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...environment, the only climate-change solutions they're likely to accept will be ones that come cheap. Fortunately the IPCC says that's possible; the new report concludes that the cost of stabilizing global carbon emissions by 2030 could require as little as one-tenth of a percentage point per year of global growth through the end of the century. Those costs will still have to be borne by someone, and the developing nations will rightly push for North America and Europe to pick up the check. Expect that argument to be renewed at the next major UN climate change...
...Women’s lightweight rowing has never recruited that many people before, maybe two to four recruits per boat,” varsity captain Jennifer Chung, a walk-on herself, said. “[The varsity eight] is probably 40/60 recruited to walk...
Maybe I’m bitter because my cell phone plan only gives me something like 50 free texts per month, and I always go over my limit (sorry Mom). Maybe I’m upset because my finger reflexes are a bit slow, and I can’t churn out 160 characters in 42 seconds like the text-messaging record holder (it’s a real competition, look...
...corruption, mismanagement, and endemic warfare, nearly three billion people—half of the world—live on less than $2 per day, and nearly a billion people cannot read or write. The temptation is to assign blame to the legacy of Western colonialism, but work such as that of Dartmouth economists James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote complicates the picture. Their research, examining 77 islands in the Atlantic, Pacific, and elsewhere, found that longer time spent as a colony translates into a better current standard-of-living and a lower infant mortality rate. Obviously, the abuses and depredations...
...York Times, a Boeing 747 crossing the Atlantic emits nearly 2,800 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) for each person on board, and USA Today reports that you would have to drive an SUV for a month to emit as much CO2 as a jetliner emits per person on a New York to Denver flight. And because jetliners emit these greenhouse gasses high in the atmosphere, their heat-trapping effect is greatly magnified...