Category: Miscellaneous

“Presidents almost always toss a few environmental promises into the State of the Union Address. Then they almost always fail to deliver.” Continue reading State of the Union is often paved with green intentions

After years of talking about it, we are finally poised to control our own energy future. We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years. We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas, and the amount of renewable energy we generate from sources like wind and solar – with tens of thousands of good, American jobs to show for it. We produce more natural gas than ever before – and nearly everyone’s energy bill is lower because of it. And over the last four years, our emissions of the dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet have actually fallen. Continue reading Read it first: Climate/Energy section of Obama SOTU here!

Much less awesome than it sounds. Curing a cancer is not a function of crunching data of dubious quality. Continue reading IBM puts supercomputer to work on cancer

“But Dr. Edna Foa, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, says that what Chris Kyle was doing with Eddie Ray Routh was not only not prolonged exposure therapy, it wasn’t any kind of therapy at all. Dr. Foa should know; she invented prolonged exposure therapy.” Continue reading ‘Shooting Therapy’ Did Not Kill Navy SEAL Chris Kyle

Meaningless dribble. Continue reading Magical Activity: Moderate exercise reduce breast cancer risk?

“Human error appears to have played a role in the partial power outage that disrupted the Super Bowl last Sunday in New Orleans.” Continue reading Device Setting Triggered Super Bowl Outage

A 3-way guardianship is understandable in the define-your-own-family era. But three parents on a birth certificate? Continue reading Florida judge approves birth certificate listing three parents

“Oh, Christ, what the hell did I do last night?” Continue reading No Fracking Way: Hungover Energy Secretary Wakes Up Next To Solar Panel

She’s helped lock up public lands, halted oil and gas leases, killed jobs, funded radical green groups and donated to Obama. Continue reading Sally Jewell: Obama’s radical green, job-killing nominee for Interior Dept.

Sally Jewel is another goofy enviro. Continue reading Interior Secretary Nominee ‘Not Proud’ of ‘Commuting Footprint’ of REI Employees

Regardless, we’ll see what the EPA has in store for fossil fuels tomorrow. Continue reading Senior Dem: Obama vows to tackle climate – eventually

A pro-nuclear power, climate alarmist. Continue reading Is MIT Nuclear Physicist Going To Be the Next Energy Secretary?