Thoughts for the day Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. If you do not change direction, you may end up where you’re heading. Philosopher Lao Tzu, quoted in The Guardian Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life. Marc Chagall, quoted on Bustle.com …
The British government plan to increase University tuition fees in England to £9,250 per year from 2017. Thereafter, fees will increase by the rate of inflation in subsequent years. This represents a 2.8% increase and if that continued would mean fees rising above £10,000 (over $14,000) in the next few years. Other increases will be linked …
This is a disgraceful. Dr. Jonathan Lundgren is the award- winning scientist, who discovered that Bayer pesticides were killing bees in huge numbers, as discussed on this blog last Friday. It appears that Dr. Lundgrun was told by the US Department of Agriculture to stop publicizing his research, which didn’t suit USDA at all. When …
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Recent news indicates that there are upward of 400 billion stars, a management problem, even for God. Where on earth do you start? When God Lost the Planet Each day unfurled Another world! God sits up there and gently nurses Spanking, brand new universes. Purblinding flash! Oh, boom and crash! A zillion atoms spun in …
The Space Telescope Science Institute suggests that there are currently 1020, or 100 billion billion, Earth-like planets in the universe, with an equivalent number of gas giants. “Earth-like” doesn’t mean an exact replica of our planet, but rather a rocky world that, if blanketed by a suitable atmosphere, would hold liquid water on its surface. …
