Posted on Jun 2, 2014 | Comments Off on Solar Power Customers Will Have To Start Paying – And That’s A Good Thing For Green Energy
Imagine this as a business model: You own a large potato farm. You have workers who grow and process the potatoes, you hire people to pay them, you have a sales force to sell them and then you pay trucks to ship them and have people to collect the money. You have fixed and variable costs and you charge enough money to pay those and make a profit. You have created jobs.The government decides that...
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Posted on May 9, 2014 | Comments Off on 3,100,000 Vs 0: GMOs Win
Vermont is still milking the slavery thing.Yes, yes, you were first to ban it. It's easy to ban something you never had in the first place. That does not mean you are right in everything you ban and, let's face it, comparing GMOs to slavery is a little weird, even for Vermont.Nonetheless, “We’re first again,” gushes organic farmer Will Allen in The Economist, which makes the rest of the...
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Posted on May 7, 2014 | Comments Off on Atrazine And The Forever War On Science
I'll tell you up front, I am not a big fan of chemicals.It's not that I have chemophobia, or any science-phobia, I instead have that special sort of elitism that is available to people who have just been lucky enough to not need chemicals. I don't even like to take aspirin and I have that luxury because I haven't needed to take any drugs for a recurring condition, so it's really easy for me to...
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Posted on Apr 29, 2014 | Comments Off on Vermont’s Problematic GMO Bill
Genetically modified foods are so common that it seems a little strange to put a label on, basically, everything. But some states are trying.Vermont just did. The governor says he is signing it. And it's a weird law, even from a policy point of view. From a legal point of view, the FDA is not going to be happy about yet another unscientific piecemeal approach to arbitrary food labels....
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Posted on Apr 22, 2014 | Comments Off on The Supreme Court Undermines Racial Preferences For College Admissions
In Science Left Behind I wrote a segment about a national discrimination issue that was eroding not only science, but the very notion of fairness in our culture.No, it wasn't the lack of Republicans in faculty jobs at universities. It was instead that, for decades, schools had been using skin color to routinely impede the chances for the best students to get admitted. They were using racial...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2014 | Comments Off on For Earth Day, Do Your Part: Fly Somewhere To Talk About Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Apparently the EPA has not yet discovered how to do a video conference.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that Administrator Gina McCarthy will promote President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution, slow the effects of climate change and leave a cleaner environment for future generations by doing an Earth Week Tour, flying around to talk about how we...
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