by Erik Kain on February 24, 2012
Students at have put together a fun experiment. They’ve calculated just how much it would cost to build a Death Star from Star Wars. The steel alone, they estimate, would cost at “2012 prices, about $852,000,000,000,000,000. Or roughly 13,000 times the world’s GDP.” Kevin Drum says this is a bargain – for the Galactic Empire: [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 8, 2011
An Occupy Wall Street campaign demonstrator protests in Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street in New York. Slogans can be tricky. Occupy Wall Street is learning this. There’s always a balance to be struck between catchy, memorable slogans and meaningful ones. When you start using a slogan to actually talk policy, that’s when this balance becomes [...]
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