Posts Tagged ‘technology’
BBC superficial on banks and crisis
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24 Jan 2011This is my latest comment from Fund Strategy. Last week’s BBC programme on Britain’s banks and the economic crisis was genuinely important. It provided the public with the opportunity to hear many of the key players involved including bankers, regulators and expert commentators. The programme was also a vivid illustration of the strengths and weaknesses [...]
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Back in action
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9 Jan 2011I have spent the past two weeks or so taking a break and thinking about future plans. More on the latter when the arrangements are firmer but my immediate priority is my debate in Birmingham on Tuesday evening. In the meantime there follows some interesting references I have stumbled across in the past few days: [...]
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Articles of note
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19 Dec 2010How a different America responded to the Great Depression, Pew Research Center, by Jodie T Allen. Opinion poll evidence suggests Americans were more optimistic in the late 1930s than they are now. A Czar is born, Claremont Review of Books, Joseph Postell. A review of books by Cass Sunstein including Nudge. Matt Ridley on technology, [...]
- Tags: articles of note, book, climate, economics, progress, radio, technology
Fusion really is 20 years away
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11 Dec 2010Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York, argues that nuclear fusion – the form of energy that powers that sun – really could be harnessed within two decades. Although similar predictions have been made in the past, the joke is that fusion is always 20 years away, he [...]
- Tags: energy, science, technology
Happiness apps for the iPhone
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21 Nov 2010A “happiness app” for iPhones is now available in America (at trackyourhappiness.org) and Britain (at mappiness.org.uk – linked to the Movement for Happiness). After you fill in some basic questions for statistical purposes you are sent regular text messages asking how you are feeling and what you are doing. The app evidently then generates a [...]
- Tags: happiness, technology
Articles of note
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16 Nov 2010Ireland still has the power to make itself a country worth living in, the Observer, by Fintan O’Toole. The assistant editor of the Irish Times argues the Ireland should embrace “ethical austerity”. I suspect that will be even more painful than regular austerity. Government ‘planning to measure people’s happiness‘, BBC. For a critique of this [...]
Greens fight among themselves
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6 Nov 2010It was hard to resist laughing at the divisions among greens brought out in What the Green Movement Got Wrong, a Channel 4 documentary broadcast on Thursday. Some greens, such as Mark Lynas and Stewart Brand, wanted a more positive attitude towards such issues as nuclear power and genetically modified food. Others, such as George [...]
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Great headline
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28 Oct 2010The BBC has used the headline “Ferraris for all” on Rory Cellan-Jones’ blog post on the planned introduction of superfast broadband in Britain. By coincidence the technology writer is married to Diane Coyle who reviewed my book on her Enlightenment Economics blog and and gave it a testimonial.
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Articles of note
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17 Oct 2010Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium, Telegraph, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. Evidently Carlo Rubbia, a Nobel laureate, is working on thorium as a clean, cheap and safe alternative to uranium in reactors. Are cattle an endangered species?, Rational Optimist, by Matt Ridley. The author finds that one of the plants designated [...]
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Something to celebrate
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15 Oct 2010Evidently humans have scored another victory against nature. The rinderpest virus, which has killed millions of cattle, has been elimated according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). According to the BBC report on the subject: “The eradication of the virus has been described as the biggest achievement in veterinary history and one [...]
- Tags: progress, science, technology
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