August 30th, 2009 by drs
#tech #dental I wonder if my brother, who is a dentist, ever thinks about what is going through the minds of his patients as he drills. Here’s and example of what one person was thinking about.
Video description: Physicist Richard Feynman visits the dentist and wonders about the amazing phenomenon of electricity… From the BBC TV series ‘Fun to Imagine’(1983)
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August 15th, 2009 by drs
About the film:
From the Wikipedia article The Great Global Warming Swindle
The film’s basic premise is that the current scientific consensus on the anthropogenic causes of global warming has numerous scientific flaws, and that vested monetary interests in the scientific establishment and the media discourage the public and the scientific community from acknowledging or even debating this. The film asserts that the publicised scientific consensus is the product of a “global warming activist industry” driven by a desire for research funding. Other culprits, according to the film, are Western environmentalists promoting expensive solar and wind power over cheap fossil fuels in Africa, resulting in African countries being held back from industrialising.
A number of academics, environmentalists, think-tank consultants and writers are interviewed in the film in support of its various assertions. They include the Canadian environmentalist Patrick Moore, founding member of Greenpeace but for the past 21 years a critic of the organisation; Richard Lindzen, professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Patrick Michaels, Research Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia; Nigel Calder, editor of New Scientist from 1962 to 1966; John Christy, professor and director of the Earth System Science Center at University of Alabama; Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute; the former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson; and Piers Corbyn, a British weather forecaster.
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June 24th, 2009 by drs
#tcot #tlot Call your congressman (202-224-3121) about HR2454
Let them know you are against another oppressive tax, especially in the midst of a deep recession! The Energy Tax bill (HR2454) goes to the floor for a vote on Friday (June 26th).
March 9th, 09 on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” billionaire investor and prominent Obama supporter Warren Buffett slammed the administrations proposed $646 billion carbon tax known as cap and trade as a regressive tax that customers are going to pay for.
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