Archive for June, 2006

June 4, 2006

Economics and demography

Closer than you think

by Alex Harrowell

Remember this post, about Sweden’s new year’s resolution to give up oil by 2020?
According to Jeremy Faludi at Worldchanging.com, it might not be as difficult as you think.
For example, currently, 6% of Europe’s electricity generation is from renewable sources. If they wanted it to be 100% by 2025, they should expand renewable energy generation by [...]

June 3, 2006

Europe and the world

Ursprache is German. And so is Weltschmerz.

by Tobias Schwarz

Well, gentle readers, here’s your occasional light Saturday post about transatlantic relations.
Should you or your children ever be interested in winning spelling bees, which, according to the Times Online, have enjoyed a recent explosion of popularity in the United States, choose words from obscure European languages, which, for some reason apparently made it into [...]

June 2, 2006

Misc

Eddie Campbell

by David Weman

Eddie Campbell interview in comics form.
He’s the greatest.

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Misc

Killer Workout

by David Weman

Do gyms breed terrorists?
The three cells appear to have had at least one thing in common, though—their members’ immersion in gym culture. Often, they met and bonded over a workout. If you’ll forgive the pun, they were fitness fanatics. Is there something about today’s preening and narcissistic gym culture that either nurtures terrorists or massages [...]

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