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Lab-Grown Meat 23 Aug 2013 | 10:04 pm
Meat is an interesting and contentious meal choice. I’m personally a vegetarian, but a lacto-ovo one. I don’t have any particularly strong moral objections to using animals for human purposes: though ...
Macro Investing 22 Aug 2013 | 09:06 am
Netbug asked how to invest in lab-grown meat (as well as a number of other emerging trends). I think that top-down investing is very difficult to do. You can be right overall, but so many factors can ...
WHO Poisoning in Europe 14 Aug 2013 | 08:53 am
Was just reading a WHO report today (as one does) when I came across this graph on the global burden of disease — external causes: WTF is happening in Europe? For most places “poisoning” is a tiny li...
The Cherry Coke Zero Project 9 Aug 2013 | 11:21 am
I’ve written a lot about personal finance, investing, and saving lately. I’ve joined or led letter-writing campaigns for tax sanity, landlord-tenant reform, and internet competition’s usage-based-bill...
Robots and Other Pedants 7 Aug 2013 | 08:30 am
“What happened to the towel?” “I used it every day for a week and a half and then it didn’t come fully dry. Now I have a new towel.” “Yes… but it was in a ball in the bathroom and now it’s gone. Whe...
The Importance of Socks to the US Economy 2 Aug 2013 | 06:11 am
When searching for industry data reports for a project I saw one on socks and couldn’t help but download it. “Clothing and textiles” too broad for you? Well, you’re in luck my dear, as the US Census ...
The Impossible Home Capital Group 26 Jul 2013 | 05:12 pm
Home Capital Group (TSE:HCG) is an interesting company that draws very polarized views. On the one hand, there are a great many people out there who love it without digging any further into it than “i...
Rounding: You’re Doing It Wrong 24 Jul 2013 | 06:34 am
In our most recent hydro bill, we received one of those little propaganda pamphlets explaining why our electricity bill has to go up again. In it is this little statement: “For most Canadian househol...
Little Known Facts About Calories Part 2 23 Jul 2013 | 09:09 am
Continued from yesterday… Calories are loyal. If someone buys a meal, the calories in the food belong to them. If you try to steal a bite, the calories will run away from that bite and stay with the ...
Little Known Facts About Calories Part 1 21 Jul 2013 | 08:59 am
Calories are little things that live in food. They’re tasty and give your body energy. Things without any calories aren’t really food at all. In small amounts, calories are great things. Trouble arise...
