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Jingoism is in the air. You can smell it in the halls of Congress, where pandering politicians wax patriotic while inserting protectionist measures into recovery legislation. But you can also find it wafting from the eggplant parmesan in Harvard’s dining halls, which have adopted a rash of interhouse restrictions that make things dicey for those not lucky enough to sport an Adams sticker on their ID cards...
...honor Darwin’s legacy without attracting the whiff of religious fanaticism? Point out simple inconsistencies in dinner-table debate. (Individuals don’t evolve, populations do.) Remind others that evolution is overwhelmingly uncontroversial among scientists. But, for crying out loud, don’t wax poetic about the genius of Charles Darwin or his noble purpose. You’d be doing your entire species a disservice...
...substitute for a teacher. But it does purposefully empower the children. People don’t realize there’s an insatiable intellectual hunger in many of these areas. My parents, who grew up in Africa, tell stories of reading their one book all night until the candle wax melted into nothing. You can take a laptop anywhere...
...better than one gloomy Kanye? Lots of them!! The video feeds Kanye’s narcissism as it allows him to digitally multiply himself. He comes close to finally living out the fantasy of making out with himself in a music video. Gone are the days when Kanye would wax poetic about the nature of religion, war, and love, and the days we wanted to awkwardly fist-pump to his infectious rhythms. Kanye strains himself for a decent rhyme scheme; the best that the lethargic “Heartbreak” can conjure is, “Bad enough that...
...turning that research into reality was not just generous government aid, but the fact that Denmark stayed with it. While countries like the U.S. let tax credits for renewable energy wax and wane, smothering infant green industries in the crib, Denmark looks to the long term. In the 1990s, the government inaugurated tariffs that required utilities to offer 10-year fixed-rate contracts for wind power. That sort of security led to a rapid expansion of wind power at home - the country has more than 5,200 turbines producing in excess of 3,100 MW of electricity - and helped firms...