Is Curing Cancer Bad For Business?
Ten years ago when the first full human genome was sequenced after a mammoth 14-year effort and a $3 billion effort, we were promised a bounty of cures for the…
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Newsflash: Math Analysis Proves Global Capitalism Controlled By Tiny Minority
Ladies & gentlemen, meet the "power ball" - a graphical representation of the concentration & centralization of capital This research is interesting. Some math theorists at ETH, a science &…
After Jack: Three Bad Ideas & One Good One For The NDP
The weeklong outpouring of mourning, love and solidarity after the passing of NDP Leader Jack Layton has now subsided. The sense of optimism that Jack insisted upon and the hunger…
Steve Jobs’ Biggest Success: Sweatshops & Fat Salaries
The other day I mused on the simultaneous outpourings of sadness and loss over Jack Layton & Steve Jobs and what each of them represented. As I noted at the…
The Politics Of Immortality
If we grant that aging is, like other pathological conditions, a matter of molecules out of place - though perhaps considerably more complex than "simple" and singular diseases like cancer…
Ezra Levant Is The Right’s Gift To The Left
Thanks, Ezra, for making right wing politics even more unappealing! Saw some coverage from the blogs Buckdog and Let Freedom Rain of the vile spectacle of a certain Ezra Levant…
A Sea Of Orange Hope
It's not fashionable to be earnest these days when irony and cynicism are the king and queen. But they've been deposed today at Roy Thompson Hall where there is a…
David Menzies Shows How Fast Racist Lies Travel The World
Racist code words and lies, Menzies is an excellent example of "objective journalism." I was sent an article this morning from August 5, written by a freelance journalist named David…
Jack Layton & Steve Jobs
I'm a tech nerd and a Mac Head, for sure. I have a Macbook Pro and an iPhone and we have an Apple TV. I'm almost embarrassed to say that…
Education Makes White People Dumb
You will eat, bye and bye,In that glorious land above the sky;Work and pray, live on hay,You'll get pie in the sky when you die- Joe Hill song This interesting…
I Owe Jack Layton $20,000
I've been a bit swamped with work in recent days and in my own world, so I was shocked to hear about the passing of Jack Layton. I must admit…
Research Suggests One Possible Cause Of Diabetes Epidemic
photo by my charming & talented wife, Kathryn Palmateer Just sayin...
Good Gaddafi, Hello NATO
There will be much celebrating across Libya over the next several days even as the mop-up operations get under way. Of course, there's no guarantee that this will be over…
"Karl Marx, it seems, was partly right…"
Well, there's something you only ever hear from economists when they're pooping their pants because the system is going in to meltdown. We heard it in the early 1990s and…
Riotous Double Standards
Some riots we like, some not so much - by Oliver Heinrich I've been swamped with work - and working on a longer post on science geek stuff that I…
Why Keeping Interest Low Won’t Save The Economy
As the old saying goes - expecting different results while repeating the same act over and over again is a sign of psychosis. That, however, has never stood in the…
More Capitalism vs Democracy
I was reading this article in Foreign Policy - a "debate" between two highly respected international economists, Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer when I came acros the two quotes below.…
I Heart Giorgio Mammoliti
It's not every day that a politician comes along who is so totally and completely ridiculous and juvenile, such a cartoon character, that they are a like a gift from…
Capitalism vs Democracy
This article in the Globe & Mail about the ongoing debt crisis in the USA and Europe caught my attention. Not because it offered any interesting or unique insight into…