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[Update: take our poll below!] How to reduce your carbon footprint? This time, the answer is drink your wine from a box! ‘ITALY’S Agriculture Ministry announced this month that some wines that...
And were the Georgians’? I admit it: no matter how many news stories I read, I hadn’t sorted the whole thing out. Some Canadian law students have taken care of that, and on a site with a great...
Questions, questions. And lots of dead animals sent by post. Darwin was very inquisitive. He had to be. But this letter has a wonderful quality to it. He’s about to go collecting pigs’ jaws...
Yes, I have a background in religious studies, so this excites me more than many international crises, but still. Cambridge had their booth going strong near the Lambeth conference, and someone snapped...
True, I’m no expert. Don’t worry, I found one. Dr. Adut sends his apologies, he was abroad when the whole thing broke, and I commented on it earlier with his book in mind. But he has a few...
Full of whacking metaphors?! My favorite kind of review! Marginal Revolution takes Against Intellectual Monopoly to task. In addition to all the whacking, poster Alex Tabarrok does my other favorite kind...
It has nothing to do with a nuclear-armed drill, or liquid-hot mag-ma however. The US has spent $100 billion on contractors since 2003. And as we know, it was well accounted for, and spent prudently....
Few newspaper pieces are so (ready for this one?) metatextual as this one about photograph manipulation. Remember Iran’s swarms of test missiles? Remember how there were really only two? Does it...
There are few things more sociologically interesting than a big scandal. I’m not talking about the scandals themselves; the behavior in question is never actually shocking. In fact, considering the...
On August 7, 1832, in Montevideo, Charles Darwin is packing heat. He’s getting grizzled, turning into a rough and tumble explorer. Two weeks earlier he writes: “our beards are all sprouting.—...
The Environmental Protection Agency will continue to require that ethanol be used in gas, as the NY Times reports: “…the goal of reducing the nation’s reliance on oil trumps any effect on...
I have a few. I have had credit card companies fail at the most basic services. And I’m one of the lucky ones. From a very heavily-commented editorial in today’s New York Times: ‘When...
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