A predictive ocean oil spill model

This is the final report of a two-year, Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Initially, the project focused on creating an ocean oil spill model and working with the major oil companies to compare their data with the Los Alamos global ocean model. As a result of this initial effort, Los Alamos worked closely with the Eddy Joint Industry Project (EJIP), a consortium oil and gas producing companies in the US. The central theme of the project was to use output produced from LANL`s global ocean model to look in detail at ocean currents in selected geographic areas of the world of interest to consortium members. Once ocean currents are well understood this information could be used to create oil spill models, improve offshore exploration and drilling equipment, and aid in the design of semi-permanent offshore production platforms

Money's Unholy Trinity: devil, trickster, fool

This paper argues that traditional associations between money and the devil remain with us - best seen in narratives about the (im)morality of money following the crisis of 2008. However such eruptions of moral concern about money and finance mask the more fundamental problems of a money economy that these associations sought to articulate in the first place. The fundamentally 'demonic' nature of money is not necessarily either about 'evil', but expresses the ontological insecurities both of money itself and of the social changes it brings about. The paper looks both at the long historical association between money and three overlapping 'psychologems' - Trickster, Devil and Fool. It argues that these ‘mythic’ characters performed an important function in allowing the complexity of money to be articulated and embodied