A rocket scientist's surprising take on Anthropogenic Global Warming. ( Burt Rutan )

Burt Rutan has been an inspiration for me since the 1970's when his canard planes were featured in Popular Science. He has now designed the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo "the sexiest spaceship ever" and will soon begin flight testing.

On Youtube I found the following clip of a talk given by Rutan at the Oshkosh airshow. The video quality is bad, but the content is excellent.

It's surprising how few people have seen this. This talk was given months before hacked E-mails came to light, confirming part of what Rutan says.

You often read in the newspaper things like: "Now 90% of scientists agree with global warming, ten years ago that was 60%." For me that isn't an argument. Rutan says: "Of course Consensus has nothing to do with Science and Science has nothing to do with Consensus."

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Best Buy stock goes down 8% because 1% expected drop in GROSS margin ?

Barry Judge http://twitter.com/BestBuyCMO says BestBuy focuses on GMROS and GMROL, investors focus on GM% , they might not understand the difference between GM% in Retail and Manufacturing.




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Maker Fair

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Amazon to open brick and mortar stores in UK Click and Collect

A lot of stores like the Hema in Holland and Wal-Mart have be successful with with buy online and instore pickup, so why not Amazon (source Times). It might not work forever with media products (see cartoon), but Amazon also sells enough other things. Now they bring the "long tail" to the high street.

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