Monthly Archives: March 2007

Saturday Links for the Week – March 10, 2007

Posted on March 10, 2007 by Dave Pollard

What It All Means This Week:Global Warming: Don’t Tell Them, Show Them, Open Source: The Union of Concerned Scientists, fed up with lawsuits filed by the US automakers claiming the new fuel standards proposed by 15 US states and the … Continue reading →

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A Few Lines About Lines

Posted on March 9, 2007 by Dave Pollard

According to an MIT professor, we spend 2-3 years of our life waiting in lines: in stores, at the doctor’s, at the bank, at the airport, for public transport, for government services and so on. And that doesn’t include the … Continue reading →

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What a Fair (and Socially and Environmentally Responsible) Tax System Might Look Like

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Dave Pollard

It was 2035, five years after the end of the India-Pakistan nuclear war, two years after the horrific Chinese Drought, and ten years after the Second Great Depression finally drew to a tenuous close. A third consecutive year of disastrous … Continue reading →

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More Fun With Numbers – The Information Overload Edition

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Dave Pollard

An article in yesterday’s NYT says we’re producing digital information in volumes that will soon exceed our capacity to store it. Something about these huge numbers didn’t ring right. “Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”, TS Eliot … Continue reading →

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Cytokine Storm

Posted on March 6, 2007 by Dave Pollard

Those of you who have studied Gaia Theory will have an appreciation of the awesome and self-regulating complexity of our Earth-organism, and its evolved ability to enable and encourage staggering diversity and evolution while optimizing both the quantum and well-being … Continue reading →

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Anger Management

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Dave Pollard

Dear Dr. GetMellow: Over the past three weeks, I’ve lost my temper three times. All three times there was ample provocation for my anger, but in the long run it was wasted energy: It didn’t accomplish anything that wouldn’t have … Continue reading →

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Sunday Open Thread – March 4, 2009

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Dave Pollard

What I’m planning on writing about soon: What a Fair Tax System Might Look Like: Taxing bads (to discourage socially and environmentally destructive behaviour) and excess wealth (to remedy the dire consequences of gross inequality): A tax system with a … Continue reading →

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Saturday Links for the Week – March 3, 2007

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Dave Pollard

What It All Means This Week: It’s Joost Entertainment: I’ve been saying that the media serve two functions — information and entertainment — and that the mainstream media have more or less abandoned the former because the latter is cheaper, … Continue reading →

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What’s to Eat?

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Dave Pollard

Toxins. Chemicals. Artificial additives. Trans and saturated fats. Sugars. Salt. Genetically manufactured ingredients. Preservatives. Hormones. Pesticides. Herbicides. Cholesterol. It’s hard to find foods that are free from this crap. Packaged, processed, and ‘fast’ foods are replete with them. Big Agribusiness … Continue reading →

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