I got an email asking how to calculate the distance between two points on a map. With modern computers and a simple formula that uses a bit of trigonometry it can be easily done.
Journalist Nathaniel Rich talks about the missed opportunities in our recent history that could've halted or slowed climate change. Rich says that from 1979 until 1989, climate change was viewed as a bipartisan problem — then the the oil industry "descended and bared its fangs" and everything changed. His new book is 'Losing Earth.'
This is a very fascinating interview on Fresh Air tiday, very much worth listening to.
For example, setting speed limits or regulations on consumer products. How many lives will be taken, how many will be saved? Or the impact of increased or decreased law enforcement. How many lives are increases to law enforcement expected to save, how many will take, justifiable or otherwise? How many lives will be taken by the repeal of the American Healthcare Act? How many lives will end because of the tax policy?
Every decision by government leads to the taking of a certain number of human lives, but it should be a good public policy to control the amount of life taken by government to force government to justify it’s killing.
When inventor Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1. They wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.
Today, Banting and colleagues would be spinning in their graves: Their drug, which many of the 30 million Americans with diabetes rely on, has become the poster child for pharmaceutical price gouging.
This is the brake switch I need to pick up this week to install on my truck during the weekend. I am hoping the General's parts department will have it when I go up there, if not it seems like Advanced Auto either will have the part or an generic.