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Don’t Blame Me. I Don’t Have Free Will
Try this argument on for size: I am a smart, clever guy with an advanced degree in neurology and tenure. The brain is a biological machine. But I don't understand…
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Earth Has Rights! Guest Post by John Henry Briggs
Since I am away out west, I sent intrepid reporter and number two son John Henry Briggs to the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at CUNY Graduate Center, where…
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Stunning New Book! Hats For All
On Foot I'm traveling this week to the Air Force Research Lab at Kirtland AFB, in the Space Weather Center of Excellence. Not just "Center," mind, but Center of Excellence.…
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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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Taxing The Rich Always Fails Eventually
The solution Mr Obama proposed yesterday for increasing the federal budget was to raise taxes. He did not suggest taking a one-time chunk of money from those who earned it…
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The Impossibility Of Minimizing Your Environmental “Impact”
I like the word impact, especially in sentences of the type, "The missile impacted on the insurgents' hideout, killing all inside." But it leaves me cold and vaguely homicidal to…
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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…
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Free Mumia! And Tunisia! A Play In One Act
Update: I have been informed that this play is anything but clear (thank you!). So. Every resolution listed below was indeed adopted by the California Federation of Teachers at their…
