Only In It For The Gold

Gus McPherson posted Here's Revkin's piece. I'm softening on Nye, whom I didn't like a long time ago when I saw Li...

I object to this article on Medium , which alleges that 5 x 3 is correctly understood as 3 + 3  + 3 + 3 + 3, but NOT as 5 + 5 + 5. Seriousl...

I wrote this on Tom Fuller's . I hope you appreciate it more than his crowd did: Others may be accused of shifting goalposts, but I a...

Not content with his sponsorship of the notorious pernicious anti-free-internet SOPA legislation, the representative for Downtown and near S...

The internet has been cussedly interesting this morning: I'm finding myself thinking about Stoa t vs McKibben  (and not The B...

Our problem is uncontrolled anthropogenic climate change. The global temperature is a measure of the change, but it is not the change we...

Also in re IAMs from David Roberts's Vox article , and rather a separate point: There are tons of other interesting results burie...

David Roberts has an interesting article in Vox today which discusses the very severe limitations of the sorts of models economists typical...

Once while utterly disgruntled about my academic staff job at U Texas, I briefly renamed this blog to "Only In It for the Health Insura...

I came across this Twitter account . Currently self described as "Pros: labor unions, free expression, secular humanism. Antis: war...