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4th March 2010

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3rd March 2010

Photo reblogged from feltron with 28 notes

feltron:

From a recent Qantas flight… so comforting.

feltron:

From a recent Qantas flight… so comforting.

3rd March 2010

Quote with 1 note

A good session beer is a string quartet playing quietly, rather than The Messiah.

Tagged: beer

2nd March 2010

Photo reblogged from fang it with 687 notes

flandrea:


ilovecharts:

thedeepz:

robot-heart-politics:

abcsoupdot:joyshapes:

Why Americans don’t need the government telling them what to eat. This graph shows the US federal subsidies for food production over a decade ending in 2005. As we can see, there is a HUGE contrast between what the US federal government recommends and what they subsidise. According to the Federal Nutrition Recommendations, meat and dairy should comprise approximately 25% of our intake. So why do these industries receive a full 75% of subsidies? In stark contrast, we see that fruit and veg only get 0.37% of subsidies! The lower the subsidies, the higher the pricing as it costs more for the industry to produce. So is it any wonder the US have an obesity problem? The solution is not to tax junk food, it is to ELIMINATE SUBSIDIES and accordingly eliminate price controls. Incentives do a lot more good than penalties.
image seen in Good Medicine




I always wondered that. More recent and specific data would be good, though. 

flandrea:

ilovecharts:

thedeepz:

robot-heart-politics:

abcsoupdot:joyshapes:

Why Americans don’t need the government telling them what to eat. This graph shows the US federal subsidies for food production over a decade ending in 2005. As we can see, there is a HUGE contrast between what the US federal government recommends and what they subsidise. According to the Federal Nutrition Recommendations, meat and dairy should comprise approximately 25% of our intake. So why do these industries receive a full 75% of subsidies? In stark contrast, we see that fruit and veg only get 0.37% of subsidies!

The lower the subsidies, the higher the pricing as it costs more for the industry to produce. So is it any wonder the US have an obesity problem? The solution is not to tax junk food, it is to ELIMINATE SUBSIDIES and accordingly eliminate price controls. Incentives do a lot more good than penalties.

image seen in Good Medicine

I always wondered that. More recent and specific data would be good, though. 

28th February 2010

Link reblogged from wenna. pause.

http://www.hipsterwifehunting.com →

(via shockandjia)

Words escape me.

28th February 2010

Quote

Hookers die all the time; it comes with their line of work. The important thing is to stay calm and make sure that you clean everything up.

27th February 2010

Video

The British Museum - Clock Room

Felt a bit like I was in the Department of Mysteries…

27th February 2010

Link reblogged from The H is O

Lagrangian Points →

thehiso:

I’m a sucker for really cool astronomy concepts.  I was wondering how a satellite could capture constant images of the sun at one angle without its orbit interfering—BOOM, Lagrangian points.

Even more rad than geosynchronous orbit!

26th February 2010

Photo reblogged from the ch!cktionary with 1 note

lenachen:

One of my friends’ Twitter accounts has been infected with the most unfortunate spambot.

thehiso has been compromised!!

lenachen:

One of my friends’ Twitter accounts has been infected with the most unfortunate spambot.

thehiso has been compromised!!

26th February 2010

Photo with 2 notes

The Dangers of Computer-Generated Language

(as seen on amazon.com… makes me miss my cs51 pirate speak babbler)

The Dangers of Computer-Generated Language

(as seen on amazon.com… makes me miss my cs51 pirate speak babbler)

Tagged: amazon