April 27, 2014

The Koch Attack on Solar Energy

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The Editorial Board of the New York Times today published a rather misleading piece about moves to tax solar panels, which already commonly...
April 18, 2014

Grass-Fed Beef Won’t Save the Planet

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George Wuerthner, January 22, 2010 Excerpts: Researcher Nathan Pelletier of Nova Scotia has found that GHG emissions are 50 percent high...

Important new molecule in the biology of dementia

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Anthony L. Komaroff, NEJM Journal Watch, April 8, 2014 Two molecules — β-amyloid and tau — are important in the biology of Alzheimer disea...
April 9, 2014

The Wall, by Marlen Haushofer (1968)

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I had washed my hair, and it now floated, light and bushy, around my head. The rainwater had made it soft and smooth. Looking in the mirror ...
March 31, 2014

The importance of reduced meat and dairy consumption for meeting stringent climate change targets

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Abstract For agriculture, there are three major options for mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: 1) productivity improvements, partic...
February 22, 2014

The real agenda of school choice opponents: protecting privilege

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Perhaps Steve Nelson should have heeded his feelings of “caution and ambivalence” before submitting his jeremiad against school choice (“Rea...
February 20, 2014

Three-dimensional chess

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While U.S. President Obama denies involvement in Ukraine yet decries the remarkably restrained government response to violent protesters as ...