mikkie on March 27th, 2009

According to Wikipedia, synergy is “the term used to describe a situation where different entities cooperate advantageously for a final outcome. Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The essence of synergy is to value differences.”
Yesterday I observed two very different instances of synergy – one involving [...]

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mikkie on March 22nd, 2009

This is a follow-up to a post about global warming that I wrote awhile back…
I just saw a segment on the CBS News Sunday Morning show that caught my eye. It referenced a scientist at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), who conducted a study and discovered that about 13,000 years ago, the [...]

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mikkie on March 15th, 2009

In January, President Obama warned that we were facing “a crisis unlike any we have seen in our lifetime” and that recession “could linger for years and the unemployment rate reach double digits” if nothing is done. He predicted trillion-plus budget deficits “for years to come.”
We were all scared. We panicked and battened down the [...]

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