Science & Technology
Innovation and its consequences.
- The Impossibility of Rapid Energy Transitions Kenneth P. Green 12/06/2012
- Understanding energy system inertia and momentum is key to judging whether a rapid transition toward any type of energy is feasible.
- Jeremy Grantham, Starving for Facts Vaclav Smil 12/05/2012
- A column by legendary asset manager Jeremy Grantham is more suitable for the tabloids than for one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious scientific weekly magazines.
- Gushing about America’s Energy Future Desmond Lachman 12/03/2012
- A triumph of market forces rather than government planning.
- Far from Electrifying Vaclav Smil 11/26/2012
- Electric car hopes never die — but electric realities keep intervening.
- Why Growth Is the Environment’s Best Friend Kenneth P. Green 11/07/2012
- The single best thing we could do to minimize energy’s impact on the environment is to not only maximize our own economic growth but also to help developing countries increase theirs.
- Did President Obama Restore Science to Its Rightful Place? Alex B. Berezow and Hank Campbell 11/05/2012
- On a whole host of issues, Obama has placed politics before science.
- Internet Search and the Nature of Competition Robert H. Bork and Gregory Sidak 11/01/2012
- Antitrust law protects consumers by protecting the competitive process — not individual competitors.
- Is It Time to Stop Putting Food in Our Cars? Kenneth P. Green and Elizabeth DeMeo 10/31/2012
- The ethanol mandate continues to do more harm than good — inflicting environmental damage, raising food prices, and distorting energy markets.
- An Unnatural History of the Electronic Mouse Edward Tenner 10/25/2012
- Technology marches on and the mouse is done for, or so we are told. But what if history had been different?
- Energy Is Everywhere Kenneth P. Green 10/24/2012
- Nearly half of what people pay for energy comes ‘embodied’ in the various goods and services that they use, and about half of that comes down to two things: food and health care.