Pierce on Politico's latest attack on Nate Silver and crazy things like "math" and "standards of evidence." Bonus points for Jim Nabors reference.
Author: Erik Loomis
An outstanding collection of old Dutch work safety posters. Of course I liked the timber mill one from 1940 best.
The state of Louisiana (and the voters themselves) have cut off funding for the last operating ferry in New Orleans. Big deal, right? Who takes the ferry anymore? The answer.
On June 16, 1918, the socialist leader and former head of the American Railway Union Eugene Debs gave a speech in Canton, Ohio, criticizing the United States' actions in World War I and urging resistance to the draft. Two weeks later, Debs was arrested under...
After yet another pitcher, this time Alex Cobb of Tampa Bay, goes down from a liner to the head, it's hardly unreasonable to say that pitchers need to wear helmets.
The West fertilizer plant disaster has faded from the headlines but that doesn't mean our national workplace inspection system has improved at all. On Thursday, a petrochemical plant exploded in.
Here's what happens when workplaces don't have unions. An employee of Sewon America, an auto parts supplier for Kia, allegedly died Wednesday, May 29, after working in extreme heat on the company’s “project weld line” in LaGrange, according to another Sewon employee who spoke with...
Someone brought this up in comments a few months ago but I never posted what is by far the greatest traffic safety film ever made. The great stuff is in.
Poverty is very expensive. Because of the flat rates for most goods and services (personally, I've long thought that we should all have a card where our gross yearly income.
I found this interesting. FICTION 1. Susann, The Love Machine 2. Roth, Portnoy's Complaint 3. Puzo, The Godfather 4. Nabokov, Ada 5. Crichton, The Andromeda Strain 6. Davis, The Pretenders 7. Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five 8. Macdonald, The Goodbye Look 9. Woiwode, What I'm Going to Do,...
Really, it can't happen fast enough. Deaths exceeded births among non-Hispanic white Americans for the first time in at least a century, according to new census data, a benchmark that.
Esther Cepeda defends Whole Foods disciplining two Spanish-speaking workers violating its English-only policy while on the job in a very special way. But say they were. What’s the problem? Not.