How did Ben move that Island anyway?
Followed this link to an article by Richard Muller on Popular Mechanics.
Followed this link to an article by Richard Muller on Popular Mechanics.
In the NFL, there are only two possible outcomes when you win the first 18 contests of the year. You win the last game, finish with a perfect season as champions, repeating a feat that has been accomplished only once in the history of the NFL (though the season was 17 games long then). 19-0.
Or you lose the last game, with a record of 18-1 and go home, wondering about that 1 game that got away. It sure feels better to end the season 0-16.
What does an 18-1 season sound like, you ask? Quiet as a pin drop. My otherwise garrulous 7 year old whose entire footballing memory consists of ‘and the Patriots win again’ was speechless for the first time I can remember. I hear the clackety clack of the keyboard from the next room (no I tell myself, the office isn’t any quieter today), and I swear I hear the distant roar of laughter from not so distant New York and perhaps the rest of the country.
Life goes on. It’s just a game. There’s always next year. 18-1 must be better than 0-16.
But, why does it hurt so?
Nice article on ‘repugnance constraint’ markets - how moral repugnance may constrain a free market and if/what should be done about it. Very interesting to me was the reference to a paper [pdf] that I tracked down. It estimates the price at which the kidney wait backlog would be eliminated if live donors were allowed to be paid (see pages 11, 12). This is for the US, and the value they come up with is $15,200 per donor. Among other things, they take into account the value of a ’statitistical life’ ($1.5 million to $10 million for an average annual income of $35000), lost wages pre/post operation, risk of death, etc.
They did not have a good way to quantify loss of quality of life (they added an arbitrary $7,500), and they did not as far as I could see, take into account the ‘repugnance factor’ of paying for an organ. Not much comfort I’m sure for all those people who are waiting for a transplant.
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A view from space (courtesy NASA)
For the image (and others) in hi-def see here
If Venezuelan officials have their way, children will no longer have to endure their parent’s idea of what makes a good name. In the case of Venezuela, the names that we bid adieu to would be the likes of Hengelberth, Maolenin, Kerbert Krishnamerk, Githanjaly, Yornaichel, Nixon and Yurbiladyberth. Except for a “list of 100 names established by the government, with exemptions for Indians and foreigners,” all other names would be out of bounds. The goal would be to
preserve the equilibrium and integral development of the child” by preventing parents from giving newborns names that expose them to ridicule or are “extravagant or hard to pronounce in the official language,
A singing sensation not quite in the footsteps of Sanjaya from a British talent show.
I bet not smarter than this crow. Video probably pirated care of youtube.
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