Land of Black Gold

Speculations on oil, peak oil theory, energy in general, and the investment implications.

Gossip, grooming, and your Dunbar number

In Land of Black Gold - Posted 1 year ago

Gossip, grooming, and your Dunbar number – David Dobbs waxes lyrical in Wired this week on the subject of the Dunbar number, that fairly wel...

Today's Headlines

In Land of Black Gold - Posted 1 year ago

Bloomberg: Job Openings Fall First Time in Three Months. Job openings in the U.S. decreased in April for the first time in three months, showing com...

Tags: time , open , job , month , headlines

Flashback 6/7/2011

In Land of Black Gold - Posted 1 year ago

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Tags: flashback

Even Worse Than Reality

In Land of Black Gold - Posted 1 year ago

I found this article in The American Scholar via Arts and Letters Daily, entitled "Flacking for Big Pharma". As you might have possibly gues...

Tags: why everyone loves us , drug , medic , journal , bidil

Let Our Fame Be Great by Oliver Bullough

In Land of Black Gold - Posted 1 year ago

Review in brief: Encounters between Russia and the peoples of the Northern Caucasus have not been happy ones, and have generally ended badly for the s...

Tags: a fistful of euros , culture , history , life , minorities and integration

Murine Viruses and Chronic Fatigue: Does the Story Continue

In Land of Black Gold - Posted 1 year ago

Well, one day after writing an obit for the XMRV story comes this abstract from Retrovirology. The authors, from Cornell and SUNY-Buffalo, say that th...

Tags: infectious diseases , murine , xmrv , story , detect

Down Day Followed by Futures Up the Next Morning

In Land of Black Gold - Posted 1 year ago

The S&P 500 closed down 1.1% yesterday and this morning futures are pointing to a rebound (up six points). There have been 19 similar trading days...

Tags: futures , point , morn , close , day

Safety in the nano sphere

In Land of Black Gold - Posted 1 year ago

Safety in the nano sphere – The safety of nanotechnology is high on the scientific and political agenda. Qualifying and quantifying the issu...

Tags: science , health-and-safety , in , nano , nanoscience

Updating the Periodic Table

In Land of Black Gold - Posted 1 year ago

Updating the Periodic Table – IUPAC and IUPAP have officially added elements 114 and 116 to the Periodic Table. The elements with atomic wei...