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Monthly Archives: September 2018
Opinion | The Amazon on the Brink – By Philip Fearnside and Richard Schiffman – NYT
By Philip Fearnside and Richard Schiffman Dr. Fearnside is an ecologist based in Brazil; Mr. Schiffman is an environmental journalist. Sept. 26, 2018 The Trump administration is not the only government that has been busy slashing funds for environmental protection. … Continue reading
Opinion | Is Merkel to Blame for Brexit? – by Jochen Bittner – NYT
For those of us who still want to see a vibrant, unified Europe, our best hope for the moment is the faint chance for a second referendum on Brexit. If Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan on how to leave does … Continue reading
Picturing a ton of CO2 – By Bill Chameides / EDF Blogs / 2007
By Bill Chameides / EDF Blogs / Published: February 20, 2007 Tons of CO2 pollution. We are always hearing about how many tons of CO2 pollution we emit. The average American car emits about seven tons of CO2 in a … Continue reading
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The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far – By Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti – NYT
But to travel back to 2016 and trace the major plotlines of the Russian attack is to underscore what we now know with certainty: The Russians carried out a landmark intervention that will be examined for decades to come. Acting … Continue reading
Opinion | The Broken Pieces of Middle East Peace – by Thomas Friedman – The New York Times
. .. . An agreement by the Palestinians and America’s Arab allies on their minimum foundations for negotiations, adds Ross, gives Palestinians cover to come back to the table and puts pressure on the Trump team to deliver a credible … Continue reading
Civil says the future of media is blockchains and cryptocurrencies – By Mathew Ingram – Columbia Journalism Review
Civil’s infrastructure, including its version of a crypto-currency, is based on Ethereum. When the platform launches in the spring, it will do an “initial coin offering” that will give its staff—including a number of journalists the company is in the … Continue reading
What Is Bitcoin- and How Does It Work? – The New York Times
What is Bitcoin mining? Bitcoin mining refers to the process through which new Bitcoins are created and given to computers helping to maintain the network. The computers involved in Bitcoin mining are in a sort of computational race to process … Continue reading
The Sixth Extinction? | by Elizabeth Kolbert – The New Yorker
he town of El Valle de Antón, in central Panama, sits in the middle of a volcanic crater formed about a million years ago. The crater is almost four miles across, but when the weather is clear you can see … Continue reading
The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis | – by John Cassidy – The New Yorker
There is much more to the story, though, than this uplifting Washington-based narrative. In “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World,” the Columbia economic historian Adam Tooze points out that we are still living with the consequences … Continue reading
Opinion | First- a Financial Crisis. Then a Geopolitical Crisis. – by David Leonhardt – NYT
The 10th anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse — the signature moment of our modern financial crisis — will arrive on Saturday. Media organizations and book publishers are using the anniversary to look back over the last decade, and one … Continue reading
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