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By Yoram|2021-05-19T01:15:43-06:00June 23rd, 2011|Blog|0 Comments
  • Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight
  • Chinese Gadfly Emerges From Jail With Uncharacteristic Silence
  • Bacteria develop restraint for survival in a rock-paper-scissors community (cool UW study with an undergrad co-author! For micro book…)
  • Why hasn’t commercial air travel gotten any faster?: “By the laws of physics, the increase in drag equals the square of the increase in speed, so even a slightly faster flight requires a lot more fuel. Hiking a plane’s velocity by 10 percent takes 21 percent more energy. Speeding up by 40 percent approximately doubles fuel consumption.”
  • The Indiana Exception? Yes, but…
  • Climate of Denial by Al Gore: “And all of these options would spread even more rapidly if we stopped subsidizing Big Oil and Coal and put a price on carbon that reflected the true cost of fossil energy — either through the much-maligned cap-and-trade approach, or through a revenue-neutral tax swap.” Also this: “Ultimately, however, the only way to address the climate crisis will be with a global agreement that in one way or another puts a price on carbon. And whatever approach is eventually chosen, the U.S. simply must provide leadership by changing our own policy.”
  • High-Speed Rail Poised to Transform China
  • This is a Test, Stephen Gregg’s play with the classic phrase: “We learned Chinese on Tuesday.” If only! And the website has this amusing disclaimer: “[A]t one point in the play, the characters speak a few lines of Chinese. Horrifyingly enough, the Chinese isn’t real. I made it up.”
  • Seriously, Some Consensus About Health Care by Greg Mankiw
  • What to Do With Lemons by Thomas Friedman: “A deal that recognizes the Palestinian state in terms that address Israel’s concerns could not only help both sides walk back from the abyss but also pin down a historic two-state solution in 2011.”
  • http://www.largefilesasap.com sends large files for free. And you can make a donation… and they’re in Victoria BC!

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