Climate change in Canada: some ups, some downs
by Luke Rodgers on April 17, 2008
Some snippets from a recent Climate Action Network Canada newsletter:
Manitoba has introduced legislation that, if passed, will oblige the province to meet Kyoto accord targets
Youth activists and Raging Grannies protest Conservative party filibuster of the commons environment committee to stymie (…)
Inequality is bad: left-wing dogma, or common sense?
by Luke Rodgers on April 16, 2008
The Australian Centre for Independent Study (CIS) recently claimed, in an article purporting to debunk “six social policy myths“, that an “egalitarian orthodoxy”, i.e. a systematic and biased belief that inequality is bad, “shapes the public policy agenda in all (…)
Back when men were men, and calculators weighed five tons
by Luke Rodgers on April 15, 2008
Charles Babbage was a 19th century chap, credited with having invented the first mechanical computer, and was also the father of Ada Lovelace, considered by some to have been the first computer programmer (avant la lettre).
In 1991, London’s science museum (…)
Great depression and WWII in colour
by Luke Rodgers on April 15, 2008
The US Library of Congress has a Flickr account (if they do, maybe I should too…), and have a ton of amazing colour photos from the 30s and 40s.
Report: most countries will fail to meet Millennium Development Goals by 2015
by Luke Rodgers on April 14, 2008
According to the recently published Global Monitoring Report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), most countries will fail to meet the goals by 2015, despite many countries being on-track to halve extreme poverty by that time.
The authors of the report (…)
US war robots in Iraq aim guns at human masters
by Luke Rodgers on April 13, 2008
Despite this minor setback, people in the US military were able to keep their cool, and not come to extreme conclusions like, “maybe we shouldn’t put guns on robots.”
Though these friendly looking little guys were pulled from operation, there is (…)
UK scientists further discredit link between climate change and solar activity
by Luke Rodgers on April 13, 2008
Following evidence last year from Mike Lockwood at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK that there was no link between the sun’s magnetic activity and global temperatures, the “sun activity” theory received a further blow from research findings by (…)
What is RSS?
by Luke Rodgers on April 11, 2008
The fact that RSS has been around since 1999, yet we still feel the need (and with good reason) to put “what is RSS?” next to our RSS feed buttons (at least, on websites for less technologically-included audiences) suggests that (…)
