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POPSHT, Mother Nature... Evolution, in action; documented and happening in ways we didn't anticipate. Real Science with Real Data. Oh, and the evolutionary pressure? Pollution and Climate Change.
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POPSNobel Peace Prize Misused And if they give it to a gasbag like Algore and the "Never Met A Palestinian Terrorist I Didn't Love" Carter - then we know they are not following Nobel's wishes.
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POPSScientists create solar cells with a twist. I suppose it won't be hard to have the power to at least power a Laptop. Perhaps a Solar powered tent for camping. We are finding new ways to transform energy into media we can use, and it, with the open information on the web is only bound to improve dramatically
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POPSPolitical Satire Stronger Than Candidates This is a good article about extra-wonderful satire and Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin (the first quote clipped here)...and a couple of nice slashes at Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden. These comedy sketches are becoming more well-known than the candidates themselves. Many folks now, when they hear Palin speak, wonder ahead to how SNL will parody it. Palin, certainly, gives the comics a lot of material to work with. A link to a video of the skits is at the bottom of this article. With the elections just a bit more than three weeks from now, we have to "press on," -- these Republicans are like vampires and to kill them you really have to drive a stake through their heart: They're not dead till they're dead. At least with our talented comics we not only can 'press on,' but laugh-on as well.
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POPSThe Core Misconceptions In The "War On Terror" "Terrorism is a particular tactic of political violence. Wars are conducted between states. Declaring a war on terror is like declaring war on serial murderers. War is what al-Qaeda wants. Such language elevates the terrorists to the level of warriors in a battle. The terrorists are criminals, not warriors, and should be treated accordingly. "
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POPSclimate change and poverty A tool for understanding the impacts of climate change on low-income and minority communities. How do you preach the importance of preventive measures to increasingly drastic change in weather patterns, that results in action, when you are working with people who are dealing with constant crisis not clearly linked with the environment?
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POPSHyperion’s portable nuclear power units Generating nuclear power with a small, compact modules that can be transported by truck, rail or ship to remote locations is possible with the Hyperion's portable nuclear power units.
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POPSThe Spies who love Obama
The world is a very complicated place and there are not always easy solutions to a lot of the problems out there," says John Brennan, a top Obama intelligence advisor and former senior CIA official who co-founded the Terrorist Threat Integration Center and the National Counterterrorism Center, a post-9/11 effort to integrate the US government's terror threat intelligence. "If you look at the world in black and white, you miss a lot of the subtleties out there. 'Either with us or against'—the world is not divided into good and evil a lot of time. Despite America's military might, a lot of these problems do not lend themselves to kinetic solutions"—i.e. the use of force. And world dynamics are likely to get more complicated and nuanced, not less, by 2025. "It's time to update our national security strategy to stay one step ahead of the terrorists," Obama said at Indiana's Purdue University. "It's time to look ahead—at the dangers of today and tomorrow rather than those of yesterday.
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POPSAdam Smith Meets Climate Change I don't follow the debate on how to create carbon markets as closely as I'd like. But this is an interesting idea about dividing emissions permits into two classes--for people helping and people really helping. Another thing worth pointing out is that even if Brazil, India and China didn't sign on, they'd still end up adapting many of the technologies that carbon markets would force. Carbon caps, for example, would accelerate progress toward more efficient solar power. But once that technology is there, and the price is lower than hydrocarbons (which most people in the solar industry, at least, believe will happen) then it will make sense for India to slap solar panels on all their roofs too.
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