Rabett Run

Congress' alleged aversion to subsidies hasn't had much useful results that I can tell, but there is one exception:  the end to thre...

I have trouble understanding how a smart guy like Yglesias manages to keep going further down this path, but when I've said that he pref...

One of the stranger, are you sure you have thought this through bits, was the piling on Jared Diamond based on Hunt and Lipo's new book ...

We went there in 2010 and did a little bit of volunteer work with a group focusing on mountain gorilla preservation. We did the one-d...

Everybunny is familiar with the usual run of ideas First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn...

The EPA announced that all US power plants will have to meet best available technology standards for mercury emissions. Mercury, like othe...

I was talking to a very knowledgeable friend about whether solar power will become cheaper than coal in the next decade, and he pointed out ...

The Idiot Tracker pointed out that Steve McIntyre is a rent seeker, using Freedom of Information to force others to hand over their hard wo...

Much buzz about the warrants, demands for information and seizures of computers and similar at Tallblokes, Jeff Id and the dread Steve's...

In a nice piece, " How to Be Manipulative ", (sorry, paywall) describing how ecologists can manipulate or observe manipulated eco...

The decision by the National Institute of Health to nearly completely eliminate invasive medical experimentation on chimps has received a me...

In a comment appearing in the American Scientist , Andrew Gelman and Kaiser Fung take the Steves, Levitt and Dubner to task for some very sl...

The abuse of Freedom of Information originated in the "sounds like science" efforts of the tobacco lobby have been woven into scie...

Stoat has arisen to contemplate the libel suit that Irene Meichsner brought (and won two out of three falls) from Stefan Rahmstorf. This ...

From Greenframe this pointer to an article in the Independent about methane emissions near the northern Siberian coast, where In an exclusi...

Durban kicked the can down the road , the key points being that the Kyoto process survived and that the developing countries (India and Chin...

The reasoning's simple:  Greenwald's part of the left, just like Obama and the Democrats who controlled the House and had a filibust...

The good news is decision that gay rights and human rights " are one and the same " in a speech by Hillary Clinton, one that state...

From the NY Times When Todd Stern the US Delegate to the Durban conference was denying the obvious He firmly denied that the United States w...

Today's Water District meeting featured an energy usage work study session .  We use a lot of energy moving water across much of the sta...