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Rome’s smartest mathematicians scanned the night sky. Back in 46BC. Searched the moon. The planets. Stars too. Crunched numbers. Built models, spun ’em round and round. Looking for the missing piece of a puzzle. But some problems are eternal. Defy solutions. And in the end, Julius Caesar’s boys agreed. “F’it,” they said, “just add a leap day every 4yrs, and be done with it.” Of course, Italian’s have fudged their num

Hope all goes well. Love big families. Kids. Cats. Dogs. Frogs. Chaos is comfort. But I’ve drawn the line. Stopped the madness. Unlike the ECB boys. Yeah, they’re really rolling the dice now. Playing with fire. Unprotected. Prolific. Yeah, imagine their crowded Christmas cards this yr. Just look at all those baby Euro’s. So many noisy, naughty zeros. Overall: Rome’s smartest mathematicians scanned the night sky. Back

“Shale gas will revolutionize North American manufacturing, we’re seeing the start of a big wave, a trend,” he told me. And he knows. He’s leading it. Yes, Bruce Aitken, CEO of Methanex, is Earth’s biggest Methanol producer. Which you make from Natural Gas, then use for all kinds of things. He’s got plants around the globe, but not in America. “Twenty years ago, the US Gulf produced 8mm tons/year, which collapsed to

Never thought I’d see one. Mankind’s rarest creature. Humanity’s unicorn. He won independence, from Britain, in 1965. Ruled till 1990. Remained in Gov’t thru 2011. The world’s longest serving Minister. As a young leader, Lee Kuan Yew engineered a plan. To transform his small, crowded, impoverished, resource-poor peninsula into a roaring Tiger. A sparkling Asian jewel. He inherited Britain’s blessed Rule of Law, but f

He flew West to East. To save fuel. Growing up poor does that. Reflected back on his 6yr re-education, confined to a rural village, paying for father’s revolutionary crimes. And on his subsequent rise up Party ranks. Yeah, Xi Jingping reflected on the steep price his nation paid for its revolution. Anyhow, he landed first in California, checked his shipping-port infrastructure investments. Threw Hollywood a bone, dou

Hope all goes well. China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines. Inhale… India, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, Hong Kong. Yeah, bizarre. I thought the same as you. No one in Asia talks about Greece? Or Portugal? Not even Spain? Don’t they care that French banks are broke? Iran threatens Hormuz? Assad’s flattening Homs? Nope, they don’t. So I just shut up. Listened. And dedicated w/e notes to just that. Overa

Hope all goes well. President’s Day. And I’m off and away. To Singapore. China too. They got lots of people there. Ida has me meeting nearly every one. You see she knows me too well. I’ve never liked taking orders. Rules give me rashes. So she’s saved me from myself. From piercing the Great Firewall. Freeing Tibet. Taking Tiananmen. Left me with no time for meddling. Mischief. Misconduct. But guess what? I snuck Bazo

A ball player. Not half bad. Promising. But it’s early innings. He’s 15. Smart, dumb too. In equal measure, like me, and you. Knows how to swing at a pitch. But truth is, so many are thrown his way, he lets plenty pass. The latest is a fastball. Right down the middle. An invitation. To adventure, in Vietnam. Anyhow, I watched the young batter. At the plate. Time slowed. I imagined him exploring Hanoi’s slums. Surroun

Take 64 Kilograms. No more, no less. Divide it in two. Load each half into opposite ends of a six foot pipe. Then smash ’em together, real hard. Wait 1 millisecond. Kaboom! A magical mushroom. And ever since Little Boy swallowed Uranium 235, back in ’45, big boys have looked at the world with fresh eyes. Yeah, nations either have, or have not. Critical mass that is. It’s all that matters you see, ’cause everyone has