It happens to me every few years (though hasn't happened yet with the chip card). I think three or four times in the past 10 years. The banks are very fast to catch it, and it's just an inconvenience...
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It happens to me every few years (though hasn't happened yet with the chip card). I think three or four times in the past 10 years. The banks are very fast to catch it, and it's just an inconvenience...
Marion Barry (former mayor of Washington, DC) is a Democrat, and he got just as much publicity and grief from the local media for smoking crack as Rob Ford is getting now. It's not a partisan issue.
My brother is 63 and writes plug-ins for computer animation software; one of the great things about selling things on the internet is that nobody knows how old you are. He's well known in the...
I totally agree, which is why I objected to the phrase "paid off." I used to make my living negotiating grants and contracts to ensure full academic freedom to publish results, regardless of the...
I wouldn't say anyone has been "paid off" by big oil, only that they have received grant money from fossil fuel interests to support their research. That's not the same thing as being "paid off."...
Cool, I'll put it on my list! It does sound interesting. I was reading some statistics on class mobility recently that suggest "social standing" is more generally inherited than acquired: according...
I assume this is an "all other things being equal" comparison, such as habits like smoking or substance abuse? My parents enjoyed high social standing (my father earned the equivalent about about...
The reality is that most of the skeptical scientists who are funded by the fossil fuel industry made names for themselves as skeptics first, and then received funding from fossil fuel interests in...
I believe he did very early on in his term; I seem to remember reading that he forbade his staff to talk to Star reporters and he said he would never grant interviews or quotes to them; they might...
Big man, broad topic. ;-)
Not only that, but contrary to the hysterics you usually hear, you can reduce greenhouse gases at a profit. For example, DuPont reports net savings of more than $90 million/year by reducing its...
I never took him seriously; I read a little about his Gaia hypothesis and read some of the rebuttals; the rebuttals seemed a lot more convincing than the theory.
Like I said, over geological time scales, solar cycles are the main driver of climate. The next ice age can be predicted with good confidence: it'll start around 30,000 years from now. See...
Most scientists don't take Lovelock seriously; I haven't paid much attention to him. And he's far from the "godfather of global warming." The theory of global warming was first proposed in the 1890s...
I've met Al Gore and I've been to a number of his lectures, saw the movie, read the books. I agree that he exaggerates the level of certainty, but in everything I've seen he makes it clear that...