Judy Pasternak on the battle for mindshare surrounding uranium mining around the Grand Canyon: In recent months, the uranium rush has spawned a clash as epic as the canyon’s 18-mile chasm, with both sides claiming to be working for the good of the planet. Environmental organizations have appealed to federal courts and Congress to halt …
“Missing Clovis man found dead” This refers to a recent unfortunate incident, and not the solution to a paleo-Indian mystery
Preliminary 2007 US greenhouse emission numbers are out:
This morning at work, I threw out an idle question on the newspaper web site about how rising gas prices are affecting people. The response was rich and thoughtful.
Coming of age when I did, and having had the art of that age be like the water in which I, the fish, swam, I felt like I had to say something meaningful about the death of the fabulously influential Robert Rauschenberg, who died last week. So here’s the story. When I was growing up, …
Saw Gary Hustwit’s marvelous film “Helvetica” this weekend. Helvetica is the universal typeface, that which it seems cannot be improved upon, both loathed for its pedestrian ubiquity and revered for its comfortable functionality. Reminded me very much of some of the issues raised by Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker piece a few years back on ketchup. …
Ajay Shah explains what’s hidden behind the economic term “elasticity” – people with empty bellies: GDP growth yields fewer poor people who respond to higher wheat prices by purchasing less meat or wheat, i.e. we have less of a shock absorber. That generates a reduced elasticity of demand of wheat. So prices have to rise …
All right, enough already. I’m tired of being hassled by The Man. I fixed it, OK?
Simon Donner today answered a bunch of questions I had about US food production numbers: [T]he extra corn for ethanol has to be planted on productive croplands, lands with the right soils, and most of that land is being used. In 2007, soybean planting – the other major feed crop grown in the midwest US …
Food prices popped back up a bit over the last week, according to the Economist, but have remained relatively stable for the last month. Down 1.7 percent over the last month, up 58.7 percent over the last year. West Texas Intermediate is up 99.8 percent over the last year (that would be “double”), and gold, …