Author Archives: ErgoOne

Bahrain: The Scoop

Posted on February 18, 2011 by ErgoOne

Mother Jones Magazine (yes, that’s right — the old time leftist labor publication) has done it again: published a superb backgrounder on events in Bahrain along the same lines as earlier articles on the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt.   I’m … Continue reading →

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Two El Baradei Tweets

Posted on February 18, 2011 by ErgoOne

Among a few other accomplishments ;), former IAEC head Mohamed El Baradei has figured out social media, sending regular messages from Twitter to his 70 thousand plus followers.  El Baradei is Egyptian, and after many years in exile returned home … Continue reading →

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Enceladus Seen From Orbit

Posted on February 18, 2011 by ErgoOne

The Cassini spacecraft took some absolutely stunning photographs of Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth largest moon, on January 31.  I’ve been busy, and just got around to looking at them today.

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Umair Haque to Business: Cut the Cr*p

Posted on February 14, 2011 by ErgoOne

I want to introduce somebody to my readers today: a London School of Economics graduate named Umair Haque.   A few years after college, he left the business world and became what some call a “radical economist”. He started Bubblegeneration, … Continue reading →

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Kodak Shoots Itself in the Foot

Posted on February 14, 2011 by ErgoOne

Romer (Hanov3r) , a long-time anti-spammer acquaintance, blogged today about a breathtakingly arrogant, and frankly stupid, action by Kodak Corporation.  Some years ago he gave the Kodak Gallery, a photograph posting site, his email address for some purpose that he … Continue reading →

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Egypt: The Costs of Winning

Posted on February 13, 2011 by ErgoOne

In the rush of wonderful news from Egypt are a few stories that are not so good.  First, some opportunistic thieves took advantage of the chaos to steal irreplaceable treasures from the Egyptian museum.  Second, Egypt depends upon tourism for … Continue reading →

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Egypt :) :) :) :) :)

Posted on February 13, 2011 by ErgoOne

Way to go, people of Egypt!  Just… way to go! “First they ignore you.  Then they laugh at you.  Then they fight you.  Then you win.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi (who definitely knew) And, way to go, Google. :-)  Apparently … Continue reading →

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“Fair and Balanced” can Distort the Story

Posted on February 4, 2011 by ErgoOne

Steve Hayes, a friend from South Africa with long-time credentials as an antiapartheid activist and human rights supporter, wrote a wonderful blog today on how the media’s obsessive determination to tell both sides of all stories can paradoxically result in … Continue reading →

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It’s aLIVE!

Posted on February 3, 2011 by ErgoOne

The server that hosted www.ergosphere.net crashed Sunday morning.  With one thing and the other (specifically, getting a different server), getting the blog up and running took til this evening.  But it’s done, and all should be well now.  :-)

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13.2 Billion Years Into the Past…

Posted on January 26, 2011 by ErgoOne

Today NASA released a video taken by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows the most distant galaxy that the human race has ever discovered.   Since, in astronomy, space=time, this video also peers 13.2 billion years into the past….

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