Random links
- Clean Fuel Worsens Climate Impacts for Some Vehicle Engines
- Beware what you do in attempting to clean up the environment. Going "green" by changing fuel didn't work in this case didn't work due to the inefficiency of the engines that it was put in.
- Muhammad on the High Seas
- "The late spate of piracy off the coast of Somalia has been analyzed so far almost entirely in political and economic terms ... [b]ut ... Religion, it turns out, should be factored into the piracy problem." - (HT: Albert Mohler)
- A farewell talk for the graduate students
- "What if organic, local, traditional and artisanal products don’t actually deliver a healthier, more secure and sustainable food system? This is not a hypothetical question. Right now, the preponderance of evidence is pointing in that direction." (HT: Freakonomics)
- The empathy deficit
- "... behind all this communication and connectedness, something is missing. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, found that college students today are 40 percent less empathetic than they were in 1979, with the steepest decline coming in the last 10 years."