Now it is just more of the same, regardless of who ultimately wins:
Lessig quits presidency bid, blames political system he wanted to change
See this for a good, succinct, explanation of the problem Lessig is trying to solve
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It's not enough to bash in heads, you have to bash in minds
If we are going to survive this century, we need to move away from decision-based evidence-making and truly make evidence-based decisions. Public access to publicly funded science would help ensure that the government relies on the facts, not on ideology. Science is too important to democracy to be kept in a government vault. -Elizabeth May
In this election, the most important issue facing Canada is not the economy, it isn’t deficits, and it is not conservative vs progressive values.
Physicists who want to protect traditional Christmas realize that the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it.
(via xkcd)
That is all.
At Seymour Norte island in the Galapagos Islands
Our last full day in the Galapagos ended with a swim with 4 curious young sea lions. It was all fun and games until the beachmaster showed up.
Paragliding at sunset one day and looking out over the Amazon the next.
… The blue footed variety of course
Physicists who want to protect traditional Christmas realize that the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it.
(via xkcd)
That is all.
Unsurprisingly XKCD nails it, but head on over there to read the mouseover text, I am sure it perfectly describes more than a few Planet3.0 readers (and writers!). And we wouldn’t want it any other way.
The recent approval of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline by National Energy Board and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act review panel has brought a renewed flurry of attention to the project.
From the bad-news department.
In Calgary, the Joint Review Panel today (December 19) recommended that the federal government approve the $6.5-billion project, which would transport oil from the Alberta tar sands across British Columbia to Asia, subject to 209 conditions.
Major Iceberg Cracks off Pine Island Glacier : Natural Hazards
Between November 9–11, 2013, a large iceberg finally separated from the calving front of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier. Scientists first detected a rift in the glacier in October 2011 during flights for NASA’s Operation IceBridge.
