So here is a scary thought: Asteroid 2007 TU24 was discovered on October 11, 2007 and it was only determined on January 24th, 2008 to not be a threat. What is the problem here? The closest approach to Earth of this object was calculated to be just 5 days later. Now I don’t know about […]
Read More →The US financial crisis is one of epic proportions. To understand it one needs to understand why and how money changes hands within a fairly complex system of exchanges To start we have the consumer with standard requirements for various types of debt instruments: mortgage, revolving credit, car loans, etc.. The consumer goes to the […]
Read More →So I am listening to CBC radio today very briefly in the car and they have some speaker on Ontario Today who is advocating a whole series of social reforms from increasing the minimum wage to benefits for contract employees and a host of other social programs. On the right side of the fence we […]
Read More →So yesterday I get invited to participate on a talk show called “The 2nd Question” as one of the panelists (that is me as Phelan Corrimal 2nd from the right). And the show starts off with their standard question — if you where an element what element would you be. Now – if you watched the video […]
Read More →I talked about this earlier but this is just very disturbing none the less. 400 dead zones have been identified around the world so far which is double what was recognized two years ago. The trouble still seems to be this whole attitude from before the 1900s that ‘man can improve on nature’when in fact […]
Read More →At some point the spammers are going to start to realize that all comments on here are moderated and that their comments are just being marked as such and deleted. I have no idea why someone goes to the effort to do this – this really can’t be a productive use of someone’s time can […]
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