Global warming, empty bellies

"\"TweetShareShareA few months ago, Micah Williams, TEDxMileHigh’s newest (and only full-time) employee, asked if I might write a blog post about climate change. I said “sure,” and then I thought about what I could say about...

Richard Mourdock and God’s intent

"TweetShareShareIndiana Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock lit up the media\u00a0yesterday\u00a0with the following comment: The only exception I have to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a lon...

Oil Shale Decision Right On

"TweetShareShareThe U.S. Department of Interior’s\u00a0decision to limit land leases on oil shale \u2014 a euphemism for rock mixed with kerogen with the energy content of french fries \u2014 was wise. I wrote up a story pitch after the Bush...

Imaging Earth, 2012 vs. 1972

"\"TweetShareShareNASA has released a phenomenal image: Taken by the the Suomi NPP spacecraft on January 4. Ball Aerospace built the NPP spacecraft; the instrument, the snappily named\\u00a0Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), is...

Health care rationing is good

"\"TweetShareShareFor a reminder of the big picture issue in health care, former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm’s Sunday opinion piece in the Denver Post is well worth a look. Lamm has been writing about this issue since the mid-1990s, and federal...

Space budgets in the news

"TweetShareShareWhy do space missions go over budget? John Kelly of Florida Today did a solid summary of some of the key issues in his Saturday column, based, it looks like, on a Government Accountability Office report on the same topic. The key p...

Pulling the plug on Afghanipakistan

"\"TweetShareShareFor those who had forgotten,\\u00a0The New Yorker‘s\\u00a0most recent issue has\\u00a0reminded us once again that it is America’s\\u00a0best magazine. You’ve got Anthony Lane visiting Pixar, Malcolm Gladwell...

Five bucks well spent

"\"TweetShareShareThe CU Center for Environmental Journalism forwarded a note with this link this morning, to a Wired.com article about how Al Gore and Push Up Press are aiming to “blow up the book.” As someone who recently wrote a...

To tax or not to tax

"TweetShareSharePresident Obama’s remarks on fiscal policy today put forth a few numbers worth committing to memory before the forthcoming, protracted budget debates: “So here\u2019s the truth.\u00a0 Around two-thirds of our budget ...