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By Yoram|2021-05-19T01:12:36-06:00October 22nd, 2009|Blog|0 Comments
  • UW student David Corrado in the news for the UW Climate Action Plan.
  • Concussion Trauma Risk Seen in Amateur Athlete, following up on a scary Malcolm Gladwell article in the New Yorker.
  • Global temperatures from the UK Met Office.
  • A Case of Chronic Denial, about chronic fatigue syndrome.
  • Hopes Fade for Comprehensive Climate Treaty
  • More bad news for the Superfreakonomics authors from a pretty devastating Bloomberg article. Also, the funniest quote of the whole affair, courtesy of maureendowdsemailfriend@gmail.com as quoted by Brad DeLong: “While eco-cultists like Al Gore keep referring to a 6 degree C rise in global temperature as some sort of doomsday scenario, the agnostics grumble that the temperature of the earth is already 287 Kelvin, so we’re talking about a mere 2% increase… I can haz best-seller?”
  • New “opt-out” fee garners $1.4 million so far. Behavioral economics and Nudge put to work for state parks.

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