Some back-of-the-envelope math on the Gulf spill: roughly 102 million gallons of oil and about 1.1 million gallons of dispersant, against a Gulf volume on the order of 650 quadrillion gallons.
Run the ratio and the spill comes out to a vanishingly small fraction — parts per trillion. No wonder they were having trouble finding the oil to clean up. (Scale matters.)
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One of the seminal events in my life was reading Atlas Shrugged. To my mind, Objectivism is the only rational modus operandi for the human race. What is interesting in this 1959 interview is how little Mike Wallace understood — or chose not to understand — of what Ayn Rand was actually
Hard to believe how close we are to the end of life as we know it. I knew that madness had made inroads during the global-warming debate, but I never imagined how deep the intellectual rot had progressed. The emergency is real
How does this craziness get created? Why is no one standing up to the Politburo's five-year plan? How did this happen so quickly — and why don't I stand up? The response-plan document