In child psychology birth order is often considered significantly determinative. Younger siblings often learn lessons watching the elder ones, well, screw up. Canada is almost a full century younger than its North American sibling. What exactly is going on above the 49th parallel? First quarter 2011 my Canadian brethren and sisters (full disclosure, je suis…
Watch a live stream of a Major League Baseball game, or a speech from the next Climate Change Convention on your broadband-wireless-connected tablet and you personally — not all the participants, viewers and hangers-on, just you — are using about as much energy as driving about 30 miles in your favorite car.
There has not been for decades, maybe centuries, a more exciting time to be part of and invest in the entertainment industry. Yes, I know that the Great Recession has hampered or hammered nearly every corner of the entertainment arts world. But consider this. Even during and seemingly despite the biggest economic downturn in 80…
Last week 80-year-old former Saudi oil minister, Sheikh Yamani put out a $200 to $300 barrel price as a possibility in the context of “something” happening in Saudi Arabia. Scary number from a serious guy. He was referring to “something” along similar lines as the political firestorm that started in Tunisia disrupting Saudi Aramco’s oil production…
It’s too early to predict the final outcome of the still unfolding accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site that began with the heartbreaking tsunami on 3/11/11. But we do know several things; a) there is by any reasonable measure de minimus broad public risk, b) there will be substantial economic costs to Japan, and c) there…
IBM’s supercomputer Watson performed quite a stunt on Jeopardy last week. A match between the two all-time human champs and some 200,000 watts of computing power took the man-machine challenge to a new level. The computer won, handily. But that’s not news.
