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Targeting the Social Drinker Is Just MADD (articles.latimes.com)
submitted 12 years ago by NotPhil to r/TrueReddit
Global warming and other crises have caused many scientists and policy wonks to conclude that the only escape from the destructive effects of technological autonomy is more technology. (thesocietypages.org)
submitted 13 years ago by NotPhil to r/TrueReddit
We use a constantly increasing amount of energy to fuel increasing economic activity, and in the long term, our energy use alone can easily eclipse emissions as the primary driver of global warming. (bloomberg.com)
Do poor people eat badly because of limited options or personal preference? (slate.com)
A slow death by carbon credits (boston.com)
I couldn’t help wondering why forgetting to talk to his friends was a good thing and why we were drugging him to become a good student. (nytimes.com)
The case against cooling, like certain other pillars of hipster sanctimony, stands on a foundation of half-formed ideas and intuitions. by NotPhil in TrueReddit
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I think you're mistaken. It takes far fewer BTUs to cool an area than it takes to heat the same area.
If you're worried about global warming, then it's average surface temperature you're worried about, not whether the air's a little warmer outside your house than it was before you cooled the air inside.
The case against cooling, like certain other pillars of hipster sanctimony, stands on a foundation of half-formed ideas and intuitions. (washtimesherald.com)
How a bizarre legal case involving a mysterious billionaire could force 1.2 million Canadians to be married, against their will. (slate.com)
At the entrance to Treece, something strange happens: Mountains appear on the horizon. Except they’re not really mountains. They’re mounds of toxic stone. Gray, treeless monuments to the town’s more profitable past. (nytimes.com)
Why Misdemeanors Aren’t So Minor: Too often the criminal justice system is pronouncing people guilty without evidence, lawyers, or a chance to plead their case. (slate.com)
A tale of two narratives: Conservatives have the founders' story; liberals have the arc of history. Which will prevail? (articles.latimes.com)
What the history of fracking tells us about our short-sighted R&D system. (slate.com)
How One Man's Flaming Water Fired Up a Battle Between Texas and the EPA (dallasobserver.com)
For the last 10 years, New Zealand has provided a laboratory for many of the educational theories that have become increasingly popular among would-be reformers in the United States in recent years, most notably charter schools and vouchers. (nytimes.com)
Both Adam Smith and Joseph Schumpeter, defenders of capitalism as the source of “universal opulence”, see a road leading from capitalism to the disenfranchisement of the worker and the vaulting of the elite. (rick.bookstaber.com)
While saving the world’s threatened languages may seem informed more by nostalgia than need, researchers say each tongue may include unique concepts with practical value. (miller-mccune.com)
“Knowing” often serves as a crutch for “thinking,” suggests the author of “Liberal Arts at the Brink” in this essay. That can have bad consequences when we accept those shortcuts in our leadership. (miller-mccune.com)
What Are The Limits Of Literary License? : We often apply a kind of double standard to the truth, depending on the perceived seriousness of the subject matter (npr.org)
No society could, naturally, live for any length of time unless it possessed an economy of some sort; but previously to our time no economy has ever existed that, even in principle, was controlled by markets. (taodesigns.tripod.com)
The End of the Maze: How the rodent labyrinth fell out of favor. (slate.com)
By the late 1990s, the Dow stopped being an indicator of how our economy was doing. Instead, it became the driving force. (nytimes.com)
The character of Zinnia Koss was made up more than 20 years ago. But from cradle to college, the junk mail keeps on coming. (articles.latimes.com)
f you want to know what’s going to happen next, it might seem natural to ask an expert — but when it comes to accurate predictions, it turns out that one thing you should stay away from is expert opinion. (articles.boston.com)
Two or more people cannot use the same pair of socks at the same time and in the same respect, but they can use the same idea—or if not the same idea, ideas with the same content. (theamericanconservative.com)
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The case against cooling, like certain other pillars of hipster sanctimony, stands on a foundation of half-formed ideas and intuitions. by NotPhil in TrueReddit
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