But it also contains significant provisions to prevent new buildings from becoming energy hogs… Then Friedman, feeling noble after demanding sacrifices from others, drives home to this energy hog: 1044fd39d6904b807190305cac30b608_thumb …
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As always, my role is the amateur plunging into a pool of expertise.
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Another foray into climate science | The Moderate Voice
10 interesting and unbelievable facts about animals .
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Believe It or Not: 10 Things Animals Can Do Better Than Humans …
Mark Thoma: > Economist’s View: From 1983: Health Care Reform in Canada: [Here] is an article on health care reform in Canada from February 15, 1983…. “The Canadian health system is really nothing more than an insurance plan for all …
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Mark Thoma Tells Us About the 1983 Health Care Reform in Canada
Education is at the root. In the land of opportunity, the immigrants of the 19th and early 20th century could rise – or at least their families could – with the burgeoning industrial economy
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Education and Equal Opportunity
Certain politicians and tin pot dictators have long employed the tried and true method of using crises to keep constituents from “looking behind the curtain”. The most effective method of diverting attention away from how badly things …
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Making Ripples: post-corporate adventures in Floyd County Virginia …
I’m in an all-day meeting, so I’m mainly going to reprint the study abstract, the accompanying Science news story, “Clouds Appear to Be Big, Bad Player in Global Warming” (subs. req’d), and the press release from the University of …
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Science stunner: “Clouds Appear to Be Big, Bad Player in Global …
Chinese research bypasses the need for controversial embryonic stem cells.
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Raise Public Awareness! Animals are often Slaughtered if they do not find a home in Animal Shelters! All… (44 signatures on petition)
The denialosphere is atwitter about a new paper by McLean, Freitas, and Carter (2009, J. Geophysical Res.
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