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Daily Archive for November 6th, 2014

Farmers Do Not Get Up at 3am to Break Ice Because They Love YOU

Posted in Entrepreneurs, ethical foundations, Flotsam and Jetsam, Fun Facts on Nov 6th, 2014

Rest in peace S. Donald Stookey: In 1952, he placed a plate of glass into an oven to heat it, but the oven malfunctioned. Instead of heating to about 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit, the oven shot up to more than 1,600 degrees. Stookey expected to find a molten mess. Instead, he found an opaque, milky-white plate. […]

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Synthesize This

Posted in Central Planning, Corporatism, Disingenuous, incentives, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Nov 6th, 2014

In the news earlier this week was the release of the IPCC Synthesis Report. The newsworthiness of the release is rather hilarious given that it is simply a synthesis of reports that the IPCC has been releasing over the past year. This is a great boon to the news industry – since they get to […]

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