They say that the peak in oil prices is caused by the unrest in the Middle East. The data doesn’t necessarily support that. In fact some might say that what is happening in the middle east is good for trade and efficient pricing because oil producing countries will become more democratic and transparent rather than …
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Category:7 Holonics and Life
Where are you going?
It is important to know where we come from, because if you don’t know where you come from then you don’t know where you are and if you don’t know where you are then you don’t know where you’re going. And if you don’t know where you are going, you’re probably going wrong. Terry Pratchett, …
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What Is the Meaning Of Life? 1 or 0?
So, I’m in the middle of resurrecting my computer after it suffered a fatal bout of Windowsitis, and while letting off steam to my dad have some unexpected insights based on an IT metaphor. I was testing three operating systems (OpenSuse, Kubuntu, Vista) and a virtualisation tool. It was glitching at the multiboot setup – …
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Has economics reached its sell-by date?
A note by Richard and Stella, voicing frustrations many of us feel in the imploding Irish economy. How far will things have to disintegrate before we cop on that we cannot continue to do things in the same way? At the moment, issues of the economy are determining political decisions, and consequently, are affecting decisions …
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Singh Obama
BBC: US-India ties ‘to define century’ No doubt. And for all the right reasons. Like geopolitical balance and the cosmic rhythm. Other relationships will define the century too.
25 Amazing Food Cures
I was sent this Men’s Health link listing 25 “amazing food cures”. The foods do things like boost serotonin and endorphins, provide particular vitamins, fatty acids, probiotics and anti-oxidants, boost metabolism, and so forth. In any case, variety and moderation are the key to a healthy diet (and for me that even includes movie-night binging …
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Banking, Budgets, Inflation, Food prices
Four degrees of separation? I just browsed through three links that interested me and suddenly noticed that they drew the banking crisis and the food crisis (which is barely on many people’s radar) together. Here it is: US banking system ‘open to abuse’ One of the US’s top fraud investigators is warning that America’s policing …
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BT Notes – It’s all about food
It’s all about food. Summer was busy because of all the work put in to the garden by our children in spring. And though it is not a commercially viable business in Ireland, growing fruit and vegetables on a small scale as we do is enriching. It beings me closer to Earth and nature. I’m …
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Inequality in America is stretched wider
The US Census Bureau’s report – Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the US: 2009 says the number of people in poverty increased by nearly 4m – to 43.6m – between 2008 and 2009. One in seven Americans was living in poverty in 2009 with the level of working-age poor the highest since the …
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