The New Ballad of Chicken Little
Once upon a day, so bright and fine Walked Chicken B. Little. A scientist, mind! "The sky is blue," he said, "but I am not." "For I know much, quite…
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Earth Has A Fever: How Can We Cool It?
Earth Fever: Living Consciously with Climate Change by Judy McAllister, Erik van Praag, and Jan Paul van Soest With Foreword by Hazel Henderson and Preface, by Jacqueline Cramer, Minister for…
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San Francisco, Banning Capitol: Adds Pets To Forbidden List
The uber-enlightened which are the San Francisco city council and its hangers on have banned: McDonald's Happy Meals (they objected to kids being happy), cigarette smoking nearly everywhere (they refuse…
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Happy 1000th Post!
This is it! The nine-hundred-ninety-ninth-plus-one post! The post whose number is a pleasing and large (relatively speaking) power of ten! The post that pushes us over the top of the…
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Proving What You Want To Believe
You can always find a way to believe anything. That "always" is strict---the magic of belief, like a card trick with a gaffed deck, can always be worked. But just…
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Wishcasting The End Of The World: Update
Wishcasting is when a forecast or prediction is shaded in the direction the forecaster or predictor wants the event to happen. For example, if you forecast this weekend's weather, you…
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Predict The Next Strangest Government Regulation
Perhaps the most fantastical regulation to launch recently from the collective hive-mind of the federal bureaucracy is the one which administrates the very breath of life. Yes, the Environmental Protection…
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Overstretching Climate Change Attribution
Says Camille Parmesan and others, "The biological world is responding rapidly to a changing climate, but attempts to attribute individual impacts to rising greenhouse gases are ill-advised" (from the first…
