Monthly Archives: November 2008

So it’s 7.5 trillion now. Do you feel bailed-out yet?

Just weeks after we were so concerned about 700 billion dollars in proposed bailouts, passed under threat of all kinds of dire consequences if we delayed, it looks like the number has now ballooned by 1,000% or so. My first … Continue reading

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The next book

It’s not quite finished yet on paper, but it’s all there in my head, so it shouldn’t be too much longer now. The title of the next book is Seven Seconds. It picks up about a year after CoD/MI ends. … Continue reading

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Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes

From the Guardian Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb. The … Continue reading

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Playstation .03

He was a founder (and the first chairman) of the Federation of American Scientists, but there’s a footnote in the distinguished career of physicist William Higinbotham. In a bid to make science exhibits more interesting and interactive, in 1958 he … Continue reading

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