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Oct 28th, 2015 |
By Jonathan Golob |
Category: Energy, Environmental, Featured Articles, Lead Article, Science and Society
Cliff Mass (meterologist, and a smart man with a consistently different take on global warming issues), makes an interesting point in a recent post: By focusing on global warming as a moral issue (and from his perspective, using scare tactics about the weather to promote concern) environmental activists are failing to convince the public to […]
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Oct 1st, 2014 |
By Jonathan |
Category: Featured Articles, Lead Article, Public Health
Ebola–like many viruses, including the recently popular enterovirus 68–is spread by filth. Ebola thrives on poverty and disparity. Decency for the poorest is what makes a developed country a developed country: a place where one does not die from easily prevented diseases (among other things). Decency isn’t our long suit.
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May 8th, 2013 |
By Jonathan Golob |
Category: Featured Articles, Lead Article, Medicine
How much a plate of spaghetti is going to cost you isn’t usually a mystery. Sure, the price can vary quite a bit–from a few cents if you’re making the plate yourself from groceries, to dozens of dollars at a fancy restaurant. You shouldn’t be too surprised by the bill at the end; the price […]
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Mar 17th, 2011 |
By Jonathan Golob |
Category: Featured Articles, Lead Article, Nukes
Like many of you, I’ve been closely following the developments at the Fukushima reactor complex. Below is a set of links to articles I’ve written for the Stranger, as the events have unfolded. 3/12/2011 Explosion at Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Cesium Detected 3/14/2011 Don’t Panic Geiger Counter Readings Rise in Tokyo 3/15/2011 What’s on Fire at […]
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Oct 12th, 2010 |
By Jonathan Golob |
Category: Economics, Featured Articles, Lead Article
Conservative commentators have been riling up their audiences recently with lots of talk about America ‘devaluing our money’ and expressing the horrors that befell us after the United States left the Gold Standard in 1972.
Let’s talk macroeconomic theory, and see why they’re wrong.
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Oct 7th, 2009 |
By Jonathan Golob |
Category: Featured Articles, Lead Article, Medicine
The US healthcare system, in its present state, is a failure. It fails those with and without coverage. We spend more, care for fewer and are sicker than the citizens of any other industrialized nation.
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Apr 15th, 2009 |
By Jonathan Golob |
Category: Economics, Featured Articles, Lead Article, Medicine
Dendreon, a Seattle-based biotech startup, just completed a successful phase III trial on an entirely new kind of cancer treatment.
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Feb 12th, 2009 |
By Jonathan Golob |
Category: Evolution, Featured Articles, Lead Article
Human understanding of life has come in spurts, separated by decades of consolidation and grappling with new data or new ways of thinking about biology. We’re, right now, in midst of another spurt in our understanding of life.
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Jan 28th, 2009 |
By Jonathan Golob |
Category: Environmental, Featured Articles, Lead Article
The optimistic among us assume that, eventually, new technology or new political movements will stop carbon release into the atmosphere. One of the comforting assumptions about climate change is that the effects of humans putting carbon into the atmosphere can be reversed. Plants remove carbon from the atmosphere, right? So, if we just stop adding more, eventually carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere should drop, and the adverse climate changes should reverse.
Nope.
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Sep 23rd, 2008 |
By Jonathan |
Category: Economics, Featured Articles, Lead Article
Well, that was a lot of money chasing nothing. A vast pool of money, and a growing list of problems–why wasn’t the connection ever made? Why didn’t at least some of this wealth go to solving even a few of these problems?
We need to try something new, to start a new engine behind our economy.
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