Science & Technology
Innovation and its consequences.
- Creating a Problem for Climate Skeptics Kenneth P. Green 03/22/2010
- By conflating creationism with climate skepticism, creationists can only harm their fellow man by greasing the skids for draconian climate policies.
- When to Doubt a Scientific ‘Consensus’ Jay Richards 03/16/2010
- Anyone who has studied the history of science knows that scientists are not immune to the non-rational dynamics of the herd.
- What Role for Geoengineering? Samuel Thernstrom 03/02/2010
- Any effective climate strategy will have to rely upon a combination of emissions reductions, adaptation, and, if circumstances warrant (as appears likely), some degree of geoengineering.
- A Green Future for Just Pennies a Day? Kenneth P. Green and Aparna Mathur 02/19/2010
- Straightforward models suggest greenhouse gas controls will be anything but cheap, and they certainly won’t be easy.
- The Genetics of Job Choice Scott Shane 02/16/2010
- The aspects of work we prefer, our level of job satisfaction, our willingness to change jobs, and even our tendency to start our own businesses are all influenced by our genes.
- The Quiet Energy Revolution Max Schulz 02/04/2010
- How ironic that during the ‘drill, baby, drill’ demonstrations as gasoline prices spiked in 2007 and 2008, a silent revolution with natural gas was already underway that will make those concerns largely irrelevant.
- Our Chemophobia Conundrum Seymour Garte, Ph.D. 02/02/2010
- The false idea that our bodies have become ‘toxic waste dumps’ is not just wrong but counterproductive.
- A Healthcare Brownout John Fortier 01/15/2010
- A Scott Brown win will deal a nearly fatal blow to the current healthcare overhaul approach.
- The Green Con Job Dustin Chambers and Dan Ervin 01/13/2010
- The U.S. economy is sensitive to high energy prices. An aggressive push toward green power would result in the net loss of millions of jobs. There is a better way forward.
- Supreme Climate Folly James V. DeLong 12/18/2009
- The Supreme Court, which jealously guards against any hint of a religious symbol on public property lest it establish a religion, has gone a long way toward making the Earth Cult the official religion of the United States.