Star Trek V: The Restaurant Enterprise – Saturday Night Live 1986
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The Massive Flood That Triggered an Ice Age (w/ PBS Eons!)
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Europe’s Fossil-Fuelled Future: Winter Wind & Solar Collapse Means Coal & Gas Here to Stay
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Just don’t expect power as and when you need it.
The zealots that pump up the future for wind and solar power are programed to ignore the present and bound to ignore the past.
For a few centuries in human history, windmills were the only game in town.
Then, in the 18th Century, the captains of British scientific and engineering endeavour harnessed thermal power, the Industrial Revolution followed, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Except that a deluded band of halfwits are determined to take us back to an age the developed world was happy to see the back of. One entirely dependent upon the weather.
Among their more fanciful claims, wind and sun worshippers assert that nature’s wonder fuels are already making an outstanding contribution to satisfying the world’s energy demands; and go further by gushing that a world run entirely on sunshine and breezes is not…
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Why Hat Making was Lethal
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in economic history, health and safety, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
Gangs in Control of American Prisons: “The Social Order of the Underworld”
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: crime and punishment, law and order
How Dangerous is Deep Space Travel to Mars and Beyond?
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How Jackson Pollock became so overrated
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