tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25069352485129028542024-10-11T16:08:14.018-07:00Thaddeus Primehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977843374272747914noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506935248512902854.post-7511821981189062062009-05-14T18:59:00.000-07:002009-05-14T19:20:29.868-07:00

There's an interesting article in the NYT today. This sentence just about sums it all up:Norway is a relatively small country with a largely homogeneous population of 4.6 million and the advantages of being a major oil exporter.The Norwegians have been great managers of their wealth, and I do not wish to take away from their hard work, but their success has much to do with factors essentially

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Ok, so this is pretty much one of the most interesting articles I've recently read about the Global Economic Crisis, in large part because of the image I have in my mind of the vast number of ships off Singapore.Tidbits:Hundreds of cargo ships — 100,000 to 300,000 tons each, with the larger ones weighing more than the entire 130-ship Spanish Armada — bob so empty that they seem to perch on top of

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I came across this rather sobering article in the Los Angeles Times today, which offers up Australia as an example of the things to come on a global scale. In their words:They call Australia the Lucky Country, with good reason. Generations of hardy castoffs tamed the world's driest inhabited continent, created a robust economy and cultivated an image of irresistibly resilient people who can't be

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The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air.John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper

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