Via Ezra Klein at WashPo: There’s been an interesting conversation over the last week about how young people will fare under health reform. Aaron Smith, executive director of Young Invincibles (and a…
Another personal plug… Mostly for my family and friends who read this blog, I’d love you to check out this video I made with Next Step Living and HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team) for the Cambridge…
Rather than repeat myself too much, I’ll just cite another meta-study that shows conclusively that “an overwhelming 97 percent of climatologists endorse the idea of human-caused global warming“. Some fun…
In this well-argued talk, Timothy Bartik makes the macro-economic case for preschool education — and explains why you should be happy to invest in it, even if you don’t…
The RSA’s Chief Executive Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of the RSA’s strapline ’21st Century Enlightenment’. How might this idea might help us meet the challenges the world faces today,…
New research suggests average global temperatures were higher in the past decade than over most of the previous 11,300 years, a finding that offers a long-term context for assessing modern-day…
__________________________________________ “Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert,” begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And it’s happening to about two-thirds of the…
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