Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct

Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct | The Crux
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Eric Michael John­son has a mas­ter’s degree in evo­lu­tion­ary anthro­pol­o­gy focus­ing on great ape behav­ioral ecol­o­gy. He is cur­rent­ly a doc­tor­al stu­dent in the his­to­ry of sci­ence at Uni­ver­si­ty of British Colum­bia look­ing at…

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A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate

A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate
By Climate Guest Blogger on Oct 5, 2012 at 10:30 am, thinkprogress.org

by Bill Beck­er

If Mitt Rom­ney and Barack Obama had been able to look through the tele­vi­sion cam­eras at who was watch­ing their first debate, it undoubt­ed­ly would have been more inter­est­ing than the debate itself.

Rush Lim­baugh…

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Mitt Romney calls Tesla Motors losers

Mitt Romney calls Tesla Motors ‘losers’
By Ryan Singel, wired.co.uk

Politics

In the back and forth of 3 Octo­ber’s pres­i­den­tial debate over tax breaks to ener­gy com­pa­nies, Repub­li­can nom­i­nee Mitt Rom­ney argued that Pres­i­dent Obama’s grants and tax breaks to renew­able ener­gy com­pa­nies equalled 50…

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Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign

Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign
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Leaked fundrais­ing doc­u­ments show Sil­i­con Val­ley emerg­ing as a key source of Demo­c­ra­t­ic money and power. Val­ley money bests Hol­ly­wood.

Pres­i­dent Obama with Google chair­man (and occa­sion­al advi­sor) Eric Schmidt

SAN FRAN­CIS­…

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Mitt Romney: I believe in basic science

Mitt Romney: I believe in basic science, and by “basic science” I mean “cold fusion”
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net

I’m not entire­ly sure what to say about this excerpt from a Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er inter­view other than, “*head­desk*”.

Mitt Romney: I do believe in basic science. I believe in participating in space. I believe in analysis of new sourc…

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How the U.S. Health-Care System Wastes $750 Billion Annually

 

 

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How the U.S. Health-Care System Wastes $750 Billion Annually


Brian Fung, theatlantic.com

 

As we approach health-care system reform, a breakdown of our biggest losses

 

Every year, the Unit­ed States spends eight times as much money on unnec­es­sary health-care costs as the Pen­ta­gon spent for each year of its oper­a­tions in Iraq.

 

T…

 

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How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder

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How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder With Clever Social Media

 

 

Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com

 

Pres­i­dent Barack Obama man­aged to steal an impres­sive amount of Gov. Mitt Rom­ney’s press cov­er­age with a few, cheap social media tricks, includ­ing the most retweet­ed post of the con­ven­tion. In com­par­i­son to the Repub­li­can Nation­al…

 

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Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity

Barack Obama
Barack Obama (Photo credit: jamesomalley)

Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity ever


by Donna Tam, cnet.com

The pres­i­dent breaks all the rules, breaks a Red­dit record, and draws at least 5.3 mil­lion views, news stats reveal.

Pres­i­dent Barack Obama broke all the cam­paign­ing rules when he held an unmod­er­at­ed Q&A ses­sion on one of the…

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Cleantech Experts On Romney’s Energy Plan

Wal Mart
Wal Mart (Photo credit: toweliedell)

Cleantech Experts On Romney’s Energy Plan: ‘A Political Document Not Worth Serious Analysis’


By Climate Guest Blogger on Aug 30, 2012 at 12:21 pm, thinkprogress.org

by Wal­ter Frick, via BostIn­no

The cen­tral ener­gy chal­lenge we face as a nation and a plan­et is the tran­si­tion away from fos­sil fuels, which con­tribute to cli­mate change, to clean sources of ener­gy. The most impor­tant debates …

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An energy model for Boston from European cities

Germany definitely has the right idea: convert ugly old buildings to biofuel factories and kick start the green economy. But we’re still in the mode of “drill baby drill.”

An energy model for Boston – Boston.com.