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Unidentified woman with an important message…
Krulwich slept with a transistor radio under his pillow as a kid? What? Yeah.
Love this show.
Awesome.A sonic gallery from the New York Times Magazine lets you play with 9 Radiolab sound effects.
Apparently concerned that tax credits that won’t take effect until some hypothetical future budget-balancing occurs were too concrete, Harper is now promising to keep not doing things that the government already wasn’t doing beforehand. (via defeatist)
Not entirely true: David Pugliese from Postmedia has been reporting on the possibility of a transferring command of the Pacific fleet from Esquimalt to Halifax. This would be an odd way to celebrate 100 years of the Royal Canadian Navy - Esquimalt and Halifax were the first two bases in 1911.
Fairly accurate depiction of almost all political discourse in North America right now?
If only the truth were so simple…
Wait a second, I’m not the defeatist…
“There’s no reason why, technologically, we can’t employ nuclear energy in a safe and effective way. Japan does it…”
— Barack Obama, speaking at a town-hall meeting in 2009. Read more in Kate Sheppard’s story, “Obama Touted Safety Record of Japan’s Nuclear Industry.”
Far by it for me to defend the president of the United States, but that was a reasonable statement. The plant is holding up well considering it was designed to withstand an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.2. The difference between 8.2 and 8.9 on the Richter scale is logarithmic (exponential). So the .7 isn’t as small a difference as it looks.
All things considered, he may want to revisit that thought.
