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The end
And it’s good night from the Aral Sea
Once the world’s fourth largest inland sea, king cotton and the command economy have done for it in a few short decades, with its volume falling by more than three-quarters
Following up on a Facebook note by my old friend Sister Edith.
How-To Guides: Hand Tools for Woodworking
Monday night Irish Class, May 10, 2010
Irish Class, Monday, May 10, 2010
Rang Gaeilge, 10ú lá Mí na Bealtaine 2010
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Go Maolaí Air “May he back off”
pt. 2
Scríofa ag Wes Koster
The thrill of a near miss
Having taken, and understood, some serious classes in the mathematics of probability, the mentality of the gambler is incomprehensible to me. One of our cars has a bumper sticker that says: “Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”
So I found this interesting: Gambling: The almost-winning addiction
Piece of Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree to be carried into space
From Greece to ….
The Welfare State’s Death Spiral
What we’re seeing in Greece is the death spiral of the welfare state. This isn’t Greece’s problem alone, and that’s why its crisis has rattled global stock markets and threatens economic recovery. Virtually every advanced nation, including the United States, faces the same prospect. Aging populations have been promised huge health and retirement benefits, which countries haven’t fully covered with taxes. The reckoning has arrived in Greece, but it awaits most wealthy societies.
Another win for reality over ideology
News from the Bronze Age
Energy in America: A view from England
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: Deep trouble
However you measure the full cost of a gallon of gas, pollution and all, Americans are nowhere close to paying it. Indeed, their whole energy industry—from subsidies for corn ethanol to limited liability for nuclear power—is a slick of preferences and restrictions, without peer. The tinkering that will follow this spill will merely further complicate it.
…. But if the politicians are really as committed to “cleaning up” the energy industry as they now claim, far more could be achieved by reducing the subsidies and introducing a carbon tax. That may seem a long way from the calamity in the Gulf; but in the long run those other murky waters also need to be cleaned up.
From The Economist.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 