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Reducing Oil Consumption
The New York Time had a big article on Sunday on missed opportunities to cut oil consumption. The article covers various ideas, but it focuses on automobile fuel standards. I think that is a mistake. I do think that the automobile fuel standards should be higher. Historically the American car companies have argued against this,…
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Two Problems
We are most likely facing two significant problems in this century. The first is climate change due to increased greenhouse gases. The second is the loss of our major energy source due to oil depletion. I think it’s interesting that solving one problem is likely to solve the other one at the same time. The…
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Canadian Book Prices
When I was young, U.S. books sold in Canada for the U.S. price, paid in Canadian dollars, and stores in tourist spots in Maine would take Canadian dollars as equivalent to U.S. dollars. Then the Canadian dollar started to sink against the U.S. dollar. Stores started putting up signs saying that they took the Canadian…
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Science Museums
I’m back from vacation following the GCC summit. Since I was on vacation, I wonder: why are science and technology museums so often aimed at children, and art museums so often not? It’s as though science is naturally presented as educational, whereas art is something you simply appreciate. To me it would seem more natural…
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GCC Summit
I’m at the GCC Summit in Ottawa, and short on time. I gave a double presentation today, on gold (slides) and on writing gcc in C++ (slides).