I don’t usually write about The Final Frontier, but this article has a great parallel to what I do write about. It’s worth reading the entire article, but the main message is that we cannot use the dream or story or fairy tale of imminent migration into space and other planets as an excuse not…
This is really fantastic news. Â The Swazi King is apparently reluctant to accept the loan from South Africa because of the conditions imposed in the agreement. I was quite harsh in criticising the granting of the loan with only conditions for improvement far down the line. Â (I still believe the first condition should be an…
I don’t know what more to say about this: Teachers can’t do fractions. For all the complex thoughts on teaching approaches and school feeding schemes and  exam difficulty and class sizes and parental involvement and availability of tertiary education and apprenticeships and any number of other issues, if teachers don’t know their subject education is…
All that time spent carefully filing emails into ever-more complex folder structures is a waste. “Searchers” were able to find emails more quickly than “filers” in a study by IBM covering 354 email users. Â Filers took nearly a minute per email on average, with searchers only take a third of that time.
Gold has had a fantastic run, getting to within sight of $2,000 recently. Many see this as a clear indication of hyper inflationary pressures arising out of loose monetary policy. The informed recognise that you can’t have hyperinflation if all sensible measures of actual prices other than a particular, volatile commodity are showing very low…
A British geologist has volunteered to spend 48 hours in an airtight chamber relying on the oxygen produced by plants to survive. “This experiment has never been done before with a human – it seems a fascinating challenge to see if plants really could keep a person alive,” Stewart said. So I’m left wondering how…
How to get 211 tonnes of gold to VenezuelaÂ
2,000 visitors in the last month for the first time. A few posts driving much of the conversation, but appreciate the visits all the same. Thanks, David
