There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
GK Chesterton
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
GK Chesterton
I don’t use facebook for many reasons, lack of time, lack of interest, lack of friends. But as I learn more about facebook’s dark under belly I am starting to wear is as a badge of honor; as a point of pride. Read this and worry.
Thomas Lifson writes that “the reckoning is coming.”
The cohorts of students headed for colleges and universities is declining, and tuition has now priced itself beyond reach for many. The folly of student loan indebtedness is becoming clear to more and more young people and their parents.
At the same time
[…] online higher education is available for a tiny fraction of the cost of physical presence on a campus[.]
He concludes
No doubt, those who celebrate this transition will be castigated as anti-intellectual barbarians. But the real barbarians are those who drove academia into self-absorbed obsessions of the left, making it irrelevant to the needs of students, while overloading their schools with administrative dead weight that has pushed up tuition to unaffordable levels.
All is proceeding as Glenn Reynolds predicted in his book.
Lithium is expensive and rare (a bit of redundancy there, I know). This carbon-based battery could be the holy grail for inexpensive and eco-friendly batteries.