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Save the Planet from the Stoners!
Bummer, dude. Marijuana growing accounts for 1% of all US power consumption. It’s like, they’re so stoned they don’t care about Saving the Planet, or something… Read more
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Think harder! Work smarter! Buy a stopwatch!
Matthew Stewart blows the lid off the MBA; he suggests a degree in philosophy might be more useful (and insightful). The strange thing about my utter lack of education in management was that it didn’t seem to matter. As a principal and founding partner of a consulting firm that eventually grew to 600 employees, I Read more
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It’s almost as if this Green Energy stuff was just one big scam
The latest analysis of wind power in the UK is not optimistic: Analysis of hard data from National Grid shows that wind behaves in a quite different manner from that suggested by study of average output derived from the Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs) record, or from wind speed records which in themselves are averaged. It Read more
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No yawning required here
I have plenty of students who don’t need the preliminary yawn in order to get their mouths stuck on open. Read more
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The latest craze: the Chicken Swap
St Petersburg, Florida, leaps to the leading edge of the Urban Chicken Movement. Tip from the Instapundit. Update (11 April). It IS possible for this urban chicken thing to get out of hand. Read more
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Maybe y’all should listen to those old squares
Mom’s First Law of Floods: Where water has been before, water will be again. Lots of Japanese ignored that law, but the folks of Aneyoshi followed it scrupulously. Too bad most folks don’t stop to read the writing on the wall–or on those corny old stone markers, either… Update (9 April). Masanobu Shishikura didn’t need Read more
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“Multicultural” has officially Jumped the Shark
A few years back, one of my hipper students cracked up a lecture when I started sketching a diagram using colored chalks. “Oooh, DIVERSITY CHALK!” she quipped, and the entire class–Black, Anglo, and (mainly) Mexicano–convulsed in laughter. Now the joke’s on her, with Crayola’s new line of “Multicultural” markers: With this product, I think “multicultural” Read more
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Talk about noisy apartments!
No car chases, explosions, big names, CGI graphics, or any of that other Hollywood crap. Just two guys and a loft apartment. Magic. Tip from the American Digest. Read more
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Selfish bastards
Think vegans are cool? Their stupid diets sometime starve their children to death. I know a lady here in Texas whose kids’ growth is stunted from being raised on a vegan diet. Idiot. Read more
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