At a time when women’s reproductive rights are under attack on many fronts, the last thing we need is for the Obama administration to join in.
Science, Tech, Environment
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Made in America — Again
Leaders discuss returning manufacturing to the U.S. in a Prospect roundtable.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Just TELL Me You’re Gonna Invade My Privacy
Federal regulators have reached a settlement with Facebook over privacy violations—but it’s just a slap on the wrist for an industry that regularly sells user data.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Showman
This “lost” interview shows Steve Jobs as an incredibly charismatic figure.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
One Small Step for Climate Scientists
Researcher gains legal standing to sue for privacy against global-warming skeptics.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Robots Are Coming!
Google, we learn from Monday’s New York Times, has a secret lab in an undisclosed location in the Bay Area where it is developing robots. We don’t know what the Google-oids are working on there, but we do know that the company has developed and built a driverless car that has already traversed 100,000 miles […]
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Climate Control
As their ranks diminish, global warming skeptics target scientists
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Steve Jobs and the Chinese Wall
The former Apple CEO might have been an innovator, but there’s one thing he didn’t invent: exploiting foreign workers.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Businesspeople Don’t Always Make Good Politicians
The Huffington Post has early access to the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs, which – among many other things – reveals the Apple CEO’s distaste for President Obama and his policies: When he [Jobs] finally relented and they met at the Westin San Francisco Airport, Jobs was characteristically blunt. He seemed to have transformed […]
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Everything Is Culture
The environmental story of the day concerns a project started by a climate skeptic named Richard Muller, a physicist who was so convinced that actual climate scientists were distorting or misreading the data that he started his own project, called the Berkeley Earth Science Temperature project, to double-check them. Climate deniers were excited — at […]
