Open Thread for Night Owls: Science literacy stays flat as does understanding of polar changes
Science Daily reports:
"People's knowledge of polar regions and issues improved from 2006 to 2010, consistent with hopes that the International Polar Year in 2007 would boost public awareness. Unfortunately, we did not see a companion increase in co...
Open Thread for Night Owls: Science literacy stays flat as does understanding of polar changes
Science Daily reports:
"People's knowledge of polar regions and issues improved from 2006 to 2010, consistent with hopes that the International Polar Year in 2007 would boost public awareness. Unfortunately, we did not see a companion increase in co...
Open Thread for Night Owls:
Tom Engelhardt is author of the acclaimed The End of Victory Culture and The United States of Fear. He writes, Offshore Everywhere—How Drones, Special Operations Forces, and the U.S. Navy Plan to End National Sovereignty As We Know It:
But here’s ...
Open Thread for Night Owls: Trillions in energy savings coming
Maria Gallucci writes:
Architecture 2030, a building sector research and advocacy group, issued a report last week asserting that the greening of the U.S. building sector is on track to deliver far more energy savings than government officials predict...
Open Thread for Night Owls: On-the-job hazards—IEDS, snipers and now the residue of toxins
Where have we heard this before? Shades of "atomic veterans," Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome? The Pentagon says there's no problem regarding the effects of toxins encountered in the course of their work by U.S. troops overseas—not to mention the lo...
Open Thread for Night Owls: Climate change and the Foxification of the Wall Street Journal
Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal published an Op-Ed from 16 scientists and engineers titled No Need to Panic About Global Warming. It was excremental, going so far as to compare climate scientists with discredited Lysenkoism. Only four of the 16 h...
Open thread for Night Owls: AL senator argues raising teacher pay is against ‘Biblical principle’
I keep harping on this, I know. I say it nearly every time. But at a certain point, you just have to come to the conclusion that conservatives are conservative because they are, well, stupid.
Via Think Progress, here's Alabama State Sen. Shadrack McGi...
Open Thread for Night Owls: Campaigning like it’s 1952? Nah
1952 GOP Convention
Sixty years ago, on March 11, New Hampshire did what it has since done 15 more times, held the first presidential primary in the nation.
On the ballot was Robert Taft, who twice before had sought the Republican nomination but bee...
Open Thread for Night Owls: Will the U.S. ever gets its act together on energy?
Brian Merchant writes:
Business continues to boom in the global clean energy sector: Reuters reports that deals in the solar, wind, and energy efficiency industries netted a record $53.5 billion last year. That's a rather significant 40% from 2010, ac...
Open Thread for Night Owls: Sacrificing the future
Jared Bernstein, now at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, writes:
Here’s one reason we’re stuck in slow growth mode: the budget crunch among state and local governments.
The figure shows the yearly percentage point contribution to or sub...
Open Thread for Night Owls: Austerity plans right-wingers want for here make Brits’ life miserable
While the U.S. economy continues to make modest improvements but tens of millions of Americans still suffer from extremely grim employment figures, the situation in Britain shows no signs of any improvement whatsoever.
In fact, Brad DeLong writes, the...
Open Threads for Night Owls: Special ops and new bases in Africa
Spencer Ackerman writes:
When Adm. Eric Olson, the former leader of U.S. Special Operations Command, wanted to explain where his forces were going, he would show audiences a photo that NASA took, titled “The World at Night.” The lit areas showed t...
