- Elizabeth Kolbert: The G.O.P. vs. the climate.
Darrell Issa, a Republican representative from California, is one of the richest men in Congress. He made his money selling car alarms, which is interesting, because he has twice been accused of auto theft. (Issa has said that he had a “colorful youth.”) As the ranking minority member . . ....
- Elizabeth Kolbert: A nuclear disaster in Japan, and energy policy in America.
The age of atomic energy could be said to have begun, literally, with the wave of a wand. On September 6, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was vacationing in Denver, passed a pole with a gleaming tip over a cabinet full of electronic equipment. This “neutron wand” . . ....
- California Auto Transport Options and Tips
Whether you want to move to California, move out of California, or transport a vehicle that you bought, to your home in California, shipping that vehicle or vehicles always needs a little planning. Perhaps you'd like to send your vehicle via door to door transportation, and an enclosed or open trailer, or perhaps you have a piece of heavy equipment to transport. Whatever company you choose,...
- Lupita Jones – The Pride of Mexico
On September 6, 1968, Maria Guadalupe Jones Garay popularly known as Lupita Jones was born in Baja California, Mexico. Twenty-three years later, Jones gave pride to Mexico flag when she became the first and Mexican to win the prestigious title of Miss Universe in 1993. Until this day, no other Mexican is able to win the prestigious title again....
- Good News For the Motor Industry
The good news is that September sales are up in comparison to September of last year. This comes from a recent report that shows from the beginning of September when the new 09 plates became available and during the full month, approximately 368,000 vehicles were registered with the new '59 number plate. According to the SMMT, which is the government's vehicle scrapping scheme, the offerings...
- 1968 Chevy Camaro
The 1968 Chevy Camaro is part of the first generation of these "pony" cars created to give competition to the Ford Mustang. The car is based off of GM's "F" body platform as a rear wheel drive vehicle....
- Unraveling the Whooping Cough Epidemic
In California, this year started out much like many others for the public health detectives who keep an eye on infectious diseases. But by the end of September, nine California babies were dead from whooping cough, a highly contagious disease that’s preventable by a vaccine....
- The Top 10 Most Famous Women With the First Name of Elisabeth and Elizabeth
The most famous women (based on online chatter) with the first name Elisabeth or Elizabeth are: 10. Elizabeth Dole - United States Senator from North Carolina. 9. Elizabeth Bennet - Fictional main Character in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice 8....
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Is there hope for our overfished oceans?
The Atlantic bluefin tuna is shaped like a child’s idea of a fish, with a pointy snout, two dorsal fins, and a rounded belly that gradually tapers toward the back. It is gunmetal blue on top, and silvery on the underside, and its tail looks like a sickle . . ....
- Elizabeth Kolbert: What is the limit to human population growth?
Sometime on October 31st, the world’s population will hit seven billion. The baby who does the trick will most likely appear in India, where the number of births per minute—fifty-one—is higher than in any other nation. But he or she could also be . . ....
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Ted Danson’s bid to save the earth’s oceans.
Ted Danson was a bit groggy when he arrived at Whole Foods in Tribeca the other day. It was 9 A.M. and there were only a few shoppers wheeling their carts through the massifs of produce, the hill towns of olives, the towers of tea. When they glanced up from . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Elizabeth Kolbert: What happened between the Neanderthals and us?
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, is a large, mostly glass building shaped a bit like a banana. The institute sits at the southern edge of the city, in a neighborhood that still very much bears the stamp of its East German past. If you walk down . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Is there a quick fix for the climate?
In the eighteen-sixties, the quickest, or at least the most popular, way to get around New York was in a horse-drawn streetcar. The horsecars, which operated on iron rails, offered a smoother ride than the horse-drawn omnibuses they replaced. (The Herald described the experience of travelling by . . ....
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Marcellus Shale, hydraulic fracturing, and the E.P.A.
Americans have never met a hydrocarbon they didn’t like. Oil, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, tar-sands oil, coal-bed methane, and coal, which is, mostly, carbon—the country loves them all, not wisely, but too well. To the extent that the United States has an energy . . ....
- Elizabeth Kolbert: What can policymakers learn from happiness research?
In 1978, a trio of psychologists curious about happiness assembled two groups of subjects. In the first were winners of the Illinois state lottery. These men and women had received jackpots of between fifty thousand and a million dollars. In the second group were victims of devastating accidents. Some had . . ....
- Elizabeth Kolbert: The extreme-weather forecast.
When President Barack Obama arrived in Joplin, Missouri, on May 29th, the sun was shining. He toured one of the neighborhoods that the previous week’s tornado had destroyed, then spoke at a memorial service for the dead. (By late last week, the official toll was a hundred and . . ....
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Rumors in an age of unreason.
This past June, Representative Mike Castle held a town-hall meeting at a community center in Georgetown, Delaware. Castle, a Republican, is the state’s only House member, and he had invited half a dozen health-care experts to take questions from his constituents. A woman in a red . . ....
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Are skeptics winning the climate propaganda war?
Joe Bastardi, who goes by the title “expert senior forecaster” at AccuWeather, has a modest proposal. Virtually every major scientific body in the world has concluded that the planet is warming, and that greenhouse-gas emissions are the main cause. Bastardi, who holds a bachelor’s degree . . ....
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Fossils from the Cretaceous period in Monmouth County, NJ.
If you had happened to visit Monmouth County, New Jersey, sixty-six million years ago—admittedly a big “if ”—you would have found the place to be very different from what it is today. First off, it didn’t really exist. Like most of the . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Elizabeth Kolbert: President Obama, gas prices, and global warming.
Last week, Mitt Romney, who, it now seems, is going to become the Republican nominee whether anybody likes it or not, called on President Barack Obama to fire three of his Cabinet members: the Energy Secretary, Steven Chu; the Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar; and the head of the Environmental Protection . . ....
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Leading Causes
On October 13, 1992, the United States became the world’s first industrialized nation to ratify a treaty on climate change. The treaty committed its parties to the important, if awkwardly worded goal of preventing “dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” In acknowledgment of the fact . . ....
- Celebrating the Beauty of the Universe
An annual international beauty contest and one of the most famous beauty contests at present is the Miss Universe. Run by the organization, this beauty contest started in 1952 by Pacific Mills, a clothing company based in California. The Miss Universe began as part of Kayser-Roth then later became part of Gulf and Western Industries....
- Celebrating the Beauty of the Universe
An annual international beauty contest and one of the most famous beauty contests at present is the Miss Universe. Run by the organization, this beauty contest started in 1952 by Pacific Mills, a clothing company based in California. The Miss Universe began as part of Kayser-Roth then later became part of Gulf and Western Industries....
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Steven Pinker’s history of violence in decline.
Nearly everyone in Norway owns a cell phone, so when the shooting started on the island of Utøya, at around five o’clock in the afternoon on July 22nd, calls immediately went out. Panicked teen-agers attending a Labor Party summer camp on the island dialled the . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Procreation vs. overpopulation.
In 1832, Charles Knowlton, a doctor in Ashfield, Massachusetts, published a short book with a long title: “Fruits of Philosophy: The Private Companion of Young Married People, by a Physician.” Knowlton, who was thirty-one, was a “freethinker” and, by the standards of the Berkshires, an . . ....
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Procreation vs. overpopulation.
In 1832, Charles Knowlton, a doctor in Ashfield, Massachusetts, published a short book with a long title: “Fruits of Philosophy: The Private Companion of Young Married People, by a Physician.” Knowlton, who was thirty-one, was a “freethinker” and, by the standards of the Berkshires, an . . ....
- Innovations in Auto Glass, Part I
Having the opportunity to run a franchise company in the auto sector has been quite an interesting job indeed. During my time as the CEO of The Car Wash Guys we ran a small team of researchers who gathered industry information from where ever we could find it....
- Elizabeth Edwards Dies of Cancer
Elizabeth Edwards, 61, died of cancer this morning at her home in North Carolina, according to media reports....
