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Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Monday, October 5, 2009
The Way We Live Now
The New Gender Gap, LISA BELKIN, NYTimes Online, October 4, 2009
Women are doing better in the [US] recession — because men are doing worse.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
The World According to Glenn Beck: NBC HQ At 30 Rock is the Heart of A Communist Conspiracy!
Dude, don't the Americans have like an economy to worry about?
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Monday, August 24, 2009
Knowing what I know now
I posted A Gentle Reminder: Narnia is Not a Real Country on January 4, 2006
A couple weeks ago I watched a documentary about The Yes Men who
The documentary focuses on them poses as the World Trade Organization. I wonder if they were the ones behind the Narnia "talks"?
A financial new agency reported that Narnia representative Susan Aslan walked out of World Trade Organization talks. The story was picked up by several other news agencies.
The Lion, The Witch and The World Trade talks (from The Age)
A couple weeks ago I watched a documentary about The Yes Men who
are a group of culture jamming activists who practice what they call "identity correction" by pretending to be powerful people and spokespersons for prominent organizations. They create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they want to spoof, and then they accept invitations received on their websites to appear at conferences, symposia, and TV shows. - Wikipedia
The documentary focuses on them poses as the World Trade Organization. I wonder if they were the ones behind the Narnia "talks"?
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
I have a great desire to find the middle of now where
It is times like these that I wished I didn't live in the city...
Perseids: "Last Chance" for Best Meteor Viewing Tonight
Perseids: "Last Chance" for Best Meteor Viewing Tonight
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Part 2: Wall may move ahead of public opinion on nuclear reactor
I said there would be more later...
I see both sides of the issue. Yes, SK needs a way to reduce CO2 emissions, there is a present need for medical isotopes and SK’s power needs will soon not be met by the current output capacity. This a case of an uninformed decision on part of the government. First, there is no possible way that a nuclear reactor could be operational in three years, as the government hopes. Usual time line suggest it be closer to 10 to 15 years. Second, the problem with shortage of medical isotopes is not a case of a shortage of reactors but a shortage of processing facilities.
The Saskatchewan government is not making a decision based on facts and that is what bothers me.
I see both sides of the issue. Yes, SK needs a way to reduce CO2 emissions, there is a present need for medical isotopes and SK’s power needs will soon not be met by the current output capacity. This a case of an uninformed decision on part of the government. First, there is no possible way that a nuclear reactor could be operational in three years, as the government hopes. Usual time line suggest it be closer to 10 to 15 years. Second, the problem with shortage of medical isotopes is not a case of a shortage of reactors but a shortage of processing facilities.
It's the production facilities that we use when we take those targets out of the reactor and process them to remove the medically useful isotopes -- that capacity around the world is very limited. So we don't need necessarily to build any more reactors; we need to build those processing facilities."
The president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Dr. Robert Atcher on Canada AM.
The Saskatchewan government is not making a decision based on facts and that is what bothers me.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
NY Times Breaking News?
I'm not sure how this happened because this is not spam. Further down it actually had the breaking news about Iran.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
A slightly different picture this year
It wasn't my best year for play-off predictions but at least I got round 3&4 right.
Now after watching easily over a hundred games since October, I'm sure what to do with myself now.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Thank you Capt Obvious!
Fact: Less men get married when they are outnumbered by women.
Phewf, science is a lot easier than I remember it being.
"When young men are scarce, they're more likely to play the field than to propose" - Laura Bailey, University of Michigan
Phewf, science is a lot easier than I remember it being.
"When young men are scarce, they're more likely to play the field than to propose" - Laura Bailey, University of Michigan
Friday, May 15, 2009
A Good Economic Example to Follow
Thriving Norway Provides an Economics Lesson - LANDON THOMAS Jr., NY Times Online, May 14, 2009
Instead of spending its oil riches, Norway saved, and it is now growing in the midst of the global recession.
Instead of spending its oil riches, Norway saved, and it is now growing in the midst of the global recession.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
We didn't start the fire....
When I first heard the fire alarm sound I thought "What idiot planned a fire drill with a -45C wind chill?" I grabbed my bag and left the Physics students' lounge and the hall was filled with smoke. I was with Blond Derek* and we met Jemaine** in the hallway on our way out the door. Jemaine was in the middle of an experiment that he just had to leave it going and start over later.
We were shooed out of the lab building towards the library. The next building over, the classroom building was evacuated as well. There were grumblings from students about the physics dept starting fires with there experiments which is complete baloney. The only experiments running at the time were first years seeing how fast ice melts in cold water and a pendulum. The only thing "dangerous" in our wing is a neutron howitzer which radiates materials and cannot cause fires.
We didn't know what happened to everyone else from the Physics dept. We wandered back and forth between the entrances from both sides of the building waiting for it to open again. We ran into was The Commie*** eventually. There were many strange conversations about possible sources of the fire****:
- the pendulum was moving so fast it punched a whole in the space-time continuum
- the pendulum bob was made of a highly reactive metal
- the biology dept is breeding dragons (which lead to Blond Derek's decision to raise an army of zombie dragons for a biology project)
- spontaneous combustion of multiple professors
We found our way back to the library where we met the head lab instructor returning from lunch. When he found out how long since we were evacuated he looked at the doors said "They'll let us in soon" then they opened! It was eerie.
Names are used to protect the innocent:
*He looks and acts almost exactly like Derek. We have a physics class and lab together. Once I get to know him better I'll ask if eats toast ironically. I missed tiny pointing Derek.
** By his own admission he looks like Jemaine Clement with a beer belly.
*** Been called so since deciding to take a class on Marxism.
**** I am well aware of our nerdiness.
We were shooed out of the lab building towards the library. The next building over, the classroom building was evacuated as well. There were grumblings from students about the physics dept starting fires with there experiments which is complete baloney. The only experiments running at the time were first years seeing how fast ice melts in cold water and a pendulum. The only thing "dangerous" in our wing is a neutron howitzer which radiates materials and cannot cause fires.
We didn't know what happened to everyone else from the Physics dept. We wandered back and forth between the entrances from both sides of the building waiting for it to open again. We ran into was The Commie*** eventually. There were many strange conversations about possible sources of the fire****:
- the pendulum was moving so fast it punched a whole in the space-time continuum
- the pendulum bob was made of a highly reactive metal
- the biology dept is breeding dragons (which lead to Blond Derek's decision to raise an army of zombie dragons for a biology project)
- spontaneous combustion of multiple professors
We found our way back to the library where we met the head lab instructor returning from lunch. When he found out how long since we were evacuated he looked at the doors said "They'll let us in soon" then they opened! It was eerie.
Names are used to protect the innocent:
*He looks and acts almost exactly like Derek. We have a physics class and lab together. Once I get to know him better I'll ask if eats toast ironically. I missed tiny pointing Derek.** By his own admission he looks like Jemaine Clement with a beer belly.
*** Been called so since deciding to take a class on Marxism.
**** I am well aware of our nerdiness.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Pride Comes Before the Fall
"You want to know my philosophy? One day a peacock. The next day a feather duster."
PAT QUINN, the governor of Illinois, on his turn in the spotlight.
PAT QUINN, the governor of Illinois, on his turn in the spotlight.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Very Bit Makes a Difference
I wish more people in my own country had this attitude:
"This is huge. This is bigger than life itself. When I was coming up, I always thought they put in who they wanted to put in. I didn’t think my vote mattered. But I don’t think that anymore."
DEDDRICK BATTLE, who at age 55 registered to vote for the first time.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Suspect Description
The suspect is described as a white male, about 30 years old, with brown hair. He was wearing a blue jacket and blue jeans.- Police ID girl slain in small Alberta town, CBC Online, Last Updated: Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 5:47 PM MT
I'm not trying to make light of the situation but that sounds like about a hundred guys I know. I remember a news report teaching people what details to concentrate on when they witness a crime but who is thinking of that at the time? I'd probably be way too freaked out by what I was seeing to be focusing on the details of the criminal.
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