Just read the and I’m going to to be able to watch la boheme at Oct 1. 8 pm!
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Creativity Killing Schools
Talents are often buried quite deep. and it doesn’t emerge until the conditions are right!
Sir Ken Robinson
from a rihz khan interview! thanks to presentation zen here, and chuck for the pointer.
Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Why Alternative Energy Isn’t
Need to FAST TRACK our research on this! I think this maybe something I maybe involved in for a couple of years!
The pressing question, then, remains: What’s going to replace oil?
Let’s draw up a specification for the ideal replacement. We’d like a fuel with the energy density of oil, or better. We’d like the only per-unit cost to be sunlight, because that’s the only thing that’s 100% renewable and (unlike tidal, hydropower, and geothermal) available everywhere. Ideally, we’d like the stuff to not require a huge, expensive conversion job on our energy infrastructure.
Happily, I think this spec can be filled. There are demonstration plants making synthetic oil from algae at a per-unit cost not far above that of oil, and plenty of venture capital looking to fund more. As this technology scales up, algal-synfuel costs will drop below that of oil. At that point, the free market will have solved the problem.
Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Why Alternative Energy Isn’t.
So Thats Why Doctors Dont Use E-Mail – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog
Tell me about it. It seems that pareto principle is present in the number or time my parent spends on each patient. 80% of the patients take up only 20% of their time , whilst 20% of the patients consumes 80% of the time.
September 26, 2008, 1:50 pm
So That’s Why Doctors Don’t Use E-Mail
By Stephen J. Dubner
I’ve known several doctors who refused to read e-mail from patients. They said it was simply a bad use of their time.
I also used to have a doctor who hated it whenever you came in and asked questions about some article you’d read in The Times about Lyme disease or some such. He’d get a pained look on his face — here we go again; patients pretending to be doctors — and then ignore the question.
So Thats Why Doctors Dont Use E-Mail – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog.
Your Country Would Like to Treat You to a Doctors Appointment – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog
This reminds me I’m up for my quarterly blood chemistry for cholesterol, etc. Hope everything goes well.
One way was made clear yesterday, when, as a (temporary) citizen of Bonn, Germany, my wife received a letter saying she had been scheduled for a free mammogram at a particular time and place. With a preset appointment, no effort is required to arrange things; this arrangement would certainly not exist for most people at home.
Substituting the small cost of preventive care for the large costs of curative care for all citizens seems like a sensible way to contain medical costs under a universal health care system.
Maybe, as I think will happen, the U.S. will finally provide access to health care for all citizens; and it may be possible to do so without shifting still more resources into this sector.
Your Country Would Like to Treat You to a Doctors Appointment – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog.
rePost – – Cool -Wild White House meeting sets back deal – David Rogers – Politico.com
Remind me of the West Wing!
Need to get this thing down, I believe looking back the heroes , villains and heroes of this crisis must be remembered, villified and villified.
Wild White House meeting sets back deal
By DAVID ROGERS | 9/25/08 9:58 PM EDT Updated: 9/25/08 9:58 PM EDT
After White House meeting, Dems complain of being “blindsided” by a new conservative alternative.
A high-profile White House meeting on Treasury’s $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan ended on a sour, contentious note Thursday after animated exchanges among lawmakers laced with presidential politics just weeks before the November elections.
“I can’t invent votes,” House Republican Leader John Boehner warned the administration about the lack of support in his conference for the massive government intervention. And House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) angrily accused House Republicans — with the tacit support of Republican presidential candidate John McCain — of crafting an alternative to undercut Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
Both McCain and his Democrat rival, Sen. Barack Obama, left without any joint endorsement. A beleaguered President Bush had to struggle to maintain order and reassert himself. And when Democrats left after the meeting to caucus in the Roosevelt Room, Paulson pursued them, begging that they not “blow up” the legislation.
The former Goldman Sachs CEO even went down on one knee as if genuflecting, to which Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) is said to have joked, “I didn’t know you were Catholic.”
The White House meeting had been called at the urging of McCain, but Democrats made sure Obama had a prominent part. And much as they complained later of being blindsided, the whole meeting turned out to be something of an ambush on their part—aimed at McCain and House Republicans.
“Speaking professionally,” said one Republican aide, “They did a very good job.”
When Bush yielded early to Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D- Nev.) to speak, they yielded to Obama to speak for the assembled Democrats. And it was Obama who raised the subject of the conservative alternative and pressed Paulson on what he thought of the idea.
Wild White House meeting sets back deal – David Rogers – Politico.com.
Study Ties Wage Disparities To Outlook on Gender Roles – washingtonpost.com
Hmm, This is a nice study and it shows that the feminist movement for eqaul pay for equal work must include not only the disadvantaged women but also the men who have support equal pay.
thanks to matt yglesias here:
Study Ties Wage Disparities To Outlook on Gender Roles
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 22, 2008; Page A02
Men with egalitarian attitudes about the role of women in society earn significantly less on average than men who hold more traditional views about women’s place in the world, according to a study being reported today.
It is the first time social scientists have produced evidence that large numbers of men might be victims of gender-related income disparities. The study raises the provocative possibility that a substantial part of the widely discussed gap in income between men and women who do the same work is really a gap between men with a traditional outlook and everyone else.
The differences found in the study were substantial. Men with traditional attitudes about gender roles earned $11,930 more a year than men with egalitarian views and $14,404 more than women with traditional attitudes. The comparisons were based on men and women working in the same kinds of jobs with the same levels of education and putting in the same number of hours per week.
Although men with a traditional outlook earned the most, women with a traditional outlook earned the least. The wage gap between working men and women with a traditional attitude was more than 10 times as large as the gap between men and women with egalitarian views.
If you divide workers into four groups — men with traditional attitudes, men with egalitarian attitudes, women with traditional attitudes and women with egalitarian attitudes — men with traditional attitudes earn far more for the same work than those in any of the other groups. There are small disparities among the three disadvantaged groups, but the bulk of the income inequality is between the first group and the rest.
“When we think of the gender wage gap, most of our focus goes to the women side of things,” said Beth A. Livingston, co-author of the study. “This article says a lot of the difference may be in men’s salaries.”
Study Ties Wage Disparities To Outlook on Gender Roles – washingtonpost.com.
rePost-Op-Ed Columnist – Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com
This quote was a gem:
BARTLET Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban fight song. The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it.
Op-Ed Columnist – Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com.
minor Rant : Don't Complain To Me Please
If you are not doing anything to figure out your dreams.
If you are not doing anything to improve your life.
If all you ever do is complain and perchance feel that complaining is a way of figuring out your dreams.
GFY
Keep Fooling Yourself, and while the people around you are slowly becoming more and more the happy transpositions of their potential turned real selves, please do just hush and channel it all in,
And maybe just maybe it sparks the fire within you to try, just try doing something for you.
Note: Rant For Me and a Few Others by Me, heheh!
Happy Birthday Dad!
Me and my brother and sister went home to the province to surprise our dad on his birthday. I would say it was tiring but it was worth it! I mostly slept to and fro.
It was amazing that it took us less than an hour and a half to go home thanks to NLEX and SCTex. we averaged 120kph and if it weren’t for the heavy rains we would have been ale to shave about 15 minutes from our travel time.
I seem to miss my parents a lot right now, and with an under two hours travel time by car, i’d probably be going home more often.
An incoherent post from someone who has less than two hours of sleep in 36 hours. hehehe!