Over 30% of your Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance bill is for administrative fees

See page 2:

http://dev.actuary.org/files/publications/admin_expenses_sept2009.pdf

Will Genetics be an Adaptive Liability?

It will be good to know your genetic "Achilles Heel", but will insurers use this in actuarial assessment of what your life is worth?

J. Craig Venter’s Human Longevity to Offer Health Services | MIT Technology Review

Paul Stamets: Bees & Fungi and the biologic communications underground

Paul Stamets - How Mushrooms Can Save Bees & Our Food Supply | Bioneers

Modern Love

Climate Change and Magical Thinking

Can you connect the two?

the realty
Climate Change (wikipedia entry)


the process of denial
Magical Thinking (wikipedia entry)

(A double re-post)

Stranded Assets

repost of a most enlightening article:

The Trillion Dollar Carbon Bubble

Prescience

over 30 years ago

President Gas