Category: Economy
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The Toaster Project (Thwaites 2011)
Excellent! This book, The Toaster Project (2011) by Thomas Thwaites, is about something I have thought about for decades. How do we make the things that we have around us? Not just putting it together from a kit but how are the parts actually made, and the tools to make the parts, and the tools…
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Emergency Drone Deliveries
My brother sent me a link to this video. It is inspiring to see how drones are being used to deliver emergency supplies to remote hospitals in Rwanda. Some very good points are also made about not only saving time but energy by avoiding delivering things by driving a vehicle. Two issues that I wondered…
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First Republic receives rescue deposits from other banks
I saw this in the news today. I’m not going to reiterate the details (see the news links below for those) or try to predict what will happen in the economy. (I am not predicting a crash by making a parallel to the 1929 events.) I just want to point out the similarity to an…