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This is a blatant repost of content – all these blogs are – but this one is particularly blatant. [For full effect, click through.] The folks over at pagetour.com went to the trouble to visualize just how much money a billion and a trillion dollars actually is. I have heard on NPR that it’s hard for people to make decisions about monetary volumes once the order of magnitude goes above 7 or 8, that humans unconsciously shift to logarithmic scale thinking which leaves 100 million dollars being only slightly less than 1 billion dollars. That’s like thinking that 100 dollars is only slightly less than 1000 dollars. Have a look. Think about it.
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pagetour.com A virtual tour of one trillion dollars
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This Week: Edwards’ Campaign Aides Had A "Nuclear Option" Over Allegations Of Affair | My Blog Channel — May 10, 2009
[...] Meanwhile, may I express some exasperation at the investigation of the money paid to Rielle Hunter by the Edwards campaign for videotaping as something critical to our democracy and yet we’ve known that the Bush administration lost NINE BILLION dollars in Iraq and there has been not one investigation? It’s not an either/or proposition, but c’mon, there has to be some economies of scale working here when a 0K paycheck takes precedence over billion. [...]
Blog Highlight: Edwards Campaign Aides had “Nuclear Option” | IMAGINE 2050 — May 11, 2009
[...] I enjoyed Nicole Belle’s Sunday post on the ‘nuclear option’ for Edwards’ campaign aides. Apparently when affair rumors became increasingly likely, his aides formulated a plan to pull the plug on Edwards if it looked like he would win the primary. Party people through and through. Nicole put it all in perspective when she wrote, Meanwhile, may I express some exasperation at the investigation of the money paid to Rielle Hunter by the Edwards campaign for videotaping as something critical to our democracy and yet we’ve known that the Bush administration lost NINE BILLION dollars in Iraq and there has been not one investigation? It’s not an either/or proposition, but c’mon, there has to be some economies of scale working here when a $100K paycheck takes precedence over $9 billion. [...]