I could watch this video billions of times.
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My colleagues have all heard of the Mad Biologist's Rule of Base Ten Numbers: when you see too many numbers that end with zero, become skeptical. That's because only one in ten numbers should do should end in zero.
US banks setting aside $70 billion for year end bonuses.
We conclude Bank of America is overgenerous and JP Morgan are cheap bastards.
from Grauniad:
Would sexier oceans get a bigger budget?
In 2006, the U.S. alone spent an estimated $13.3 billion on the sex and porn industry. Worldwide, it was estimated sex industry sales were $97 billion.
The Wall Street Journal reports an estimate of the economic impact of the Human Genome Project (italics mine):
Yeah. I hear ya'
Tom
BILLYUNS.
I wish I could have met the man.
The next best thing is listening to Neil deGrasse Tyson recall the time that he met the man.
My first father in law worked on a daily basis with Sagan's father in the Garment District, and of course he met the boy several times, and my advisor in grad school debated Sagan yearly while Sagan was at Harvard on the likelihood of "Intelligent Life" evolving elsewhere in the universe.
I know, obnoxious name dropping and not quite close enough. Best I could do.