The blog Cornucopia has made an interesting comparison between the consumer price index (CPI), gross domestic production (GDP), and house price index in Sweden, which shows an alarming deviation of the indexes. Other posts show similar tendencies all over Europe.…
Great respect is earned when the loss of true geniuses are hailed even among adversaries. Steve Jobs passing is a huge loss to the modern technium, and Googles subtle tribute is admirable. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
It’s always dangerous when a trend becomes a truth in everyday peoples eyes. Suddenly something is a fact just because it has been the same way long enough. The SvD writer Andreas Cervenka brilliantly defines the dangerous transition from faith…
Due to the shortage of comprehensive online information on the mechanics behind the templates for the 3D cad software NX Unigraphics, this is an attempt to at least increase the number of explanatory efforts available in the marshes of the…
After half a century the worlds only oil fueled nuclear power plant is being dismantled. The construction of the Swedish nuclear power plant named Marviken was never deemed safe enough for nuclear fuel, and after the abortion of the project…
At long last the first cube emerges. A bit on the puny side, but who knows what will follow after it? One thing is certain. Without the accumulated knowledge from the reprap project, a thing like this would have taken…
Maybe the world would be a better place if not everybody were too occupied with the task of “keeping out the giraffes” from their life?
Theorizing about the universe can be quite mind boggling, mostly because the idea of infinity and eternity is quite hard to find substantial examples of in everyday life. Thankfully there exists people like the American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse that can…
When developing solutions to problems around us the prerequisites usually changes during the process as new facts and insights are acquired with time. The graduate adaption of a solution to handle upcoming changes in the basic setup might however lead…
Is this the beginning of the end for the global scale of prosperity, the GNP, in the developed countries around the world? Economics commissioner Tim Jackson discusses the issue of a system based continuous economic growth on a planet with…