It’s not exactly the torture memos, but it’s something (via NYT):
Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead [...]
Beautiful retrospective on the future of the past (or is that the past of the future) and how Walt Disney got us to the moon.
(There’s much richer social history out there, but the sequence of images is priceless.)
Happy Earth Day!
Antiquated tech gear sings “Bohemian Rhapsody.” No, really. There’s no joke.
It’s really kind of lovely. There’s the human-tech interface doing its thing. Wow.
Carry on.
Four months ago, greenhouse gasses were simply minding their own business, more or less. Today, they are a threat to human health (via MSNBC.com):
WASHINGTON – Having received White House backing, the Environmental Protection Agency declared Friday that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a significant threat to human health and thus will be listed [...]
We need to do some thinking about how we get, process, judge, and share information on the environment. It’s a unifying field, with infinite perturbations, so there is no “solution,” per se. But there is an aesthetic of information flow and cultural adaptiveness that we can work toward. Doctorow suggests MacKay’s new book fits into [...]
The author of “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” may have simply forgotten that he’s still alive and writing for the New York Times Health section:
Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory
Suppose scientists could erase certain memories by tinkering with a single substance in the brain. Could make you forget a chronic fear, [...]
Do I need to say anything else? I thought not.
