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…of the earth’s crust, 50% of the world’s population, and consume 75% of the world’s energy – says MIT prof. How geo-thermal power plants can produce lithium for electric car…
…of the earth’s crust, 50% of the world’s population, and consume 75% of the world’s energy – says MIT prof. How geo-thermal power plants can produce lithium for electric car…
…taken humanity a long time to reach this landmark, or practically no time at all. Around ten thousand years ago, there were maybe five million people on earth. By the…
…one? And who’s got a good-news story to share about electric vehicles? Also: Levitt weighed in a while back on “the unappealing economics of electric vehicles” and the rare-earth conundrum….
…like determining the right size of the tax and getting someone to collect it — there’s the fact that greenhouse gases do not adhere to national boundaries. The earth’s atmosphere…
…your marriage, your close relationships, your family? That’s the criteria we use for our personal lives, as well as for society. I mean, to what extent does the Flat Earth…
…big subsea methane deposits. There were ample signs this was overblown but new work goes farther.” He has the full story on his Dot Earth blog: Given that methane, molecule…
…for cooking, nuclear power, and trying to cool the earth. Yeah, him. And here’s a more layman-friendly summary of the paper: Much of what paleontologists have learned about dinosaurs—especially about…
…should study Google Earth maps of their parking lots to determine if they are changing a companies culture? I love Tim’s thinking and would love to see someone test the…
…of his mind – and was bound, therefore, to fall back to earth a bit. So the team made the same mistake that a lot of stock-market investors make: they…
For a singularly grim, if fiercely literary, assessment of the earth’s environmental fate, the grizzled wisdom of Cormac McCarthy is always there to deliver the dark pronouncement that we’re flat-out…
…a true global exercise in open innovation. And in the end, it was a self-educated English watchmaker, John Harrison, who found a down-to-earth solution. His invention, a marine chronometer, ultimately…
…worried at all. In this case, more knowledge led to … more extremism! Why on earth would that be? Dan Kahan has a theory. He thinks that our individual beliefs…
…I thought you would have explained this aspect of the social cost & benefit. Why on earth would I boo in a setting where I thought I instead would be…
…my house into a decathlon course, my friend Carl James and I very nearly chopped off some limbs while wrestling the lawnmower over a patch of earth that was plainly…
…Earth. As lead researcher David Keith explained: “The objective is not to alter the climate, but simply to probe the processes at a micro scale. … The direct risk is…
…rose to dominate the earth, overreaching their grasp and becoming extinct. The book spent nearly half a year on top of the New York Times bestseller list. Yet the question…
…water, a gas stove, and a concrete floor. Why on earth would welfare applicants say they had these essentials when they didn’t? Martinelli and Parker attribute it to embarrassment. Even…
…says the earth could warm by 4C by the end of the century.) Their strategies include buying water treatment companies, brokering deals for Australian farmland, and backing a startup that…
…a lottery payout. It is one of the most intriguing ideas we’ve run across in some time. Maybe not earth-shattering, but potentially an important way to help people save more…
…a year, that’s equal to 36 trips around the Earth or four trips to the moon hunting for underpriced curb parking in a little 15-block area. In South Korea, an…
…Hallatt’s money. And now they’ve filed a lawsuit in Seattle claiming that Hallatt’s Pirate Joe’s business is infringing their trademarks. Why on earth would Trader Joe’s be suing one of…
…children who she abrasively exposed to her evil and violent life, we celebrate her passing from this earth and hope she lives in the after-life reliving each gesture of violence,…
…the Earth Institute at Columbia University, started an ambitious program called the Millennium Villages Project. He and his team chose a handful of sub-Saharan African villages, where they imposed a…
…to the ends of the earth to figure out the invaluable whys we face as a society. Stay tuned for more Why Axis blog posts. And if you want to…
…in large part because of uncertainty about how humans (and other species) will adapt to stresses imposed by climate change. Will farm yields inevitably decline as the earth warms, or…
…1,000 people on the planet. With Think Like a Freak coming out next week, I hope we get to 10 million copies before there are 10 billion people on Earth….
By cataloging the steady march of human progress, the Harvard psychologist and linguist has become a very public intellectual. But the self-declared “polite Canadian” has managed to enrage people on…
Also: should we all have personal mission statements?
Also: is it better to send a congratulatory note to someone who deserves it or a condolence note to someone who needs it?
Kidney failure is such a catastrophic (and expensive) disease that Medicare covers treatment for anyone, regardless of age. Since Medicare reimbursement rates are fairly low, the dialysis industry had to…
