Chart: Deaths per Energy Source
The irrationality of rationalization.
Data in the chart above are from the Next Big Future blog.
21 MarchTag: markets
China Tomorrow
The Economist’s Free Exchange blog has a handy table showing you when China’s GDP will overtake America’s. You can manipulate it by changing the projected growth figures, though under any reasonable assumption, China will become the world’s larges…
18 January50 Cent moves markets
The share price for stock in H&H Imports, Inc. went up 290% between the close of market on Friday to the end of the day today. The reason for the move? Entertainer/investor 50 Cent, who owns a portion of the tiny company, tweeted all weekend about…
11 JanuaryBetter Eat Those Bananas … While You Still Can
Think about apples for a second. There are Granny Smiths, Red Delicious, Fuji, etc. Now think about bananas. There are just, like, bananas, right? The only bananas that Americans eat ??? and they eat more of them than they do apples and oranges comb…
7 JanuaryProspects for a Space Elevator
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3 January
Markets: World Babies
…Prospective parents put off by the rigor of traditional adoptions are bypassing that system by producing babies of their own???often using an egg donor from one country, a sperm donor from another, and a surrogate who will deliver in a third coun…
24 DecemberThe culture that is Wisconsin
The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That???s great. There were over 600,000 hunters. Allow me to restate that number. Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world ??? more men…
9 DecemberHow to make a nuclear bomb
Tired of being bossed around? Want your neighbors to treat you with more respect? Want to play in the majors? If so, you have to have your own nukes… First, begin developing a civilian nuclear program. Under the NPT, you are not only entitled to…
15 Junethe growing business of turd
In 2008, along with most other commodities, the market for fertiliser had reached its highest price peak ever. It gave a taste to the people in the business how much money that could be had in feeding the world. Then the market eased and the takeo…
28 April