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There was an article on the BBC a few days ago. About global warming vs. the GDP.Essentially, somebody is making the argument that it's not possible for a country to increase its GDP (Essentially, it's overall profitability) without simultaneously in… more »

So.. when snow's on the ground, have you ever noticed how all the things that you usually think are nice and clean and white suddenly look drab and yellowish and dirty? Have you ever wondered why snow is such a pure white? Especially when the blank… more »

So we've all seen the news that a wannabe terrorist managed to get a bomb onto a plane. And there's a lot of fuss being made about how he shouldn't have been able to manage it, and we have to tighten security and do all kinds of body scans and various ot… more »

The BBC has a story about the latest in a long line of ways to transmit power wirelessly. As I said in my last rant on the subject of going green, you'll accomplish far more by finding better and more efficient ways to accomplish a given task than you… more »

So, I moved in a while ago, and the plumbing was (and I'm being kind here) installed by blind, fumble-fingered, brain-damaged monkeys. Badly-trained ones, at that. It's all been ripped out and replaced since. One of the bits of plumbing that didn't wo… more »