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The Reference & Education Blog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
By Gary Greenman Fluorescent lights no longer offer just a dim flicker. Yes they are the green option to normal light bulbs, but they can also be interesting and are a favourite of current designers. So why are they a good green alternative, and what's so fashionable about them? Any electrician can tell you that fluorescent lights tend to last four to ten times as long as normal (filament) light bulbs...
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Cocktail Party Physics (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
There's a song by Bruce Cockburn called "The Trouble With Normal" that has stuck with me for years since I first heard it in graduate school. The line in its entirety goes "The trouble with normal is it only gets...
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Echo9er (Free subscription) | 02/24/2009
via Wikepedia… … In his 1999 book The Trouble With Normal, gay author Michael Warner argued that same-sex marriage is an undesirable goal for the gay rights movement?
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The Island of Doubt (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
It'll all go back to normal if we put our nation first But the trouble with normal is It always gets worse. -- Bruce Cockburn, "The trouble with normal" It's hard to know what's worse: an economist who thinks he understand climatology better than climatologists, or a news outlet that thinks asking an economist for his thoughts on climatology is a good idea. Because I've spent more than 20...
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Infectious Greed (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
Some links of interest: High Noon for state and local budgets ( Morgan Stanley ) John Boyd and the countdown to an economic meltdown ( James Fallows ) Pro Sports On The Skid? ( NPR ) The central bank flight to safety ( Setser ) The trouble with normal is no-one knows what normal is anymore ( Cassandra ) Japan exports plunge 27% as exports collapse ( Bloomberg ) China Faces Unrest as Economy Falters...
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