Month: March 2013

March 14, 2013 0

Circling the Drain

By News Desk

Circling the Drain In the Atlantic a letter from Paul Alivisator, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Eric Isaacs, director of Argonne National Laboratory and Thom Mason, Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory Most of the talk about sequestration has focused on its immediate impacts — layoffs, furloughs, and cancelled White House tours in the days and weeks ahead. But one severe impact of the automatic spending cuts will only be felt years — or even decades — in the future, when the nation begins to feel the loss of important new scientific ideas that now will not be explored, and of brilliant young scientists who now will take their talents overseas or perhaps even abandon research entirely.

March 13, 2013 0

Sweden Officially in Deflation (As Measured by CPI)

By News Desk

Reader Kenneth from Stockholm, Sweden informs me that Sweden is Officially in Deflation . Current Inflation Rate In February 2013, CPI inflation (measured as the annual change in the consumer price index) stood at -0.2 per cent (-0.0 per cent in January 2013)

March 13, 2013 0

An Apology From Eli

By News Desk

An Apology From Eli For about a year, Eli has been saying that the UAH (and the RSS) software for decoding the (A)MSU data is not publically available.  To be honest the Rabett had expected that if it was available somebunny (Hi Lucia) would be churning away on it and others (Hi Steve) would be auditing and still others would be rewriting it in Python ( Hi Nick ) and they would have haruphed at Eli. Well, it turns out that a recent poke at this by Eli, brought a pointer to a place where this was mentioned three years ago, Dr. Christy and Dr.

March 13, 2013 0

Expression of the Day: "Ducks are Fat at the Back"

By News Desk

Expression of the Day: "Ducks are Fat at the Back" I was intrigued by a quote in the Financial Times by former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder who won a standing ovation when he returned to remind his supporters of their ancient triumphs. Schröder’s message for the party was to persevere in this year’s general election, with a real chance of beating chancellor Merkel’s centre-right coalition in the final weeks of the campaign. Schröder claimed Peer Steinbrück, the SPD candidate for chancellor, should stick to his guns in spite of trailing in the opinion polls.