Chernobyl, the worst nuclear disaster in history: ~60 dead, and 4000 more affected by cancer. [The Chernobyl Forum] concluded that a greater risk than the long-term effects of radiation exposure is the risk to mental health of exaggerated fears about the effects of radiation."If nuclear power is the least safe, most dangerous, power source on the ( Read more... )

So for my sins I'm learning some PHP. Enough to create a custom theme for the Next Big Thing that Hilary and I are working on ( Read more... )

Saturday: awesome hike on the American side of Wellesly Island with my friend Liz, a trip which also included bagging some of the ever-elusive American stamps. We saw porcupine, many, many deer, chipmunk, robin, redwing blackbirds and heard geese fly by. Awesome day in the sunshine.

Sunday: wrote about the future of nuclear power and put the ( Read more... )

It turns out when you have the actual facts rather than a few cherry-picked abstractions, the conditional sentence for convicted rapist Kenneth Rhodes doesn't look like an insanely incomprehensible assault on decency, but rather a progressive judge in possession of the full facts of the case doing their job ( Read more... )

I have been trying to buy American stamps. Don't worry about why. I have my reasons and they are excellent reasons. Nothing else will do. I need American stamps ( Read more... )

The fun thing about the practice of statistical investing is it proves without question that a) God exists and b) he fucking hates me ( Read more... )

What if linguists have it all wrong ( Read more... )

Harper government argues it does not have any obligation to protect people engaged in a perfectly legal activity.On the basis of this argument the Harper government may as well dismantle all workplace safety rules for all Canadian workers. After all, when a nurse gets stuck by a contaminated needle the fundamental problem is that she has chosen to ( Read more... )

Milliken said the right of Parliament to call for documents is absolute and without limit. He said a "cursory examination" of the material tabled by the government showed all the information ordered by committee had not been provided ( Read more... )

An article I happened across. Things were different 30 or 40 years ago ( Read more... )