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Trillion is the new billion…
A guest post from Scenarios and Strategy…
From the celebrated visualizers at Wallstats (see here, e.g.), via Mint, some help in understanding just what a trillion dollars actually is…
… and as they point out, “the amazing thing is that $1 Trillion is only one tenth of the current bailout.” (As referenced earlier here, see the extraordinary Harper’s piece, “The $10 Trillion Hangover”, for an interim total from Nobel Laureate Joesph Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda Bilmes– $10.35 Trillion and counting…)
As we pine for more fingers and toes, we might recall that it was on this date in 1965 that (the all too resonantly-titled) Help!, Richard Lester’s follow-up to A Hard Day’s Night, debuted in London. The Beatles were, of course, in attendance; so, as it happens, was the Queen.
Fluid dynamics…
Coach: Can I draw you a beer, Norm?
Norm: No, I know what they look like. Just pour me one.
Readers may have recognized that your correspondent has a weakness for nifty info-graphics. In browsing recently, he came across a wonderful series created by Wallstats for (Roughly Daily’s old favorite) Sloshspot…
…and in that series, a striking juxtaposition. Consider that:
And that, at the same time:
As we plan to monitor our water use and tithe from our beer allowances to RDI, we might recall that it was on this date in 1870 that Professor Edward Joseph De Smedt of the American Asphalt Pavement Company, New York City, received two patents for the invention known as “French asphalt pavement”– the first practical version of sheet asphalt. Later that same year (on July 29), the first road was paved with sheet asphalt: William Street in Newark, New Jersey.
early asphalt paving (source)
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