Are you all watching the Olympic games or what?

Driven to Dorset and back, taking a Caravan to the South Coast for My sister.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Climate change study forces sceptical scientists to change minds | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The Earth's land has warmed by 1.5C over the past 250 years and "humans are almost entirely the cause", according to a scientific study set up to address climate-sceptic concerns about whether human-induced global warming is occurring.

Prof Richard Muller, a climate-sceptic physicist who founded the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (Best) project, said he was "surprised" by the findings. "We were not expecting this, but as scientists, it is our duty to let the evidence change our minds." He added that he now considers himself a "converted sceptic" and his views had undergone a "total turnaround" in a short space of time.

"Our results show that the average temperature of the Earth's land has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases," Muller wrote in an opinion piece for the New York Times.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Wicked problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1. There is no definitive formulation of a wicked problem (defining wicked problems is itself a wicked problem).
2. Wicked problems have no stopping rule.
3. Solutions to wicked problems are not true-or-false, but better or worse.
4. There is no immediate and no ultimate test of a solution to a wicked problem.
5. Every solution to a wicked problem is a "one-shot operation"; because there is no opportunity to learn by trial and error, every attempt counts significantly.
6. Wicked problems do not have an enumerable (or an exhaustively describable) set of potential solutions, nor is there a well-described set of permissible operations that may be incorporated into the plan.
7. Every wicked problem is essentially unique.
8. Every wicked problem can be considered to be a symptom of another problem.
9. The existence of a discrepancy representing a wicked problem can be explained in numerous ways. The choice of explanation determines the nature of the problem's resolution.
10. The planner has no right to be wrong (planners are liable for the consequences of the actions they generate).

The power of knowledge is in mortal combat with the knowledge of power. It really is that simple... That's the Edenic apple we are all munching on.

I saw a theater piece last night called in German "Die Bizarren Experimente des Dr. Schulte." Was told it's by Sartre, but i don't know what he called it in French or the english translation. I don't know if it's a stand alone piece or adapted from something else.

I'd like to find the text. ET?

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

I enjoyed the mens bike road race but I went out before they got off Box Hill. however, I'd already noticed that the commentary information was chaotic and sometimes just plain wrong. Apparently the BBC ended up announcing that the names of the guys who came 3rd, 4th and 5th actually came 26th, 27th and 28th. Which, I'm sure you'll agree, is not an entirely minor error.

Fortunately the women's race was more informed, at least they knew the information they were getting was wrong and so were trying to correct the on screen info. But it was a very exciting race with a breakaway which contained the 3 medal winners getting away from Box Hill and running fast all the way back into london. I have to admit I was out of my seat at times

keep to the Fen Causeway