Shouldn't the Freedom From Religion Foundation sue the Madison school district for the extensive celebration of a religious holiday?

From the Madison Metropolitan School District website: Kwanzaa celebrated at two schools Students and staff at Falk and Lowell Elementary Sc...

"Cash for Clunkers" environmental cost/benefit balance seems to have been negative.

"According to the Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA), almost 100% of a vehicle can be recycled." Even the fluids can be reused...

Why didn't EPA adminstrator Lisa P. Jackson fulfill "high hopes of sweeping action to address climate change"?

Maybe you can find clues in the NYT article about her departure. I note: After his re-election, and a campaign in which global warming was ...

"ZeroHouse can be located almost anywhere."

"Two flatbed trucks carry all the zeroHouse components to the site, and it can be erected in less than a day." Meade says: "W...

Sperm decline...

... in France. Prof Richard Sharpe, from the University of Edinburgh, said: "Something in our modern lifestyle, diet or environment lik...

How many weasels does it take to make a quorum?

And "where do city politicians fleebag when they want to hold up legislative decision-making by preventing quorum? Fitchburg?" Pr...

Recycling your turkey-frying oil in Madison, Wisconsin for the greater good of America and the world.

A City of Madison news release: "We know that there are many people who have lots of oil left over after frying their Thanksgiving turk...

There are no more young naturalists, "because it's no longer allowed, no longer legal, to be a collector."

Said Sir David Attenborough. "I openly admit that I collected birds' eggs. And I knew, I bet like you did, when the right moment wa...

Restoring Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite's twin.

San Francisco will be voting whether to drain the reservoir , revealing whatever's been under 90 meters of water for a century. In his 1...

"Wind farms have been 'peppered' across Britain without enough consideration for the countryside and people’s homes..."

"... a senior Conservative energy minister admitted last night as he warned 'enough is enough.'" John Hayes said that we c...

"Their ideas point to the way that agriculture has to be in the future."

"There’s wide consensus that we have to figure out this fusion of ‘organic’ and 'industrial.' They’ve illustrated what that fus...

"These are our mountains... I look at what we have, and I think, why ruin it over an oil rig?"

The NYT quotes Cheryl Little Dog — "a recently elected member of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council, the reservation’s governing bo...

"Carbon Credits Gone Awry Raise Output of Harmful Gas."

Manufacturers "quickly figured out that they could earn one carbon credit by eliminating one ton of carbon dioxide, but could earn more...

"[T]he only thing preventing these giant swamp rats from destroying all of Louisiana are our very own Rat B*stards and their crafty hunting tricks...."

It's the new reality show — "Rat Bastards" — with "larger-than-life characters in extreme situations, facing down these ...

Gallery-goers eat rats at the art show "Tomorrow We Will Feast Again on What We Catch."

And the NYT gives the show 2-pages of glowing description (and warnings that — ooh! — you may be disgusted). Twenty people, mostly friends...

"What is the fair market value of an object that cannot be sold?"

"The object under discussion is 'Canyon,' a masterwork of 20th-century art created by Robert Rauschenberg that Mrs. Sonnabend’s...

Overweight human beings are the equivalent of an extra 242 million people on earth.

According to a new study (via Reason.com ). Although the largest increase in population numbers is expected in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa,...

"When people think about environmental sustainability, they immediately focus on population."

"Actually, when it comes down to it — it's not how many mouths there are to feed, it's how much flesh there is on the planet....

"If only [racial] change were as swift and simple as a child’s dance recital."

Here 's a second article about race giving central, front-page attention on the NYT website this morning. (The previous post discusses ...

"Does gender equality produce income inequality?"

Asks Instapundit linking to this article about the way women pair up with men from the same socioeconomic class. Doctors used to marry nur...