Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Counting deaths, analyzing war

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

This American Life: What’s In a Number.

Climate change and gender

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Bradford Plumer relays the implications for women if and/or when the time comes that humans must adapt to climate change.

Havana has nothing on Washington D.C.

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

The crime of exposing the truth about Iraq by Glenn Greenwald

Hell in a handbasket woven out of stubbornness

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

From Be Nice and Share by Brad Plumer:

“[T]he testimony of Lovelock, Hansen, and the rest of organized science makes it very clear that it would be a wise investment, indeed the wisest possible investment, to spend large sums of government money to hasten this transition to solar power. Where should it come from? One obvious candidate is the Pentagon budget, now devoted to defending us against dangers considerably less threatening than climate change.”

Rough facts, great info

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

The irony of our situation is that we are better informed today than we have ever been. It’s like existentialism writ large.

What the Bilal Hussein detention reveals about the Bush administration

Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change: Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economics Service and Adviser to the Government on the economics of climate change and development, is delighted to present his report to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Economics of Climate Change.