Can you imagine how cool it would be if they used an interactive zoomable pie chart like this one that shows inflation.
You'd start with every government department visible, you could then zoom in to any spending program and see how it was made up, area being proportional to cost.
Lamarckism refers to the once widely accepted idea that an organism can pass on characteristics that it acquired during its lifetime to its offspring (also known as based on heritability of acquired characteristics).
The reason this is so surprising is it breaks a central tenant of genetics, the fact that DNA --> body is a one way process. The germ line DNA is kept separate from the DNA of the rest of the body.
Of course I haven't RTFA so I could be completely wrong.
Actually, if you have enough diverse and disparate sources, coupled with transnational high voltage direct current cables then solar/wind etc can be used as a reliable "base load":
the effects of linking the electricity networks of all the countries in Europe and connecting them to North Africa and Iceland with high voltage direct current cables(7). This would open up a much greater variety of renewable power sources. Every country in the network would then be able to rely on stable and predictable supplies from elsewhere: hydroelectricity in Scandanavia and the Alps, geothermal energy in Iceland and vast solar thermal farms in the Sahara. By spreading the demand across a much wider network, it suggests that 80% of Europe's electricity could be produced from renewable power without any greater risk of blackouts or flickers. Read more here.
1-1-2 is the emergency number in several European countries. It should work in every EU country even here in the UK where the traditional number is 9-9-9.
This article raises the problem of conceptualising the time scales involved:
And how does any system - political or technological - cope with the timescales involved? If, as a result of slow leakage into the groundwater, radioactive materials from a burial site kill an average of only one person a year for one million years, those who made the decision to bury them will - through their infinitesimal and unrecorded impacts - be responsible for the deaths of a million people.
One of the leading campaigners in this area is George Monbiot, he has thought about how industrialised countries can make a 90% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.
In a recent article entitled Here's the Plan he set out 10 steps to achieve this while changing our every day life as little as possible.
Instead of carbon tax he suggests:
...set a personal carbon ration. Every citizen is given a free annual quota of carbon dioxide. He spends it by buying gas and electricity, petrol and train and plane tickets. If he runs out, he must buy the rest from someone who has used less than his quota(2). This accounts for about 40% of the carbon dioxide we produce. The rest is auctioned off to companies. It's a simpler and fairer approach than either green taxation or the Emissions Trading Scheme, and it also provides people with a powerful incentive to demand low-carbon technologies. Timescale: a full scheme in place by January 2009.
This scheme would not penalise the poor as carbon taxes might because they would be able to sell off their surplus rations.
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Can you imagine how cool it would be if they used an interactive zoomable pie chart like this one that shows inflation.
You'd start with every government department visible, you could then zoom in to any spending program and see how it was made up, area being proportional to cost.
If recovery.gov don't do it, someone should.
It's the same with all published journalism:
What is the product? The publication. No. The product is the reader.
And who is the customer? The reader. No. The customer is the advertiser.
So a publisher sells readers to advertisers. Got it?
Socialized Terrestrial Locating!
YOU COMMUNIST PIG.
1-1-2 is the emergency number in several European countries. It should work in every EU country even here in the UK where the traditional number is 9-9-9.
flip the source of the ray to this.
best slashdot comment ... ever
One of the leading campaigners in this area is George Monbiot, he has thought about how industrialised countries can make a 90% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.
In a recent article entitled Here's the Plan he set out 10 steps to achieve this while changing our every day life as little as possible.
Instead of carbon tax he suggests:
This scheme would not penalise the poor as carbon taxes might because they would be able to sell off their surplus rations.