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In Germany, utility companies pay homeowners and businesses for power generated by alternative energies that is fed into the electricity grid. Should the U.S. take note?
"Sir Isaac had a whole other full-time career that he kept largely hidden from view but that rivaled and sometimes surpassed his devotion to celestial mechanics."
"Peter Diamond's Nobel prize in economics is an unusual example of useful economics combined with timely politics." The Guardian on the would-be government appointee.
“Aboriginal Creation myths tell of the legendary totemic beings who had wandered over [Australia] in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path -- birds, animals, […]
“I tend to think of the exhibitions I do as a loose accumulation of paintings with no single theme—like a variety show,” artist Glenn Brown said in 2007. “A comedy […]
When a major earthquake struck Haiti in January, it caused unbelievable damage and many created a humanitarian nightmare. But it also served as a wake-up call for other Caribbean nations […]
At the heart of every galaxy like our own Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole, but scientists are unsure which develops first.
Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle says that teenagers who are raped should make lemonade out of lemons by bearing their attackers' children. Angle is one of several senate candidates who […]
Not every scientific paper is great work, as any scientist will tell you. But shoddy work gets ignored or quickly debunked. There is an enormous incentive for scientists to debunk […]
Over at the NY Times's Green blog, Todd Woody has an update on the Proposition 23 race, reporting that environmentalists opposed to the ballot measure have opened a sizable fund-raising […]
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The country's fervent Christianity and respect for family is why "buggery" remains illegal in the country, says the prime minister. But "we are tolerant provided that homosexual lifestyle does not […]
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"Leaders must be prepared to look at their people and say, 'No look, you put me here to lead, this is the direction in which I think we ought to […]
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A recent dispute over the extradition of drug kingpin Christopher Coke strained the country's relations with the Obama Administration. Prime Minister Golding says they're on the mend.
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Prime Minister Golding says that drug-related crime in Jamaica and other countries in Latin America should not be seen in isolation: "It is a global problem. And therefore it’s something […]
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Jamaica has been one of the more dangerous countries in the world for years, but an intensive anti-crime push has brought the murder rate down 42% since May. To fight […]
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The prime minister says the tragedy in Haiti demonstrated the need to maintain strict building codes and to have disaster-management measures in place.
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The country introduced "very, very tight fiscal measures" to reduce its budget, cut its deficit, and rein in government borrowing, says the prime minister.
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A conversation with the Prime Minister of Jamaica.
Physicist and Big Think blogger Michio Kaku is the closest thing the world has to real-life wizard. With his shocking white hair, he makes prophesies about fantastic technologies that science […]
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A conversation with the CUNY theoretical physicist.