Accelerated sea-level rise? I mentioned a few days ago a report that sea levels are rising faster than predicted by the IPCC. There is another such report just out here. Below is an email on the subject from Professor Dr. Nils-Axel Morner [morner@pog.nu], a leading world authority on sea levels and ...

This is the fourth and final (phew!) episode in a four-part series: Episode I - Q408 in-depth analysis - available here with Q+A covered in an addendum (IA) (link) Episode II - Introducing the ChannelAdvisor Ecommerce Framework (CEF) (link) Episode III - eBay, Amazon an...

mental_floss477:http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/22780.html Baseball has often been described as the thinking man’s game. Yogi Berra once said that America’s national pastime was 90 percent mental, and the other half physical. If any player could make sense of such a statement,...

These are the endnotes in the submitted Manuscript. As you can see, verifying them should be relatively simple given the included web page URL. These do not reflect the additional 90 pages of sources — McGH requested I remove to make the book smaller. > N O T E S Chapter 1 1. Daniel Gross, ...

in what sort of country do we reside where there's more public outrage over the exposure of a man's genetalia during the superbowl than we find over this bald partisan obstinacy toward the economic recovery plan? how have we come to a place where there's more coverage surrounding whether or not chri...

We are chumps to still be putting up with all that is being done to us. With a couple of trillion dollars to be borrowed or printed up by the federal government just this year, we are going to be even more in hock to the elite lenders and bond dealers (money changers). No, we don't know exactly what...

Jonathan Zasloff [*] [download pdf] Bureaucratic reorganization may well constitute the most dismal swamp of policy analysis.  Agencies are restructured, responsibilities reassigned, bureaus renamed, boxes are moved around—yet all too often, nothing happens.  This failure, of course, l...

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (January 12 – 18, 2009) Investor sentiment around the globe was negatively impacted during 2009’s second full week of trading as a barrage of bleak economic and corporate news offered more confirmation of a deepening recession, bringing ...

Furrier.org will be at the Mediabistro User Generated Content conference.  I will be covering the event and hopefully announcing some new things. I love mediabistro because it reminds me of my eastcoast upbringing - they have good content but edgy in a professional way. Here is the info on Mediabis...

The torrent of behavioral sink stories from the UK continues. It’s an unholy combination — social decadence and depravity, an appalling level of crime and violence, and the expansion of state power manifested in pointless politically correct micromanagement of people’s lives. Also, check out t...