion he had could be tolerated.
Can the man do nothing right? You would think it would be in his own best interest to get this one right.
Who would have ever thunk that it would get this cheap? Granted it is only low earth orbit. Still, it seems too good to be true.
If a computer game is featured in the NY Times, you know it is bad. You could almost fool oneself into thinking that it would be fun to play the game until you get to the end of the review.
This week’s rant of the week is on one of the more common ways of lying with statistics.
This week’s essay of the week is a report on the latest understanding of Celiac’s Disase.
Henry Allingham has died. Harry Patch has died. There are now only three men left alive who served during World War I. And none of them saw active combat.
World War II veterans are also dying at a rapid rate. For example, Darrell “Shifty” Powers has recently died. He survive combat jumps and fight in both Normandy and Market Garden. He also fought through the Siege of Bastogne.
If you know anything about the history of World War II at all, you know that this man went through some of the toughest battles that American troops ever fought in World War II. It is amazing to me that a man could keep his sanity after going through all that, much less live to be 86 years old.
Strangely enough, it is hard to get a good account of all that Shifty went through on the internet. You would think that a man who was portrayed in all 10 episodes of a band of brothers would have more real info about him on the web. But here is the best account I could find.