A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism: Technologies such as the bow and arrow already desimianize the act of hunting. While our ancestors were able to experience the pure ape feeling of clubbing an animal to death with a rock, we are left with the cold, sterilized bow that kills cleanly and quickly from a safe …
A couple of scores this week led me back to a favorite Google game, wherein in I grab top rankings for obscure phrases that amuse me. An abbreviated list of some of the phrases I ownz, or at least ownz a substanial share of, starting with this week’s new additions to the list: sustainable nuclear …
Readers of this blog might get the mistaken idea that most of my journalistic attention is focused on climate, but for the last 17 years nuclear weapons have been my primary professional preoccupation. In that regard, it has been a remarkable week. Sunday night, Congress approved a spending bill that ended months of uncertainty surrounding …
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sustainability jumps the shark: sustainable nuclear weapons edition
Lee’s Ferry, on the Colorado Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Sitting at home working on a chilly Saturday, this photo from a trip in 2005 reminds me that I’d rather be at Lee’s Ferry than sitting home writing about it. But it’s a pretty interesting place, so writing about Lee’s Ferry is a good close second. …
I have always held a certain ambivalence toward my nation’s national anthem. For my parents’ generation, having participated in a war for our nation’s survival, it is a deep and important talisman. But to my generation, its theme (war) places it at the center of an unresolved struggle, making it an uncomfortable national icon. It’s …
Apologies for the graphical whiplash. I had some issues (*cough*hackedagain*cough*) that were most easily dealt with by changing themes. I promise to get the Easy-Do Parties lady back in her proper place at some point soon.
This is happy news: Improved routine immunization programs and huge national drives to give children a second dose of the inexpensive measles vaccine have contributed to a stunning 91 percent reduction in measles mortality across Africa, with deaths plunging to 36,000 last year from 396,000 in 2000, the World Health Organization and Unicef reported.
Sometimes the line between Onion and Not Onion is a bit confusing. But the Disaster News Network is apparently not a joke. Some headlines: UN: Planet in peril, time to act is now Long road seen for wildfire recovery ‘Superbug’ not new, danger remains After fires, sifting through the ashes Blog categories include (really, I …