Oil And Wildlife Can Coexist
This BBC article describes a Shell oilfiled in Gabon where more wildlife congregates than in neighboring wildlife parks.
September 23, 2003
The Vile, Pernicious Broken Window Fallacy
Kudos to Kevin Brancato at Truck and Barter for his terse explanation of the broken window fallacy. I remember after the Mississippi River flooding in 1993, Bruce Babbitt saying something like “well at least the silver lining is that the destruction will create lots of work.” I think I yelled loudly enough and long enough …
New Source Review
At the Volokh Conspiracy, Juan non-Volokh has a good set of posts on the economic and political dynamics underlying criticisms of the recent New Source Review changes, which I discussed in this post.
How Cool Are These?
Future Pundit was full of all sorts of interesting news while I was gone, including this post on using bacteria to extract methane from coal (and a sidenote on carbon sequestration), and this post on new organic materials to make cheap solar panels. One remarkable thing to note in his discussion of the efficiency of …
Cool Things About Our Tuscany Vacation
10. Gorgeous weather — dry, sunny, overnight temps in the 50s, daytime temps in the 70s and 80s. 9. Gelato — ate some every day. The best quality and flavor combo we found was at a place in Florence called Vivoli, where we got the cioccolatta ricca (rich chocolate) and crema d’arancia (orange cream). We …