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Forging his way through the predictable UK media censorship: Dr Andrew Wakefield Responds to Measles Outbreak in Swansea
July 29, 2010 Consumer confidence is terrible; citizen confidence is worse: Only 11 percent of Americans have confidence in Congress. No surprise there is record-setting anti-incumbency anger rampant among Americans. But the sad truth is damned if you do and damned if you don’t vote for incumbents.
July 29, 2010 Scientists from two leading climate research centres publish 'best evidence yet' of rising long-term global temperatures
July 29, 2010 The world is continuously manifesting ‘butterfly effects’ – events that trigger something, which then triggers something else, which then triggers a whole cascade of effects. It’s iterative and emergent, and bureaucrats can do little but run in circles screaming and tearing their hair, while trying desperately to blame someone / something else for the fallout.
July 29, 2010 Two of the nuclear industry's talking points these days are that "nuclear power hasn't killed anyone" and that "no one died at Three Mile Island."
July 28, 2010 Goldman Sachs received a $12.9 billion payout from the government's bailout of AIG, which was at one time the world's largest insurance company.
July 28, 2010 Lower crop yields and agricultural production could drive as many as 6.7 million across the border by 2080, a study finds.
July 28, 2010 Americans' confidence in the economy faded further in July, according to a monthly survey released Tuesday, amid job worries and skimpy wage growth. That's at odds with Wall Street's recent rally fueled by upbeat earnings reports from big businesses such as chemical maker DuPont Co. and equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. That's because the pumped-up profits are being fueled by cost cuts like layoffs and overseas sales. In fact, big companies have shown few signs they're ready to hire.
July 28, 2010 While U.S. military psychiatrists are prescribing increasing amounts of chill pills, America’s psychologists are teaching soldiers how to think more positively about their tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, and wherever else they are next ordered to kill the bad guys and win the hearts and minds of everyone else.
July 28, 2010 Daniel Pink, a former speechwriter for Al Gore argues that we now live in the dawning of the "Conceptual Age"-that which has succeeded the information and industrial ages respectively-and the skills necessary for survival in this age are, roughly put, art and heart.
July 27, 2010 Even though two-thirds of American adults are overweight and a third obese, few drugs have been able to make a dent in our gross national product; they've proved to be ineffective and sometimes dangerous.
