Is Finland an Ally of Nazi Germany? – Carl Gustaf Mannerheim – WW2 Biography Special
23 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Finland, World War II
What is science?
23 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of education, Karl Popper Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
23 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
“Ought we to be drunk every night?” Sebastian asked one morning.
“Yes, I think so.”
“I think so too.”
(Charles and Sebastian as students discuss their drinking habits in Brideshead Revisited)
Brideshead Revisited is probably Evelyn Waugh’s most famous novel, simply because of the huge success of the 1981 ITV dramatisation. Which is ironic, because there’s a strong case for arguing that Brideshead is the least representative of Waugh’s works.
It’s also odd that it’s so popular, considering it amounts to a prolonged description of the destructive effects of alcoholism, the bitterness of adultery and infidelity, and a sustained account of one of the most dysfunctional families in literature.
Brideshead Revisited is divided into five sections: a short prologue (13 pages) and even shorter epilogue (6 pages) and 3 long central parts which each cover a distinct period in the characters’ lives. At 331 pages in the Penguin paperback…
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Double Dealing Wind Developer’s Dodgy Contracts Exposed
22 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
How do you know when a wind developer’s goon is lying to you? His lips are moving.
Riding roughshod over rural communities is just another day at the office for wind power outfits; lies, bullying and deceit are their tools of trade.
When these characters turn up and start spruiking tall tales about wonderful wind and the thousands of jobs that will soon emerge like mushrooms in a forest, it’s not long before community members wake up and move to a war footing.
Peaceful and prosperous rural communities, like Stanley on Tasmania’s north coast, are not prepared to become the wind industry’s next victims.
Adding to their long list of well justified grievances, is the fact that Epuron – the foreign owned outfit with plans to carpet their countryside with Chinese-made wind turbines – has been telling lies about the basis for land use option agreements being dangled in front…
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A “skewed” distribution: interconnecting intermittency
22 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
While creating the graph that I used in previous post, I noticed something that I expected for a long time. Remember, my graph was a recreation of this graph showing the sorted daily contribution of solar and wind in the Netherlands:
It shows that the lowest daily production of solar and wind between January 1 and November 16 was measured on November 16. When I was creating my graph depicting the Belgian sorted daily contribution, I found that the lowest production of solar and wind in Belgium over the same period was also November 16. That should not have come as a surprise, Belgium and the Netherlands are neighboring countries.
That November 16 date was not the only date that appeared in that original graph. Besides November 16 (lowest production) there are also July 29 (highest production) and August 2 (in between). That made me wonder whether those two other…
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