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Hulluun Poroon pääsee pian Airbalticilla

Tiistai 06.07.2010 klo 09:13

 

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Airbaltic aloittaa marraskuussa lennot Tampereelta Kittilään.

Latvian kansallinen lentoyhtiö alkaa lentää talvikaudella suoria lentoja Tampereelta Kittilään torstaisin ja lauantaisin. Kittilästä Tampereelle lennetään perjantaisin ja sunnuntaisin.

via kauppalehti.fi

In english: Next winter Air Baltic, a european low-cost airline, will be flying from Tampere to Kittilä. Giving me at least a second option when travelling to our cottage at Levi, excellent news indeed!

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Posted July 6, 2010
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What Europe can teach China, from The Economist

From Charlemange column in The Economist, June 26th 2010 issue. "Help them to help themselves".

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Posted July 3, 2010
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Films on Science - Finland’s 100,000-Year Plan to Banish Its Nuclear Waste - NYTimes.com

On a wooded island more than a hundred miles northwest of Helsinki, in the town of Eurajoki, Finnish engineers are digging a tunnel. When it is done 10 years from now, it will corkscrew three miles in and 1,600 feet down into crystalline gneiss bedrock that has been the foundation of Finland for 1.8 billion years.

And there, in a darkness that is still being created, the used fuel rods from Finland’s nuclear reactors — full of radioactive elements from the periodic table as dreamed up by Lord Voldemort, spitting neutrons and gamma rays — are to be sealed away forever, or at least 100,000 years.

via nytimes.com

This sounds like a very interesting documentary! Reminds me that even with all the annoying things that finnish politics and policy-making can do, it is capable of making rational and pragmatic decisions that no other nation has been capable of yet. Like doing nuclear power the way it should be.

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Posted May 11, 2010
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A Bloodbath for 2010: the Smartphone market preview

The big battle this year in mobile will be in smartphones. Not because of reasons many pundits and analysts now suggest, that somehow this is that everybody caught the iPhone fever or that Google somehow energized the field with its Nexus phone. No, those are overhyped views with an overly US-centric view. Remember that differing from most high tech and media industries like computers, TVs, air travel, advertising, military spending, music, movies, rocket science etc, where the US tends to reflect about half of global spending of the given industry. That is not so in mobile telecoms. US cellphone users (about 285 million subscriptions) represent only 7% of the global subscriber base of 4.6 Billion.
via communities-dominate.blogs.com

Also by Tomi Ahonen, an excellent write-up on what to expect from 2010 in regards to mobile phones and the companies that build them.

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Posted February 1, 2010
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A peregrination on the nature of money « Locklin on science

I’ve never studied economics. What I have read of economics appears to be ideology combined with bad math. Since so much of what passes for modern thought is annoying ideology combined with bad math, I try to avoid such unpleasantry. History, on the other hand, I always have time for. I would like to think using history to think about mysterious concepts like money is useful, but maybe not. It amuses me to do so in any case.
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Excellent article on the history of money, fast and easy read.

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Posted December 8, 2009
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The terrible consequences of Egypt's swine slaughter. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/id/2229830/?from=rss

Nice example of unintended consequences.

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Posted September 29, 2009
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