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Brain Bar Budapest via blog posts

An old friend of mine touched base a couple of months back, wondering if I’d like to do some writing for Brain Bar Budapest. My first question was: for Brain-what? As freelancers tend to do, I said yes. They were looking for blog posts...

June 22, 2016 toddneff 0 Comments

$15 an hour is $5 a day (inflation adjusted)

While I’m personally all for a $15 minimum wage (economic theory be damned), I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about it. But just now, I was chaining away, mentally speaking, and came upon an interesting comparison. The initial...

April 15, 2016 toddneff 0 Comments

Political voyeurs in New Hampshire, 16 years back

With the New Hampshire primary happening today, I figured it’s time to dust off some of the only presidential political reporting I’ve ever done (I covered George W. Bush’s visit to the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden...

February 9, 2016 toddneff 2000 election, Bill Bradley, Fletcher School, George W. Bush, John McCain, New Hampshire Primary, Steve Forbes 1 Comments

My solar panels save their volume in coal every year

Given the success of the global climate talks in Paris, it’s time to post a hyper-local piece on our household’s greatest carbon-mitigation endeavor: our solar panels. Specifically, I got a wild hair to compare the volume occupied by...

December 15, 2015 toddneff coal, solar 2 Comments

In the Words of General Jack Galvin, 1929-2015

John R. “Jack” Galvin, the son of a bricklayer who rose to become  NATO supreme allied commander of European forces and dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy died on September 25, of complications of Parkinson’s disease. New York Times...

October 2, 2015 toddneff 1 Comments

AVs Drive Themselves Straight into a Service Model

AVs (not audiovisual, but rather autonomous vehicles) are poised to change the developed world. It seems that about everyone who looks at transportation comes to the same conclusion. It takes a bit of explaining as to why, and a recent piece I...

July 9, 2015 toddneff 0 Comments

Lee Kuan Yew and the ’30 percent’

Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore, died early Monday Singapore time at age 91. I had, despite living in Asia (Japan) for three years in the mid-1990s, never heard of him until a fall 1998 Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy class on...

March 22, 2015 toddneff 0 Comments

An epiphany while knocking on doors for Udall

As a newspaper journalist, I wasn’t allowed to actively engage in politics, and I’m still working my way into it. I give trivial amounts to the Democratic Party, for which I in turn receive dozens of emails a day asking for additional trivial...

November 3, 2014 toddneff 0 Comments

Fresh (Baked) news on weed and the developing brain

Abigail Sullivan Moore’s New York Times piece on a new study on the effects of marijuana and the developing brain is another arrow in the increasingly crammed quiver of evidence that weed and growing brains don’t mix. This one shows...

October 30, 2014 toddneff 0 Comments

Crazy awesome scary NYT graphic on birth weight/education/race/mom-age on academic performance

The NYT blog “The Upshot” put together a story and a dynamic chart published Oct. 10 that encapsulates a ton more information than at first glance. Play with the variables and think about what it’s really telling us. The story...

October 12, 2014 toddneff birth weight, class race and performance, Education, New York Times 0 Comments

Electricity pricing can be interesting. Really.

I’ve  done some writing for the Rocky Mountain Institute this year, which I’ve enjoyed because a) I have a ton of respect for Amory Lovins and his organization’s work (Natural Capitalism and Reinventing Fire being a couple of...

August 26, 2014 toddneff 0 Comments

Compliance, COSTAR, a dead teenager named Neff, and the Gettysburg Address

After finishing up my moderating duties at Compliance Week 2014, I put on my running stuff and headed to the National Mall, destination National Air and Space Museum. The aim was to see something very specific, an instrument brought back from the...

May 21, 2014 toddneff 12 Comments
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