Infinite Monkey Theorems 20100215
February 15, 2010
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Posted by Michael S. Langston
- Never before seen aerial photos of 9/11
I think they show much more in terms of scope than most pictures I’ve seen so far @ UK Telegraph. Side note: It should not have required FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) to release these.
- Interesting research in solar cells @ Scientific American, “researchers [led by Harry A. Atwater] at Caltech say they’ve designed a device that gets comparable solar absorption while using just one percent of the silicon per unit area that current solar cells need.”
- Despite calls for greater transparency as recent as the State of the Union speech, the Feds still refuse FOIA requests to show how stimulus money was spent. @ The Conglomerate Now some may say the Fed isn’t the Whitehouse, but the law that was passed by both houses & signed by the President is the law in which the Feds are standing behind. If this isn’t challenged successfully in court, then any government action could be completely hidden from the citizens just by pushing the leg work to an executive agency.
- Krugman…. proving once again the Nobel Peace Prize is worth far less than imagined. Author Tim Cavanaugh via Reason.com
- Short, 5 minute video discussing school choice versus governmental monopolies. Isabel Santa via Cato.org
- John Stossel on our politicians using European social spending as the leading example (here), “Europe does have a bigger “social safety net.” But the gain comes with pain: Europe’s higher taxes and bigger government lead to slower job growth and higher unemployment. Politicians always claim that the safety-net will be limited to “necessities for the truly needy,” but such government programs always grow.”
- Greg Mackinaw show how President Obama’s agenda, grossly misnamed “A New Era of Responsibility”, will saddle US citizens with continuing and ever increasing deficits. This is according to the administration very own numbers. via NY Times proving once again that when a politician names a bill, the probability of the bill doing the exact opposite of its authors’ claims is directly proportional to how much the title of said bill attempts to imply those same claims.
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