Reuters reports: In a letter posted on Harvard’s website, President Lawrence Bacow said the school’s endowment had no direct investments in fossil fuel exploration or development companies as of June and will not make such investments in the future, “given …
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From the satirical Borowitz Report in The New Yorker: WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Calling President Joe Biden “an authoritarian dictator of the most reprehensible kind,” Fox News has accused him of using the power of the federal government to improve the …
This clever graffiti artist provided me with another opportunity to remind readers about the progress being made in plant-based meat. Beyond Meat claims that its burger has a “meatier taste” than ever before, and ya know what? They’re right. It’s …
The marketing and PR tactics of Big Oil have changed over the past few years, at least according to the author of the article linked above. For one, no more climate denial. The world is now living with the effects …
As suggested below, Plug-In America co-founder and 2GreenEnergy supporter Paul Scott is pretty cheesed off at Toyota, and for good reason. Yes, their Prius get ~50 MPG, but most of the vehicles in their fleet are gas guzzlers. They sell …
Very few public intellectuals have any patience for Trump and the Republicans in government who still support him. As shown here, novelist Stephen King can be counted on for clever ways of making his point. Where King and I differ …
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The premise of the movie “The Sixth Sense” is that a young boy has the unique, though terrifying ability to see dead people. No one around him, including the psychologist he’s seeing, believes him, though the audience can sometimes see …
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Here, Dr. Coleman offers a solid observation. My response to her: Apparently you’re expecting the anti-science community to make sense and approach life rationally. That’s where you made your first mistake.
California’s state constitution allows for something called a “recall election,” i.e., an opportunity for voters to unseat a governor and replace him with someone else. Unlike impeachment, no charges are brought, nor does any specific reason need to be given, …
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Borowitz continues: “Just spitballing here, but what if we mandated that every visitor got bitten by a dog or poked with a stick?” he said. Just brilliant. But seriously, what’s the benefit of being utterly reviled? Having entertainers canceling concerts? …
