What Obama Wants, By PAUL KRUGMAN: "In last weekend’s presidential address... Mr. Obama had this to say about the economics of the budget: “Government has [...]

Tiantongyuan, where I'll be living in Beijing (along with 399,999 other people!). Another photo. Microsoft Takes to Cloud to Ward Off Competition New Drugs Fight [...]

Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight Chinese Gadfly Emerges From Jail With Uncharacteristic Silence Bacteria develop restraint for survival in a rock-paper-scissors community [...]

The Human Face of Economics, an IMF profile of George Akerlof The End of Abundance: economic solutions to water scarcity, a book by David Zetland [...]

More Trade and More Aid: "rethinking how we help displaced workers in order to revive political support for the free trade our economy needs" (Macro2) [...]

Bombshell: High and rising price for carbon pollution emerges as credible deficit reduction strategy China’s Economy Slows, but Inflation Still Looms Groundwater Depletion Is Detected [...]

Some of my favorites from May 7 2011, photos by Natalie Cass of Cass Studios: The house The lovely backyard The happy couple My family [...]

New United Nations world population projections based on UW research; see also World Population Prospects, the 2010 Revision and the amazing graph that's part of [...]

Study: China's energy consumption will stabilize (in the 2030s) Stuff relating to the carbon pricing conference: map of Health Sciences, UW Liver Care Center (with [...]

* British Columbia Survives 3 Years and $848 Million Worth of Carbon Taxes * Speaking out in China is not so easy: The Dissident’s Wife. [...]