Bloomburg created a fascinating graphic explorating how America uses the land within its borders. Definitely worth a look. Overview (but this really doesn’t do it justice): Type Acreage (millions) Percentage Pasture/range 654M 35% Forest 539M 28% Cropland 392M 21% Special Use 169M 9% Urban 69M 4% Miscellaneous 69M 4% And 80% of the American population…
My friend Meghan Hyland pointed this video out to me a couple days ago. Here’s how I responded to Meghan: “Brilliant stuff, Meghan. I love the mix of openness, brutal self-awareness, and calm empathy, spiced with a delicately fierce brand of humor. Thanks for sharing, I’m certainly going to check out more of her stuff.”…
Give me (you are not American) Your poor, your (you are not American) Huddled masses yearning to breathe free (you are not American) Give me the wretched refuse (they are not American) (you are not American) of your teeming shore. We are a melting pot. (you are not American) We are a shining light.…
I think this article describes what I have spent the better part of my adult life pursuing. “An engaged, nondefensive form of attention to the present moment… a pursuit of understanding other perspectives… increased empathy and compassion… a desire to view the present moment as part of an ongoing life journey.” A quick read, and…
My friend Jerry Hoffmeister posted an article from Scientific American on Facebook: We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 Carbon dioxide has not reached this height in millions of years… Right now we’re on track to create a climate unseen in 50 million years by mid-century. This is quite terrifying, if you understand…
That’s about one in 20,000. So 99.9942% of climate scientists agree that man is changing the climate. How, then, has nearly everyone from President Obama on down come to buy the claim of a 97 percent consensus? The figure comes from a 2013 article in Environmental Research Letters by Cook et al. titled “Quantifying the…
So I recently came across an insightful if overly alarmist article from The American Conservative regarding the question of whether to apply anti-monopoly laws to technology companies. Exploring whether more deliberate anti-monopoly policies for digital technologies are warranted is useful, and many of the points the article makes (about network effects, privacy, etc) are things…
A Facebook friend recently posted a meme that suggested people who want gun control are afraid of guns, and that fear is irrational if they aren’t also afraid of cars. “I’m afraid of guns!” “Why?” “They can kill you!” “So why aren’t you afraid of your car?” “Because I learned how to drive it.” “Exactly…”…
