AB 32 is the four year old California legislation that requires deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the state. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and Valero Energy of Texas are sponsoring an initiative to place a measure on the November ballot which would suspend the plan until California unemployment falls to 5.5 % a [...]

The piece of doggrel in the title ends “box me up and send me home, ” and was a popular ditty among American soldiers in Vietnam. On March 14 HBO begins showing the ten part miniseries, Pacific, which is a retelling of World War II in the Pacific Theater. It follows by a couple of [...]

I subscribe to Wired Magazine, but am sometimes frustrated by the nature of its content which can drift off into the nonsensical. Just when I am ready to give up on the publication, it prints something that renews my interest. The March 2010 issue has an article by Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University [...]

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