Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month February 2010
Killer whale
If a dog killed three people, they’d put it down, right?
Sustainable biofuel from oranges and tobacco
Florida alone generates enough orange peels to produce about 200 million gallons of ethanol yearly. The secret ingredient is a tobacco enzyme derived by cloning genes from fungi and bacteria, which is far less expensive than creating synthetic enzymes. The…
Chile earthquake
Journalist Marc Cooper is using Twitter to relay news about the quake. (He lived there as a translator for Allende, barely escaping with his life.) Here’s a couple of his tweets WaPo gallery of emotional photos One photo shows several…
Residents jam grocery stores, gas stations as sirens wail across Hawaii
The tsunami is expected to hit Hilo at 11 am local time with a height of 9 feet, certainly dangerous but thankfully nothing like their devastating tsunami of 1946 with its 46 ft high surge. But no one is taking…