The other day, I watched the documentary Sputnik Mania. It was an interesting piece about the impact of Sputnik and how it moved the U.S. and USSR closer to a nuclear war. Generally, a solid documentary. But I am curious about one thing. The filmmakers...
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It seems so. Essentially, the easy to reach coal seams are disappearing, creating the necessity for extremely destructive methods like mountaintop removal in order to reach what is left. With.
Now this is fascinating. What's particularly interesting is that the decline of pumpkin beer in the early 19th century was not about temperance, but about a modernizing nation turning its.
I would be remiss to not mention the death of the great African environmentalist, feminist, and activst Wangari Maathai. The Kenyan activist began her activist career by figuring out that paying women to plant trees would both provide employment for women and protect the land....
Atrios points us to this piece on supermarkets pulling back from the self-checkout stands. I am very glad to see this. As Atrios points out, these things are nothing more.
While I often like Mark Bittman, like a lot of the recent generation of food writers (and, all too often, environmental writers more broadly), he talks down to the poor..
Joel Garreau is one of the most important popular writers about urbanism over the past two decades. His influential book, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, described the development of so-called Edge Cities, far suburbs largely disconnected from the central city that arise out...
I don't often talk about individual historians because most of you won't care, but it's worth noting the death of Oscar Handlin, a historian who did more than anyone to.
We don't often think of professors as the most proletarianized of workforces; professors don't usually think of themselves this way. But professors have been on the defensive against college and.
Kentucky has a very impressive set of politicians for its size. Like most southern states, it's probably overperformed over the years, particularly as compared to many northern states. 1. Henry Clay. One of the towering politicians of pre-Civil War America. Secretary of State. Leading Whig....
There's a fascinating article up at History News Network calling for us to rethink our traditional narrative of party shifts in the mid-twentieth century, arguing that it was not the.
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.