Sunspots, the Market & the Price of Cornflakes.
In 1801, the eminent British astronomer William Herschel reported that when sunspots dotted the sun’s surface, grain prices fell. When sunspots waned, prices rose. He suggested that shifts in grain...
View ArticleThe Mercurial Age
Mercury : Hermes : Thoth U.S nickel, 1941 Mercury [Latin: Mercurius] was a messenger who wore winged sandals; a god of trade, abundance, thieves, and travel. His name is related to the Latin word merx...
View ArticleLDV @ 560
Leonardo da Vinci: born April 15th 1452 “I know that many will call this useless work; men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of wisdom, which is the food and only true...
View ArticleBabel Revisited
In 1992 the EU published this poster, to celebrate their new Parliament building in Strasbourg: It was very quickly buried as a large number of people were very very upset. In it, the ‘blockheaded’...
View ArticlePerplicatus
The first two paragraphs of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus becomes this via Google translate into Latin: Heraclitus Ephesius (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος-Hērákleitos ho Ephésios; c....
View ArticleThe 21st of Never
By Motm Yes the date is 12/21/12 — December 21st 2012 We are here waiting for something good to happen! I joke of course — Unfortunately in bad taste. But even I -an eternal optimist- must now admit to...
View ArticleFracking Realism
by Motm Solar is shot in the dark and wind is being blown away, so what does that leave us? 75% of the population are voting for unconventional gas leaving the remaining 25% comprising Lib Dems, Greens...
View ArticleAnother Omni Shambles
By Motm But don’t worry those who missed it there will be another two along in a moment! I am of course referring to the very recent police commissar elections, the biggest non-election it seems in...
View ArticleLENR – Be careful what we wish for!
By Motm I placed my order in the Andrea Rossi queue a very ling time ago and the hoped for date of Autumn 2012 is now passed and my interest and anticipation of any form of success has reached a low...
View ArticleWater – Natures Unique Gift
by Motm But of course sometimes we can have too much, in the shape of the current recent floods, much property and belongings affected with insurance companies anxious to preserve profits, whilst...
View ArticleProduct Entropy
Red diesel isn’t what it was, anyone working farm machinery these days will tell you so. A loaf of real bread -as opposed to the standard supermarket muck- will cost you almost double. Over the course...
View ArticleThe Missing Third
Electrical Energy — Where is the missing 30%? By Motm This week has been a busy week for our misguided energy decisions and was blessed with a DECC Energy Bill set out here with numerous .pdf’s linked...
View ArticleFor Remote Posterity
In the ‘end times’, a select band of people tried to save what little they could of the world they knew, for fear that it was about to be lost. By mid-20th century it was the fear of an impending...
View ArticleGlobal Data Volume
“In 2012, the world generated and replicated about 2.8 zettabytes (ZB) of data. The “digital universe” is forecast to reach 40 ZB by 2020, up from previous estimates of just 5 ZB. According to IDC, the...
View ArticleTime’s Arrow
We are mortal beings. Our lives are linear and each of us have had a beginning and will have an end. Because of this, we -in the west- tend to interpret the world in the same way; we assume the...
View Article$20 Trillion in shale found down under
In Sterling, that’s a cool £13 trillion. Brisbane company Linc Energy yesterday released two reports, based on drilling and seismic exploration, estimating the amount of oil in the as yet untapped...
View ArticleDateline 2060
By Motm Dateline 2060: Kuril Islands Volcano — An occasional Future On March 1st 2060 the broadcast information service announced the sudden arrival of an earthquake strength in excess of 7.5 and for...
View ArticleKnow Thy Enemy
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” John Maynard Keynes Almost to a man, the four main parties in UK politics -Lib Lab Con SNP- all repeat the following mantra with little...
View ArticlePeter Lilley MP: the Voice of Sanity
Westminster Hall Thursday 18 April 2013 [Mr Andrew Turner in the Chair] Hansard debate UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ‘Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. One of the...
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