Showing posts with label population. Show all posts
Showing posts with label population. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 August 2010

Dino Rossi clueless Thinks 13 of his state makes over 200K

Rossi argued that 2 1/2 million people in Washington benefit from the 2001 Bush tax cuts.

With 6.7 million people in Washington state, Rossi is either claiming that Obama and Murray want to raise taxes on people that they dont, or he is claiming that more than 1/3of the states population is making over 200K a year

Source:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/18/rossi-rich/

Friday, 9 July 2010

21st Century Grid Can we fix infrastructure that powers us

The grid is wondrous.

And yet�in part because we've paid so little attention to it, engineers tell us�it's not the grid we need for the 21st century. It's too old. It's reliable but not reliable enough, especially in the United States, especially for our mushrooming population of finicky digital devices.

Source:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/07/power-grid/achenbach-text/1

Saturday, 24 April 2010

Armenians Reflect On Genocide Memorial Day

On April 24, groups will gather in town squares and city parks around the world to commemorate this first genocide of the 20th century, when more than a million Armenians were killed as the Ottoman Turk government purged the population.

But in lonely Vakifli, the day will pass without ceremony. No candles will be lit, no speeches read.

Source:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/turkey/100421/armenia-genocide-turkey-anniversary

Sunday, 28 February 2010

An Infrared View of the Galaxy [PIC]

This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core.

The center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years.

Source:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/421530main_GalacticCore_090105_HI_full.jpg