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I'm not one to throw comments around on social media (or indeed spend much time on it at all) but this Statoil post (which appeared as a promoted link in my feed) drives me nuts. Seriously, a major oil company still trying to defend its…

This morning’s New York Times quote of the day makes me want to throw furniture: “Corporations are people, my friend.” said Mitt Romney, responding to a heckler in Iowa who wants higher corporate taxes. If corporations are indeed people then let’s subject them to the…

Here’s an excellent use of technology: Google has analysed the frequency of word use across all of the millions of books it has digitised over the past few years, and provided the means to query the results. The “Ngram Viewer” is a great way to…

I found the concept of “Peak Oil” confusing until my brother explained it to me, and since its implications are so profound I thought others might benefit from a quick overview. What is Peak Oil? Peak oil has nothing to do with the amount of oil…