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How Networking Influences What We Speak

…of the earth and asked them to pick one language in which to communicate with someone they knew nothing about, which language would each person choose? The language they’d pick…



Ouch!

…stream nurturing the American progressive economists grew from the social gospel movement, which sought to promote the kingdom of God on Earth through enlightened social policy and the kind of…



Ralph Steadman Answers Your Questions

…back in New York with no shoes and needing a doctor who asked me if I was “a regular kind of guy?” “How dare you!!” I retorted, “What on earth







Want A Politically Viable Gas Tax? Make It Voluntary

…Bond rallies with stars like Rita Hayworth and Bette Davis generated mass support for “the greatest investment on earth.” Because the plan is optional, high-mileage drivers and businesses that can’t…



Food Deserts: A Guest Post

…Hong Kong — by some measures the most crowded, pricey city on earth. A square meter of office space costs $2,239 a year, more than double the going rate in…




The True Cause of College-Tuition Inflation?

For college students and their parents, the steady spike in tuition prices in recent decades has been not only troubling but mysterious: why on earth is tuition inflation double the…



A Q&A With Amazing Race Host Phil Keoghan

…Skull.” And my final question: As someone who’s traveled professionally for over 20 years and who’s been to 100 countries, what is your favorite place on earth? Anywhere where I’m…



Can't NASA Find a Better Launch Site?

…there, why does NASA continue to use it as a launch site? Because it’s close to the equator, which helps a launching spacecraft more quickly escape Earth’s gravity; because shuttle…



High-Speed Rail and CO2

…be created in the construction of the HSR system. When the emissions spewed by all those earth movers, tunnel boring machines, bulldozers, trucks, cranes, etc. are taken into account, the…



Bicycle Inflation in Paradise?

…but it was a girl’s Raleigh from the 1960’s with a wicker basket. I started looking around the web. At the down-to-earth-sounding Recyclery, another Portland used bike shop — and…



Bring Your Questions for Buzz Aldrin

…1969, Aldrin, along with Neil Armstrong, spent 21 hours on the lunar surface while some 600 million people watched from Earth. He later had an asteroid and a crater named…




Let the Farmers' Market Debate Continue

…differences, everyone was connected: connected through the earth, our Mother, Terra Madre; connected through food, the very web of life; connected through our common humanity, which makes the peasant the…



The Climate-Change Climate in the U.K.

…arguing that “Man is causing global warming and endangering life on Earth”: Ministers sanctioned the campaign because of concern that scepticism about climate change was making it harder to introduce…








Ken Caldeira's Carbon Solution

…outgoing radiation emitted by the earth,” he says. Furthermore, atmospheric carbon dioxide is governed by the law of diminishing returns: each gigaton added to the air has less radiative impact…





When the Weather Puts Food on Your Table

…of pendle would have to be buried in the cold earth to preserve their sap — for if this quarry water was allowed to leach out it could never return,…




Geoengineering Goes Mainstream

…opposed to keeping the temperature of the earth stable via geoengineering in the short run until carbon capture becomes routine) looks misguided. I suspect that with the failure more or…