Want to distill down the New Deal-era financial reforms? If you want our money to bail you out, you have to play honestly and by our rules.
Today’s “solution” to the present crisis is all bailout, no regulation–the mirror image of FDR’s. It’s going to fail.
This just in to the Dear Science mailbag: Dear Science, I recently read your response to Bothered Bowels’ inquiry from 2/13/2008. Sadly, BB is not alone. I actually know several people who experience this same issue, most with #2, but others with #1. Indeed, it particularly occurs at Value Village, libraries, bookstores, and also when […]
Via the BBC: Scientists say an understanding of how the Twin Towers collapsed will help them develop the materials needed to build fusion reactors. New research shows how steel will fail at high temperatures because of the magnetic properties of the metal… The key advance is the understanding that, at high temperatures, tiny irregularities in […]
What is more important: Having an experienced and capable vice president or president?
I’m totally and completely fed up with Sarah Palin and her personal, professional and political problems. Enough of the notion that deciding to carry a child with trisomy-21 to term makes one capable of leading the nation in a crisis. Enough.
If I were a woman accused of claiming my daughter’s child was my own, and I knew such accusations were false, I’d use science to prove myself right.
The second “storm of the century” is about to hit New Orleans, less than five years after the first “storm of the century.”
That should make you wonder.
The Fed has lent nearly $200 billion. Should you worry?
East Aloha street is the city’s designated route for cyclists to get East and West across Northern Capitol Hill.
Roll that in your mind, if you’re prone to think the Critical Mass people were asking for it.
Obama’s post-clinching pander-fest failed to improve his prospects for November, at least according the the polls.
For wind power, consistency is everything. The rub is, all of the pollutants we’ve added to the atmosphere are changing how the atmosphere interacts with sunlight in difficult to predict ways. Our continued belching out of greenhouse gasses makes building a wind farm increasingly risky (and therefore less attractive) than building a fossil fuel plant.