Trough Oil?

Forget peak oil for a little while.  Are oil prices set to drop in the mid term?

The difficulty with the bubble moniker is determining exactly how much of the price is being driven by purely speculative factors. With Crude, a variety of forces are driving prices: A combination of both fundamentals [...]

Mystery illness stops train in northern Ontario

Anyone out there have any other details on this?

Health authorities remain puzzled by an unfolding medical emergency aboard a Via Rail train that has left one woman dead and others seriously ill.
Up to 10 of the 264 passengers were showing flu-like symptoms and have been taken by ambulance to hospital in Timmins, Ont. None of [...]

A dearth of news accounts from Myanmar

The LA Time’s coverage of the Cyclone discusses NowPublic’s role:

Previous disasters have proved to be opportunities for “open-source” reporting, in which citizens post photographs, videos and written accounts that help broaden the perspective on a crisis. But the Myanmar cyclone has produced a paucity of such Internet accounts.
Nowpublic.com, which advertises its [...]