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Getting perspective on CO2 emissions
I’ve just put up a tool at YouSustain called How Much CO2 Is That?, which I think is pretty neat.  You can enter (or pick) an amount of CO2 emissions and it will show you how much of lots of other activities/things would generate that much. One of my favourites, that’s still blowing my mind, [...]
5 iPhones a second
The world is buzzing with news of Apple’s most recent incredible quarterly earnings and profit.  Their profit was $13 billion on revenue of $46 billion. Also staggering was the number of iPhones sold in 3 months: 37 million.  I thought it’d be interesting to see how that number broke down.  Assuming uniformly distributed sales volume [...]
Bob Rae for the Liberal Leadership
I’ve never understood why there was a supposed agreement that Rae wouldn’t run for the leadership.  Doesn’t that seem a bit un-democratic?  I have no idea if him running would be a good thing, but if he ran and won, who should argue with that?