Category Archives: Economics

Why Die?

Posted on June 16, 2013 by gymnosperm

A very good question, and one that will be added to the “Great Mysteries of Nature Nobody Seems to be Thinking About” post. The oldest living things we know of are the gnarly bristlecones that have a couple three millennia … Continue reading →

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Bought a Gun

Posted on June 8, 2013 by gymnosperm

In a strange way I feel like a real American now. Armed to defend life, liberty, etc.; well, at least life on my side of the muzzle. Never thought I would own one. I remember as a kid playing at … Continue reading →

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Candyassification

Posted on May 18, 2013 by gymnosperm

Admit it, the world is getting more candy assed. Gone are the tough handed men of the past who dragged canon over mountains; who sailed wooden ships into the unknown with both skin and bone in the game. All we want … Continue reading →

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Passwords and GDP

Posted on May 1, 2013 by gymnosperm

Passwords suck. Be fair, how much of your life have you wasted for a lost username or password? It would be one thing if it were airline security, but mostly it is some random website you don’t give a rat’s … Continue reading →

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Here’s the Beef, Or the World Economy Explained by a Billion Cows

Posted on March 9, 2013 by gymnosperm

Grasses coevolved with ungulates (we can call them cows). About 30 million years ago due to declining temperature, humidity, and atmospheric Carbon dioxide a bunch of plants including grasses evolved a more efficient form of photosynthesis called C4. This allowed them … Continue reading →

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Carbon Isotope Excursions and Carbon Limitation of Primary Productivity in the Biosphere

Posted on July 15, 2012 by gymnosperm

Carbon Isotope Excursions and Carbon Limitation of Primary Productivity in the Biosphere Gordon Lehman, Trunkmonkey, Gymnosperm; sheepherders, ignoramuses all Abstract The conception of natural history as an economic struggle was developed by Geerat Vermeij (1). “Supply side” interpretations of δ13C … Continue reading →

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What’s going on here? #…oh who’s counting

Posted on February 19, 2012 by gymnosperm

More data follies. Had to respond to a tenant complaining of poor retail sales. Took a notion to check retail sales for the area. Guess the rainfall data follies should have prepared me. But no, naive I guess, too ready to … Continue reading →

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Not to change the subject or anything…

Posted on February 17, 2012 by gymnosperm

But I walked into the paint store the other day carrying a can of the paint I had bought there sometime within the last decade to paint my truck and was informed that the no longer carry that kind of paint. They further … Continue reading →

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Postcard from a resltess mind

Posted on January 31, 2012 by gymnosperm

What level of economic growth is sustainable? In the current environment probably the anemic growth we are seeing, but capitalism has always been a boom and bust thing with a mentality that if you aren’t growing like crazy you are … Continue reading →

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