Superfreaks Tackle Climate Change
A recent article in the New Yorker reviews Superfreakonomics, the latest book by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, authors of the best-selling Freakonomics.
Reviewer Elizabeth Kolbert makes the Steves sound like glib amateurs who are simply out of their depth. When they assert the solution to global warming lies at the end of an eighteen-mile-long hose that would shoot sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, thereby mimicking
Best Holiday Light Since Rudolph’s Nose
LED Christmas lights use just 10 percent of the energy of incandescents, last for some 50,000 hours, and are cooler and safer than older incandescent lights. So why are you hanging onto those old Christmas lights?
Perhaps the best news of all is this: HolidayLEDs.com will take your old lights, recycle them, and give you a coupon for 15 percent off any LED lights they sell. So
Political Climate Not Changing
There are two reasons I chose a turtle to illustrate this blog post. The first is unhappy news about the fate of Costa Rica’s leatherback turtles: As sea temperatures rise due to global climate change, the reefs on which the turtles feed are disappearing. When this threat is added to coastal development, egg poaching and drift net fishing, it becomes apparent that this endangered animal may
