"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Here’s what our friends at TSA list in their Week At A Glance covering the period between January 9th and 15th, 2012: 4 artfully concealed prohibited items found at checkpoints 17 firearms found at checkpoints 0 passengers were arrested after investigation of suspicious behavior or…
We’re accustomed to having electricity all the time. In fact, it’s a big deal when our power fails for a few hours or more. But there are many parts of the world where people still must routinely depend on candles…
Doctors are supposed to put their patients’ best interests ahead of their own financial concerns but pharmaceutical and medical device makers have been spending a lot of money to influence doctors’ choices for decades. Now there’s a big change coming.…
The General Mining Act allows hard rock mining companies (including foreign-owned ones) to do pretty much whatever they want on a lot of public land, most of it in the West, without paying royalties on what they take. It was signed…
Drew Shindell of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City and his team looked at hundreds of proposed measures to deal with climate change using a model developed by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). A new…
According to Science Daily, Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have developed a new method for creating advanced nanomaterials that could lead to highly efficient refrigerators and cooling systems requiring no refrigerants and no moving parts. The key ingredients…