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The Drake Equation and The Number of Politicians Who Cheat
In 1960 a young scientist named Frank Drake formulated an equation that attempted to quantify the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy. His equation and what the terms mean are shown below. N is the number of civilizations in the Milkyway Galaxy that we may be able to communicate with R* is the average rate... »
Funny TV Graphics
Today, June 22 2009 on Good Morning America Dianne Sawyer interviewed 3 people on President Obama’s health team (one of them Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius). When they got to the issue of cost Dianne pointed to a recent study that revealed the original projected cost of medicare over 25 years... »
Voinovich PacMan
On June 10, 2009 Senator Voinovich (R-Ohio) gave a presentation to the Senate about our fiscal budget problem. To underscore just how much money the government is spending he used pacman as a visual metaphor. Below is a snippet pulled from Politico.com (at the end of this article is the full speech pulled from... »
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