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The Mysterious Process by which Flint is Created

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Here's Saskia's video:  Here's Rachel's skeleton video from last week: My question was about flint: That was great!! So the trick is not to become an extinct experiment. Gotcha. Now I am going to look at your videos to see if anywhere you explain this thing I never understood which is how flints form in chalk deposits. I used to live in England and there were some chalk deposits full of really beautiful white Dolomite, but with the globules of flint. If you find them before they break into sharp shards then they look almost organic: like they're some sort of fossilised jelly-blobs. But I guess its just the silica and calcite separating at some point. But does anybody have any ideas about when and where it happens? Is it early on in the deposition when these were all separate skeletons swishing around in a kind of slurry on the sea-floor, or was it later when they came under some pressure? It seems like a violation of the second law of thermodynamics though. Another...

Afshin Rattansi interview with J. K. Galbraith

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See his book The Power to Destroy: How Bad Economics Drove America’s Decline . My comment : 22:30 Jevon's "law" is just a consequence of economics being complete BS. It is a consequence of people's belief that earning money is the only means by which human beings can survive. Justify that belief first before you start talking about laws of human behaviour.   And another : Unhooking from the US/UK financial system could be done in a matter of months. Subscribe to New Order . My comment : Economists are idiots! They don't know about anything real and so they think reality is economics. It's not. Economics is a load of hot air and economists have nothing useful to contribute to human knowledge. Subscribe to  World Affairs in Context . See  Hope - It's not Just France and Italy, ...  for half a clue about what a real economy needs to based upon.