What do you do if you don’t have the money to pay a debt? If you are like most of us, you borrow. The US Government is no different. In order to pay for the $700 billion bailout, it will have to borrow more money, increasing the national debt. But who will pay for this [...]
In the U.S., the kids are snorting Ritalin to get high. But in South Africa, the newest abused prescription drugs of choice are HIV drugs. Teenage schoolchildren in South Africa have been seen grinding up anti-retroviral pills and smoking them, sometimes mixed with painkillers or marijuana. The children say they are buying or stealing the [...]
This photograph was taken by nanotechnologist Kaito Takahashi using an electron microscope installed at SII Nanotechnology in Japan. A 15,000X magnification of an integrated circuit, the bowl is barely a nanometer wide. Any picopoop within, one presumes, would be so small as to exist in a state of quantum uncertainty.
[Super mushroom] – quail egg or hot dog sausage – cheese – seaweed – cherry tomato 1. Boiled quail egg. (or cut hot dog sausage) 2. Cut cherry tomato in a half, and take seeds out. 3. Put #2 on the boiled quail egg. (or hot dog sausage) 4. Cut circles out of cheese, and [...]
The view looks great–for now. When the days are short and cold, one’s thoughts often turn to warm memories of an idyllic summer vacation–or to making plans for the next one. A “blue cruise” on Turkey’s Aegean or Mediterranean coast is about as idyllic as you can get, traversing gorgeous coastline on a gület (wooden [...]
if you liked Obama’s proposed climate agenda, then you’ll love Scotland’s. Not only would it require an 80 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions below 1990 levels by mid-century, it would also require equivalent reductions from the five other major greenhouse gases. Emission levels would have to be reduced 50 percent below 1990 levels by [...]
photo by preetamra The Philippine Department of Tourism’s hat has been thrown into ecotourism game for awhile now. They’ve made it part of their plan for economic development. The country’s ecotourism program strives to install processes and procedures that are economically beneficial, socially responsible, ecologically sustainable and advantageous to the local communities by creating jobs [...]
