Michigan snowballs downhill

| April 5, 2009

A report on Michigan’s downward economic spiral and outmigration at Detroit News. Michigan has lost population equivalent to the size of its three largest cities over the past eight years. Half of all Michigan college graduates leave the state. Have you noticed those “come to Michigan” ads on TV? Now you know why. Ohio, Indiana, […]

The polar bears will be fine, it’s the farmers we’re worried about

| April 3, 2009

Nicholas Dawidoff has a nice long article on physicist Freeman Dyson at The New York Times Magazine. Dyson is probably the most eminent scientist debunking global warming, but there is much more to Dyson than debunking global warming. The interview is also useful for Dyson’s insight into scientific arrogance and the problematic psychology of obsessive […]