Totally free market approaches often don't work well for sectors where there are differing time lags in the various parts of the entire production chain. It is easy to see a situation were a marginal… (View Post)

Citizen science labs are quite a thing in the US. Mostly parents trying to get their kids a head start in STEM subjects, but quite a few amateur adult synthetic biologists. The community labs can giv… (View Post)

GDP = C + I + G i.e. consumption, investment and government spending. So it is well beyond value-added (or corporate profits/EBITDA). 100% of wages end up as one of those 3, as do investment income a… (View Post)

Hey man, nice shot, the song by Filter, alas is not about a hole in one of the golf course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E (View Post)

LOL. Someone recently sent me an article about electricity pylon research in the USA. Apparently, power distributors here have concluded that underground cable is not the solution to weather-related … (View Post)