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Climate Change threatens national parks

A new report, reported in USA Today outlines major hazards to our national parks, with climate change presenting the greatest. The report’s data comes from Global Impacts in the United States, which...

2 Oct 2009

Lomborg: Carbon cuts likely to harm

Writing for The Washington Post, skeptical environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg discusses likely impacts of any required carbon cuts, and, crucially, the huge cost of carbon cuts versus other means of reducing...

Bjørn Lomborg | 1 Oct 2009

Michelangelo Podcast Series #1

Part I: Bacchus Art historian William Wallace discusses major works of Michelangelo’s career. This 10-part audio podcast series provides fascinating insights into the individual works of the most...

William E. Wallace | 30 Sep 2009

WSJ Five Best – Novels About Mental Disorders

Douwe Draaisma picks novels that focus on mental disorders. Draaisma is author of Disturbances of the Mind. 1. Motherless Brooklyn By Jonathan Lethem Doubleday, 1999 Now that neurologists and psychiatrists...

Douwe Draaisma | 28 Sep 2009

Kinley on the G20

Civilising Globalisation author David Kinley’s ABC News op-ed on the G-20 can be found here. Kinely writes on Adam Smith, government intervention, and the true task of responsible globalization. Read More ?

25 Sep 2009

UN Human Rights Council Report on Gaza: War Crimes or New Rules of War?

On September 15, 2009 the UN Human Rights Council published a detailed and shocking report about Israeli and Hamas conduct during the Gaza War. Israel carried the brunt of the criticism. Did Israel violate...

Michael L. Gross | 21 Sep 2009

Jerome Kagan featured on Rorotoko

Cambridge favorite Rorotoko, that interviewer of fascinating brainy people, posted a piece on Jerome Kagan today. Kagan has studied child psychology for decades, and has turned his attention to the age-old...

18 Sep 2009

Health Insurance and Competition

Getting to the root of our health-care woes: competition. Will a public option increase competition and lower costs? Are markets really dominated by single players, state by state? FOX has some interesting...

17 Sep 2009

A New Approach to Sports Psychology

Writing for Psychology Today, psychologist Steven Reiss explores how applying the 16 human needs discussed in The Normal Personality allows for different approaches in sports psychology. ~ ~ Peter Boltersdorf,...

Steven Reiss | 16 Sep 2009

Harold Vogel on Universal & Disney’s latest attractions

Entertainment Industry Economist Harold Vogel comments to Reuters on Universal’s new theme park venture — a 20 acre Harry Potter section. In the same article, Draco Malfoy tells us that it...

16 Sep 2009

What is Socialism in 2009?

The New York Times Room for Debate blog asks this very question. And our own Terence Ball responds with a surprising fact: the writer of the Pledge of Allegiance was Socialist. Read it >> Read More ?

15 Sep 2009

Hetherington & Weiler on The State of Things

Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, authors of Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics were interviewed for WUNC’s The State of Things. From WUNC: Is it more important for your...

14 Sep 2009