In the news
:: Posted 3/01/10 :: Categorized as Blog
- Nature Conservancy’s carbon footprint calculator.
- How the G.O.P. Goes Green (Lindsey Graham)
- Senators to propose abandoning cap-and-trade
- Hayhoe’s dairy paper in PNAS
- South Dakota legislators tell schools to teach ‘astrological’ explanation for global warming
- Robert J. Myers, Actuary Who Shaped Social Security Program, Dies at 97
- Vermont Senate Votes to Close Nuclear Plant. “Plant officials had testified under oath to two state panels that there were no buried pipes at Vermont Yankee that could leak tritium, although there were. No tritium has turned up in drinking water, but even plant supporters expressed dismay at the leak and the misstatements. “If the board of directors and management of Entergy were thoroughly infiltrated by antinuclear activists, I do not think they could have done a better job of destroying their own case,” said one senator, Randolph D. Brock III, a St. Albans Republican.”
- The new sweetheart deals: “And then there are couples who treat their relationships more like month-to-month calling plans. Photographer Christian Johnston, 48, created what he calls “The Contract” with his then-girlfriend. The two agreed to formally check in every 30 days and accept or decline another month together.”
- Just Like Mombot Used to Make: robot chefs! “Then, a month later in Nagoya, Japan, the Famen restaurant opened, with two giant yellow robot arms preparing up to 800 bowls of ramen a day. When it’s slow, the robots act out a scripted comedy routine and spar with knives. “The concept of this restaurant is that Robot No. 1 is the manager, which boils the noodles, and Robot No. 2 is the deputy manager, which prepares for soup and puts toppings,” said Famen’s owner, Kenji Nagaya. “Human staffs are working for the two robots.””
- Innovating to zero! Bill Gates on TED.com. At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.
- God Said Multiply, and Did She Ever: “WHEN Yitta Schwartz died last month at 93, she left behind 15 children, more than 200 grandchildren and so many great- and great-great-grandchildren that, by her family’s count, she could claim perhaps 2,000 living descendants.”
- Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs
- A Small Price for a Large Benefit: Robert Frank calls for a carbon tax of $300 per ton of CO2.
- The Bankruptcy Boys: What do Republicans want? Greg Mankiw’s answer.
My new book is now out in English and traditional Chinese! (German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Polish, and simplified Chinese translations are coming!)
So what is the benefit of abolishing the Estate Tax? The old people will finally choose to die?
Thanks for the link on the SD resolution…WOW…will wonders never cease. This FINALLY made the local newspaper last Friday. The comments on the Argus Leader website are a riot :-)