Bashing the climate engineers
In one of my Prototype columns (It Takes Deep Pockets to Fight Global […]
Category: readings
“Eye surgery with a backhoe”
I ran across that line in a poem today and I just loved […]
Goodbye, middle-class
The Chicago Tribune’s Public editor raises the question of what is the middle […]
Belief, disbelief and the brain
An interesting new study using FMRI suggests that the brain processes facts and […]
China Rising – But Is the U.S. Falling?
Over on Big Think, I posted on two seemingly different perspective on U.S. […]
Remembering the Forgotten Man
The Great Depression doesn’t sound like fun reading. But there are uplifting reasons […]
Is news dead?
Michael Wolff has a new news startup, Newser, that is causing him angst, […]
The Rise of the West
It somehow isn’t fair to boil down a seminal, 800+ page work on […]
Norway debates whether to leave oil untapped
Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post has an enlightening piece in today’s paper, […]
The insidious nature of bias
Shankar Vedantam’s Washington Post column this week is The Color of Health Care: […]