I'm enjoying the Nor'easter, so here are some fun links for you. Science:
The Shoddy Statistics of Super Freakonomics
An Open Letter to Bill Maher on Vaccinations
Consensus, what is it good for?
Other:
Why Newspapers are Dying: George Will Has Reached His Sell-By Date edition
The best & the brightest capturing their value-add
Goldman Sachs: 'Trading With Advantages'
The Dominance of the Financial Sector Has Become a Mortal Danger to Our Economic Security
How the Servant Became a Predator: Finance's Five Fatal Flaws
The Service-less Service Economy
Where there's a (George) Will there's a way (to be a preening, pompous ass)
How CBO budget scoring devalues efficiency ... WITH PUPPIES!
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The color of solar cells -- and their short energy payback -- are trivial factors when considering the huge climate benefit they provide in avoiding the release of CO2 from the combustion of fossil fuels.
Recently, a paper published in a Chinese journal of science by Monckton, Soon and Legates attracted a small amount of attention by claiming that climate science models "run hot" and therefore overrepresent the level of global warming cau
I can't believe we still have to cover this. We know how old the Earth is. The science on this is pretty darn good. It is 4.54 billion years old plus or minus about 1%.