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Here are some unemployment charts I put together via Ycharts. Youth Unemployment Rates US vs.
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Laughing at those who laugh at science Chris Mooney had one of his usual good Point of Inquiry shows back in November that I just caught, an interview with Michael Gordin , who wrote The Pseudoscience Wars. Gordin considers the idiot Velikovsky to be one of the originators of modern pseudoscience
The Financial Times reports Poland opens way to euro referendum . " Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, took a big political gamble on Tuesday when he opened the door to a referendum on joining the euro, in the face of strong public opposition to the common currency.
A NPR report " Unfit For Work " notes the startling rise in those on disability. Here are some interesting facts from the article. Every month 14 million Americans receive a disability check.
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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid.
So our water district staff presented how they thought we could reach carbon neutrality by 2020. Depending on how you do the numbers, we became carbon neutral without even trying. A lot depends on this: ( Full presentation via scrolling to March 26 2013, Item 4.1) That’s how much energy’s used to cradle-to-grave a water drop from the Sierras to the outflow of a wastewater treatment plant