This year I’ll be fully exercising my right to grow 4 marijuana plants. Existing Cannabis Act is extremely oppressive for small scale growers, but I guess it’s a start. It’s February 23 and this year’s pheno-hunt has culminated in this short research outline. Final selection In the end, I selected 4 strains, based on the […]
Category archives: Science
Bitcoin: emerging decentralized consensus networks vs. omni-present central authority structures
Ten years ago, the Bitcoin protocol was first conceived and freely published on the Internet. It promised to be the first scalable, decentralized consensus network. Since then, there have been thousands of other such coins forked and cloned from Bitcoin, though none have been so far been able to match Bitcoin’s degree of decentralization, adoption, […]
Oscar’s day out
Last fall we were also having issues with a porcupine who ate down an entire row of raspberries, but were unable to catch him in the act. After an unofficial vote, we decided to humanely relocate him rather than resort to the 25cent solution.
Canada’s Oil Sands mega-projects, an aerial view: heads in the tar sands
Here are a few of the better aerial photographs I took of the oil sands exploitation effort north of Ft McMurray, as it was in 2012. Flying over the region was an experience that I’ll not soon forget. It felt like we were flying over Tolkien’s Mordor…