The flip side of my interest in the idea of Peak Oil is stories like this one.
This slideshow won a recent competition for “Best Slideshow” on Slideshare… THIRST View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design crisis)
This video, from the web site “Why Doesn't God Heal Amputees?“, poses some provocative questions. Or perhaps we should just be calling for a Truce on Religion? (Oh, and I found an answer for Question #8 as a start.)
This story's a month old now but I'm not sure how many people saw it – a scientist who studied bacteria for 44 000 generations (since 1988) has observed the bacteria mutating and after 33 000 generations, one of these mutations led to them evolving a new way to eat. Out of the blue, their […]
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No, not the catchy Feist song… Instead, “Saskaboom” was the name given to a feature that CBC's “The National” aired last night on Saskatchewan and our booming economy. The piece included a feature on Weyburn and the impact of the oil sector on the local economy. So if you want a taste of the city […]
Peak Oil is a theory that is increasingly relevant as the price of oil and gasoline continue to skyrocket. It was first proposed in the 1950's by an American geoscientist named M. King Hubbert who worked for Shell in Texas and correctly predicted that the supplies of oil were limited in the United States and […]
Pace is babbling up a storm these days (what's the line? “You spend the first few months of their lives waiting for them to talk and the next eighteen years wishing they would stop!” ) with lots of “da da”, “ga ga”, “blah blah, blah” (seriously!) and grunting noises. So I did some research (okay, […]
Six Ideas That Will Change the World(I also fixed the broken link in yesterday's post if anybody wants to see my paper and presentation on e-branch services for public libraries. Thanks to John M. for (gently) pointing out the mistake! )
I did a post like this during the coldest part of the winter so I'll do another one during the hottest day (so far) of the summer… We set a record today in Weyburn – I just did this screen cap below now but the highest point reached today was 42 degrees. (Does anywhere else […]
Similar to my FFL last week, Michelle L. links to another article slamming the impact of the Potter books. If you're going to buy her book, don't buy it for half price at a supermarket. As an example of a world gone mad, you couldn't do much better than this: a writer whose sales have […]
