The strange weather patterns just keep getting stranger.  Hardly a day goes by anymore that I don't find myself muttering "It's...

When I wrote Elegant Technology , getting a handle of the global waste stream seemed almost impossible.  Every day, I could see more things ...

As regular readers know, I was predicting an economic contraction in the very near future last spring.  The reasoning was simple--oil is the...

Once did a thought experiment--what would happen if some hacker managed to cancel some country's external debt? I am pretty sure that ...

Attended a "watch party" last night for a video documentary I had more than a little to do with creating.  It concerns the efforts...

The Netroots Nation (a Dailykos affair) is coming to Minneapolis next week.  So like a good host (which I rarely am) I thought I might post ...

St. Paul is easily the best-kept secret in Minnesota. Yes it is the capitol. Yes is has a bunch of state offices. But generally speaking,...

Most Minnesotans will tell you that the real scenic state is "up Nort." And they most certainly have a point. Anyone who has the...

May 26, 2011 Transfer of 700 DVDs in One Second Only – Highest Bit Rate on a Laser Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

Sorry I have let this news roundup slip for so long. But the latest top news items serve to put the U.S. approach to political economy in st...

There are farmers here in Minnesota who have barely finished their spring planting because it has been so cold and wet.  And now this.  The ...

There is an incredible article up at ZeroHedge, On The Ethics Of Mortgage Loan Default , in which the anonymous author argues that the past ...

At the beginning of the American experiment in self-government, concentrations of wealth and large inequalities in income and wealth were vi...

President Obama's top economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, was on ABC This Week. I'm glad I didn't suffer through watching it. Acc...

For most of my life, I have naively assumed that if some piece of environmental news was bad enough, we would wake up and start getting our ...

Because if a democratically elected government does not control its banks, the banks will certainly control the government. This is by FAR...

Possibly the most conservative government in Europe--Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union in Germany--has decided to phase out nuc...

The workings of the agricultural marketplace are amazingly invisible considering how often we must shop for food.  The wildfires in Russia l...

A new white paper from Ad Age , the advertising industry’s top trade journal, has forthrightly declared that “mass affluence is over” in t...

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine , by Michael Lewis, W.W. Norton & Co., 2010. Since I spend a lot of time driving around the...

The record consumption of carbon fuels must inevitably lead to a record in carbon emissions.  Turns out USA isn't the only place on eart...