Archive for May, 2009
Johnny Rotten Butter
The Mighty Red Knot
What weighs less than half a pound and travels over 9,000 miles each year? The Mighty Red Knot, Calidris canutus, is a truly remarkable bird. It makes one of the longest yearly migrations of any bird, traveling over 15,000 km from its Arctic breeding grounds to Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America, [...]
The President’s Theater
The Environmental Movement Isn’t Big Enough
As politics gets slower, global warming speeds up. The problem isn't feckless officials. Obama has a dream team of climate specialists: Clinton administration EPA veteran Carol Browner as energy czar, Harvard physicist John Holdren as top science advisor, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as Energy secretary and Oakland activist Van Jones as White House green [...]
Hobsbawm on What’s Next
The 20th century is well behind us, but we have not yet learned to live in the 21st, or at least to think in a way that fits it. That should not be as difficult as it seems, because the basic idea that dominated economics and politics in the last century has patently disappeared down [...]