"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
As National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spokesman Christopher Vaccaro put it: In many ways, 2011 rewrote the record books. For the Guardian’s series “2011 In Review”,  John Vidal sums up the past year. The year 2011 was another ecologically tumultuous…
In the streets of Manhattan, during a weekend in late September, the faces of steel and concrete behemoths staring down at me, I quickly weaved my way through stopped cars. I moved with several thousand others. A collective elation filled…
California’s stringent cap and trade rules were scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 1 2012 but a federal judge blocked it on Thursday. In my view, California’s cap and trade plans are unworkable, easily gamed, would raise energy prices…
A fuel-cell laptop could run for weeks without a recharge.
The automation of work once thought the sole domain of humans continues. Software can scan documents and prepare legal briefs now. Big farming is using automated machines. Google has a car that can drive itself in San Francisco. How much…