tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156840182024-03-05T20:01:15.594-07:00obiterdictaKenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-68413352537839938082023-04-16T17:55:00.001-06:002023-04-17T02:50:43.151-06:00More on ANA's Boarding MusicThe boarding music used by All Nippon Airways (ANA), a Japanese airline, is a well-known and distinctive piece of music that has been played before takeoff on ANA flights for many years. The piece is called "Takarajima," which means "Treasure Island" in Japanese. It was composed by Japanese musician and composer Taro Hakase specifically for ANA."Takarajima" is a lively and upbeat piece of music Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-38746589124455136512023-04-16T17:42:00.003-06:002023-04-16T17:44:02.753-06:00Why Do Belgian Beers Come in 11.2 oz/330 ml Containers?Belgian beers are often bottled in 11.2 oz (330 ml) bottles due to historical reasons and the preference of Belgian brewers. This size is unique to Belgium and is not commonly used in other countries.One reason for the use of 11.2 oz bottles is related to the history of beer production in Belgium. In the early 20th century, Belgium had a large number of small breweries, and beer was often sold inKenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-88249296079594387022021-12-23T07:25:00.001-07:002021-12-23T07:25:08.283-07:00 Ten Essential Things to Know About ListiclesThat they are a click-baiters dream come true.That they force the author of the listicle to come up with whatever random thoughts or ideas in order to meet the number of items they promised.That despite their promise for easy and fast information, context is still king and you really should do your research.That despite list item 2, I am seriously debating just stopping the list here.That I couldKenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-40143602465339218402018-10-21T08:53:00.003-06:002018-10-21T08:53:55.043-06:00All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boarding Music to the Wind
OK, I cannot be the only one to hear "Tara's Theme" from "Gone with the Wind" in ANA's boarding music.
Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-76700444453036402692017-05-07T16:43:00.003-06:002017-05-07T16:52:45.228-06:00Podcast Favorites: In Our Time: Orwell's Animal Farm
On this great podcast episode of "In Our Time" (yes, BBC4) the host (Melvyn Bragg) and guests have a very interesting discussion about the book "Animal Farm", and its allegorical meaning, particularly in the time it was written (1944). Discussions give very interesting look into Orwell as a person as well as search out how well Orwell "got it right" with respect to "the Old Left". Highly Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-23308517587454412642013-01-19T19:13:00.000-07:002017-05-07T16:54:40.439-06:00"Up-side" Risk & Development
Brainstorm on "up-side risks" and development economics
"The only ignorant question is the one not asked"
Disclaimer
As (I hope will not be too) apparent to anyone with a some level of economics or statistical education, this is not my primary area of work - yet to open the bridges between siloed disciplines (aka interdisciplinary work) we must start walking Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-14092126753254580752008-09-14T13:58:00.001-06:002008-09-14T13:58:53.661-06:00What McCain campaign wants you to thinkWhat McCain campaign wants you to think about:PalinLipstick on a pigFearTerrorWarCulture warsObama's funny nameBridges to nowhere (supported or otherwise)Airplanes on ebay (not personally places there or otherwise)What they don't want you to think about:The economyKenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02466274600158538830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-41600861864985320192008-08-15T06:26:00.001-06:002008-08-15T06:27:34.413-06:00InsightThere was some great insight I had on waking up this morning that I cannot recall at all. It is quite funny how that happens. I am having a brilliant insight and then like it never happened - poof. Reminds me of smoking pot. Great insights - all meaningless. I know... I'm getting older (that is of course humordamnit) It's funny, I just read that the American women took the gold and silver in Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-60244823072028712062008-06-07T05:32:00.001-06:002008-06-07T05:32:26.482-06:00Recent climate articles - may (never) readHere are a couple of potentially interesting articles. Not sure if I'll get a chance to read them anytime soon though.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 35, L11701, doi:10.1029/2008GL033273, 2008 http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2008GL033273.shtmlIs the observed NAO variability during the instrumental Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-41366584029772106612008-04-23T20:16:00.001-06:002008-04-23T20:16:38.280-06:0020 Things The Millionaire Next Door Does NOT Do Stop thinking of money as stuff, as friends, as escape. Start thinking of it as storage for your future needs especially as a buffer in emergencies. <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:0E4733DA-4B19-45E9-8B0C-48DDCB6A9A19:1 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from www.marcandangel.comPay for Lawn ServiceGo to a Hair StylistUse Time as a Measurement for SuccessBuy Brand New CarsCarry a Monthly Credit Card Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-91790595086483057942008-01-27T15:16:00.001-07:002008-01-27T15:16:31.690-07:00Program Yourself this is cRaZy! (in chris tucker's voice) <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:6EEDB4C6-A007-4B44-BEFB-1A835BADE41A:1 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from www.youtube.com<!-- END_CLIP_CONTENT --> Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02466274600158538830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-74066552512956277252007-11-02T09:41:00.001-06:002007-11-02T09:41:53.697-06:00its like a hard driveJoe: They can fail catastrophically. Bob: What can? Joe: Hard drives. Bob: Funny that. Joe: What’s that? Bob: That something called a hard drive can fail catastrophically. I mean if it’s so hard... Joe: Not surprising to me. Bob: Why is that? Joe: Well if you look in nature you will find that the more rigid something is the more likely it will fail Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-30343802551471283302007-10-19T15:03:00.001-06:002007-10-19T15:03:37.477-06:00Subprime Meltdown Gretchen Morgenson has some interesting things to say about Greenspan. <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:52876563-9693-45FE-975C-1E0211A040AC:1 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from www.npr.orgFresh Air from WHYY, October 10, 2007 · Pulitzer Prize-winning business columnist Gretchen Morgenson talks about the subprime mortgage crisis and its effects on the markets and on the economy. Morgenson, an assistant Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-88027380714112979282007-10-19T14:59:00.001-06:002007-10-19T14:59:43.581-06:00What Killed the Mammoth What led to the late Pleistocene extinction of North American Megafauna? The old theory was hunting by the newly arrived human population. But now... <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:5E08FB37-23B0-4E50-9E3B-0EF436F75009:1 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from www.sciencefriday.comOne team of scientists thinks it knows what killed the woolly mammoth and other ice-age creatures. In a paper published this weekKenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-5604373261589852422007-10-19T14:54:00.001-06:002007-10-19T14:54:34.096-06:00Winning the Cancer War <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:6912ED0B-533C-4146-8234-389E5F0902E6:1 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from www.sciencefriday.comIn this segment, Ira talks with cancer researcher Robert Weinberg about what he calls the last frontier of cancer research. Weinberg has been instrumental in studies of oncogenes, genes that can spark the rapid cell multiplication associated with cancerous tumors. Now, in two Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-64063762760010926272007-10-19T14:52:00.001-06:002007-10-19T14:52:30.257-06:00Biotech: Printing Living Cells <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:06C985DC-1B14-4264-8236-68D38DC78C93:1 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from www.sciencefriday.comIn this segment, we'll look at new research into using inkjet technology to build artificial tissues. Writing in the journal Science, Paul Calvert describes efforts to convert the common home office technology of inkjet printing to manipulate living cells. Using printing Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-12375754530238519582007-10-04T19:33:00.001-06:002007-10-04T19:33:42.730-06:00"God has something to say to you!" <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:7BC0DFBD-5FBB-44BB-B308-EDAB281B6F41:1 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from scienceblogs.comGod has something to say to you!<!-- END_CLIP_CONTENT --> Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-64743765560556272652007-09-21T05:31:00.001-06:002007-09-21T05:31:31.830-06:00Health: Reduce High-glycaemic food intake <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:70FD0633-16AB-47F7-A6E5-5BE6991E7896:1 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from news.bbc.co.ukA diet rich in potatoes, white bread and white rice may be contributing to a "silent epidemic" of a dangerous liver condition."High-glycaemic" foods - rapidly digested by the body - could be causing "fatty liver", increasing the risk of serious illness.The study, carried out at Boston Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-74346972092594016992007-09-15T14:42:00.001-06:002007-09-15T14:42:12.863-06:00NASA: Near Earth Object Program <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:7448CB3D-F510-44CA-AC1B-AD040CA91CB1:1 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from neo.jpl.nasa.govThe following table lists potential future Earth impact events thatthe JPL Sentry System has detected based on currently availableobservations. Click on the object designation to go to apage with full details on that object.Recently Observed Objects(within past 60 days)Object Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02466274600158538830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-39980278921762914912007-09-15T06:49:00.001-06:002007-09-15T06:49:59.857-06:00Greenspan: Clinton Good, Bush Bad <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:EC388797-DC47-4F48-A38E-B4655A75D8F1:1 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from www.washingtonpost.comAlan Greenspan, who served as Federal Reserve chairman for 18 years and was the leading Republican economist for the past three decades, levels unusually harsh criticism at President Bush and the Republican Party in his new book, arguing that Bush abandoned the central Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02466274600158538830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-68829328551014695662007-08-26T04:40:00.001-06:002007-08-26T04:40:31.346-06:00NYC: Scooters a congestion solution? <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:4954793C-87BB-44BB-B639-F3CC4D50452F:1 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Scooter riders say the small but sometimes noisy vehicles are the best answer to a dreary subway commute or, even better, to the traffic congestion that chokes New York streets."But it's fun, I'm outside, it's great and quicker than being stuck in a traffic jam.""Think of the money I'mKenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-29732933175218046402007-08-26T04:27:00.001-06:002007-08-26T04:27:09.565-06:00China: Environmental Cost of Rapid Growth Grim.Pollution has made cancer China’s leading cause of death, the Ministry of Health says. Ambient air pollution alone is blamed for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. Nearly 500 million people lack access to safe drinking water.Environmental woes that might be considered catastrophic in some countries can seem commonplace in China: industrial cities where people rarely see the sun; Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-25433572242853783562007-08-26T04:15:00.001-06:002007-08-26T04:15:37.838-06:00Drop Foreseen in Median Price of U.S. Homes <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:252894BE-722D-410C-B865-A86A14DC517B:1 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from www.nytimes.comThe median price of American homes is expected to fall this year for the first time since federal housing agencies began keeping statistics in 1950. <!-- END_CLIP_CONTENT --> Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-56183232623758740582007-08-05T15:01:00.001-06:002007-08-05T15:01:30.576-06:00Getting Shrill? Clinton? Obama? Edwards?Nope, Newt Gingrich <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:BADD19E0-46FC-445B-963B-23F7A08867BB:1 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from talkingpointsmemo.com"We're about to enter the seventh year of this phony war...and we're losing.""How can we tolerate systems more likely to send young Americans to prison than college?""Republicans have this maniacally dumb idea of Red versus Blue. They Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02466274600158538830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15684018.post-53246329133127562602007-08-03T10:54:00.001-06:002007-08-03T10:56:58.270-06:00Failed Bridges & Failed PresidentsWhat link is there between the two bridges in the pictures above? The one on the top is the bridge that crosses the Mississippi in Minneapolis that suddenly collapsed, the other is a bridge that crosses the Tigris in Baghdad. What is the link you ask? Failure of leadership is the link. Our government is going heavily into debt yet that debt isn't even being spent on "capital", on the Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12496785521366545974noreply@blogger.com0