This article on bottlenose attacking and killing porpoises in really brutal ways is weird enough. But it also turns out that dolphins' "crimes" against porpoises are kind of sexual in nature. The killings coincide with the expansion of dolphin territory, but Cotter and Jefferson believe...
Author: Erik Loomis
Very interesting stuff, suggesting our standard estimates of death during the Civil War are significantly underestimated.
A couple additional points to my post of Sunday. 1. My original thoughts on the decline of modern songwriting and its rootlessness in regards to place came after reading this.
David Brooks outdoes himself today. Never have we had such clear insight into the mind of the Beltway elite! Obama is clearly far more effective pandering to the nonexistent center that arouses David Brooks than actually governing!
Like a lot of people, I am perplexed by Netflix splitting its home-delivery service from its online service: Which raises the question: What is Reed Hastings smoking? As far as.
Wow: A study published in 2009 — with Matthew Salzer of the Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona as the lead author — found bristlecone ring-growth rates.
In a huge victory for the United Auto Workers, the union signed a new contract with General Motors that actually improves workers' lives rather than accept rollbacks. Starting workers get a pay raise, everyone gets a bonus in lieu of a pay raise, increased profit...
As articles pour in marking the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, many focus on the Seattle scene of the early 1990s with its flannel and dark lyrics. Of course, Seattle's.
On September 17, 1989, 98 miners and one minister conducted a peaceful takeover of the Pittston Moss 3 Coal Preparation Plant. The Pittston strike was one of the most brutal.
At least as of 2009, my town of Springfield, Oregon had the highest known number of strip clubs per capita of any city in the United States. It has (or had) 7 strip clubs for a town of 58,000 residents. And I would really like...
As Michael Lipsky points out, wilderness is a great thing, but it's not something devoid of human influence. In fact, these are spaces that are heavily managed by humans and.
So the world is going to hell. The Democrats are getting crushed in special elections, Pennsylvania Republicans are seeking to game the system to guarantee Rick Perry's election in 2012,.