Japan - it’s been 20 years since I lived there and I really want to go back.
Yikes! 29% of US believes climate change is either a hoax or not a significant concern (via NY Times)
A survey conducted in late December by Yale University and George Mason University found that the number of Americans who believed that climate change was a hoax or scientific conspiracy had more than doubled since 2008, to 16 percent of the population from 7 percent. An additional 13 percent of Americans said they thought that even if the planet was warming, it was a result solely of natural factors and was not a significant concern.
Technology Review: What’s Wrong with Venture Capital?
After all, even though venture investors undoubtedly put too much money into me-too software companies and clean-tech firms that never panned out, would we really have preferred that money to have gone into some bank’s collateralized debt obligation instead?
Good article on the state of the VC industry and why it matters to anyone who is not a VC.
What 1835 Chile quake taught Darwin - CNN.com
Not only did he collect widespread evidence of the uplift of the coast during the earthquake, but traveling inland and into the mountains, he discovered a series of remains of marine shells — proof that the shifting that had recently uplifted the coast by a small amount had occurred over and over in the recent geological past.
The experience convinced him that the great geologist Charles Lyell was right — mountain chains were not created by sudden immense catastrophes, but grew almost imperceptibly, the product of thousands of successive uplifts over almost endless geological time.
Balsa glider birthday party
via s3.amazonaws.com
When my kids get hyper I tell them I want to put them on something like this. Wish I knew where to find it for real.
