Silvio, the renewable energy rich playboys of Portugal await your electric Ferraris.
The NYT: Nearly 45 percent of the electricity in Portugal’s grid will come from renewable sources this year, up from 17 percent just five years ago. Land-based ...
Category: power
politics, history, force
Does politics need to be entertaining? Yes.
Writing about Sarah Palin and more recently enjoying parodies of Glenn Beck I’ve been thinking on and off about political theater. Or rather, how difficul...
Omni. Meaning lots of links and not that magazine with the cool covers from yesteryear. Sadly.
The Browser is my favorite site of the moment. The below excerpts are taken mostly from it. · “I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it ...
Revolutions from 1789 to 1989, or, how the guillotine turned into a round table.
Timothy Garton Ash: [The Velvet Revolution], might be contrasted with an ideal type of 1789-style revolution, as further developed in the Russian Revolution of ...
To serve or be served.
Republican activists in Iowa are decrying the Iowa Family Policy Center’s efforts to raise $100,000 to hire Sarah Palin for a speaking engagement, “...
“Phones unfortunately more widespread than food.”
Matthew Cordell writes: The WFP has announced a new twist in its successful program using mobile phones to alert Iraqi refugees in Syria about available food ai...
Hiding in plain sight and plethora.
And here I thought Google was already doing this for the U.S. government: In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putti...
on scientific knowledge, mental health and politics
A study of male testosterone levels during election night 2008 suggests male supporters of McCain-Palin were “amped up” on testosterone. As technolo...