Archive for 2015
Maybe we shouldn’t put the oil in a pipe or on a train
It looks like Keystone XL isn’t going to be built so all that bitumen from the tar sands is going to have to find another way to market. That means oil trains. Lac megantic wasn’t the only oil train accident, though it was very deadly. Another particularly large accident was in West Virginia recently (it […]
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Instead of opening the field for actors of any race to compete for any role in a color-blind manner, there has been a significant number of parts designated as ethnic this year, making them off-limits for Caucasian actors,” complains Andreeva. Link.
While you’re waiting for the bus
The math of Ferguson: percentages don’t show how bad it really is “What’s our Nature paper?” Are walking and cycling as green as we imagine? The other issue is that cars look relatively good because the comparison is on a per kilometre basis. The emissions associated with the manufacture and disposal of cars are averaged […]
Who the hell doesn’t know Stromae?
So sometimes I get really sad and dance and somebody wrote a song for that.* Stromae is kind of insanely famous not-in-America. When he played at SXSW the marketing and crowd were very weird. All over SXSW, kiosks were plastered with posters that posed a provocative question: “Who the hell is Stromae?” It’s a question […]
Migraine Log – latest research edition
So January and February I got a lot of migraines. A lot. I don’t know why I’m getting so many. I guess I can be grateful that many of them are not severe. Here’s a round-up of articles on migraine research that made me feel better than that graph: A nice summary of migraine and […]
Don’t oversell tech or people might get trapped in their car and almost die
Last year, an older couple got trapped in their new car in their own garage. It was a car with a remote keyless system that automatically locked once they got in. But they’d left the smart key outside. It’s a brand new modern car, with this fancy wireless computer system controlling everything from the ignition […]