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Thursday, July 20, 2006
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} When decision-makers don't understand the decisions -- Comment()
Congress' Top 10 Stem Cell Flubs: "Sometimes legislators make stuff up when they're not sure about the facts -- especially when it comes to complicated science like stem cell research." [Wired News: Top Stories]
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How happy is your country? -- Comment()
The Happy Planet Index: "We are accustomed to comparing countries in terms of crude riches or what they trade. Some countries earn, or are given, reputations for music, sporting excellence, food, or as holiday destinations. There are international league tables for performance on a range of issues from corruption to football. This website introduces a measure of something more fundamental. [...] The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an innovative new measure that shows the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered."
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Inside Body Shop: "What the shop assistant thought I was looking for: her. What I was looking for: the men's toiletries shelf. What I found: a shop assistant blocking the way to the men's toiletries shelf and redirecting me somewhere else. What the shop assistant wanted this to be like: lucrative." [The Aardvark Speaks]
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Cheaper insulin -- Comment()
Calgary firm turns safflower into insulin: "In a breakthrough that could rival the discovery of insulin by Canadians Frederick Banting and Charles Best in 1921, a Calgary biotech company claims to have produced commercial quantities of human insulin from genetically modified safflower plants, a move that could change the economics of the diabetes market."
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Survey of the Blogosphere Finds 12 Million Voices: "A mostly young, racially diverse group of people, bloggers use the Web as an echoless chamber for their personal stories." [NYT > Technology]
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Macs are hot (as in selling well) -- Comment()
Gartner: Apple sees 15.4 percent in year-over-year Mac sales: "Driven by price cuts, worldwide computer shipments totaled 54.9 million units in the second quarter of 2006, an 11 percent increase from the same period last year, according to preliminary results by the Gartner. And Apple was, well, smokin[base '], seeing 15.4 percent growth in sales from the second quarter of 2005 to the second quarter of 2006." This is great for Apple, especially in contrast to the market anxiety just before Apple published the earnings figures. But can Apple sustain the growth? Although Vista is much delayed, it probably will drive up the demand for PCs during the next 12 months. On the other hand, many hard-core PC users I know have started talking about Macs like never before - in fact they seem to know more about the Intel-based Macs than I do.
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