agriculture

Every time humans invent better ways of doing things, the economy gets a little bigger. This is a simple idea, really. It started with the making of tools then agriculture, followed by the scientific revolution and the invention of the printing press.
Eli Whitney’s musket demonstration led to the industrial revolution, the manufacturing economy, the Era [...]

Our spotless sun - get ready for global cooling

Michael Silence and some others seem to be perplexed at a recent speech in which Sen.

From a reader of Andrew Sullivan’s

You cannot underestimate the power of women needing to vote for Senator Clinton. In conversations with coworkers and friends, this need starts with women who are now forty years old and increases exponentially with age. It is almost a feeling they cannot betray womanhood by voting for any man. The historic nature of th

• Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
  Wow, great article on the impact of our national meat addiction. Here's the main point: If price spikes don’t change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gr