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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…a “hotspot” — an arctic Hawaii with a couple twists. A hotspot, also known as a mantle plume, is a place where molten rock in the earth’s mantle comes welling…
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is increasing the space between rows of seats on its planes. I’m not surprised — the Dutch are the tallest people on earth these days, as…
…by comparison. There are architectural flourishes here and there, but some profound fiscal gravity seems to pull everything back to earth. There is intense competition and no small amount of…
…we will post his answers here in short course. As someone who grew up playing lots of air guitar (or, more precisely, tennis-racket guitar), to everything from “September” (Earth Wind…
…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…
…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…
…task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s…
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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…worry as much! — Dave Ashton A. Faulty reasoning. Qantas has the best record by choice. These things are not by happenstance. They are a superb airline! Q. The earth…
…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…
…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…
…rise. So what on Earth is going on? And: According to research conducted by Professor Don Easterbrook from Western Washington University last November, the oceans and global temperatures are correlated….
…This isn’t likely to change, for the reasons we discuss in the book. Consequently, other approaches represent a more promising path to lowering the Earth’s temperature. The critics are implying…
…relationship between global temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide is more complicated than is generally thought. The real purpose of the chapter is figuring out how to cool the Earth if…
…that the Earth’s albedo (how much light the surface reflects from the surface) is very important. It’s one of the reasons climate scientists are worried about Arctic sea ice melting;…
Quotes Uncovered Here are more quote authors and origins Shapiro’s tracked down recently. Who First Talked About Skinning Cats? Big Government and Peculiarities Heaven on Earth and Third-World A while…
…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…
…the earth if global warming becomes dangerous. One involves increasing the reflectivity of oceanic clouds; another suggests mimicking the effect of large volcanoes by spraying sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere…
…O’Brien in this recent Tonight Show interview, while discussing geothermal energy, “the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees.” Unfortunately, Gore was off by — well, a…
…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,…
…people who are reaping 60 percent of gross rewards, while participating in percent of the risk. Is there anyone on earth who wouldn’t take that deal? Or even 1/10th of…
…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…