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This map represents the percentage of land area needed to completely power the world using solar energy in 2030. As it notes, obviously is wouldn’t be in one large chunk as depicted but could be broken up if placed in comparable areas.
This makes me think of a recent Ted talk (if you haven’t checked out [...]

I rarely, if ever, save a copy of an article to my computer as I trust the great benevolent Internet to store and make searchable anything I would ever need in the future. But I simply cannot take a gamble with something so precious and beautiful and this commencement speech given my David Foster Wallace. [...]

Srinivasa Ramanujan was born in extreme poverty in India. At the age of 10 he showed a propensity for mathematics, by 13 he had mastered advanced trigonometry, by 17 he was conducting his own research. He discovered over 3,900 results, some of which are used in string theory today.
Alex Tabarrok asks, in a recent Ted [...]

Alex Tabarrok, in this great Ted talk, points out what optimism might have meant coming out of the great depression, and how we blew those expectations to pieces. Do you think we can do it again coming out of the longest, deepest recession since then? I am hopeful.

While I increasingly believe that it will be the growth of markets in Africa that will help them turn the corner, some diasters are so awful and treatments so cheap that it seems impossible not to want to help.
A recent Times article, and accompanying photo essay, tell the story of cheap 20mg zinc tablets, when [...]

My first teaching experience (outside of the Missionary Training Center, which is a world unto itself) was at the Utah State Mental Hospital. I was in the Special Education program at BYU and one of my classmates was a teacher with the 9-12th grade girls (all of the 9-12th grade girls who fell in that [...]

If this story doesn’t blow you away (make sure to read all the way through to the end) and make you this twice about arguments that Canada-style health care is a horrifying nightmare killing people with rationing while our US system is somehow a well-oiled, benevolent machine.

You may be aware of the growing neo-atheism movement with the voices being Professor Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Dan Dennett, Bill Maher, Christopher Hitchens, etc. I have been listening and watching and have even commented about some of my feelings towards this movement (and I will say, comparing the general kindness of the atheists who [...]

Often cited in the debate about health care are the nightmare stories of the long waits and subpar conditions of the socialized systems in the UK and Canada. For all the attention we give these two parts of the world, are you aware there are a number of private, universal health care models around the [...]

Yesterday Amy and I used our date-afternoon (Thanks for babysitting, Mom!) to see Food Inc. at the Broadway Theater. We both went in skeptical,which is kind of ironic as we are both near-vegetarians and eat very little processed food, etc.
To cut to the chase: the movie was breathtaking, and I highly recommend it for everyone!
Anyway, [...]