Warmest Summer Ocean Ever Recorded
Pop quiz: How do these two things fit together? Thing 1: Pro-industry public relations efforts claim that the earth is cooling, not warming. Thing 2: The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric...
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Heat Spill Brings Early Pods
This morning, after a few days away, I woke up to my garden to discover that the plants of late June have become the plants of late May. Here, within an hour’s drive of our nation’s northern border,...
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Better than a Fair to keep you Fair: Longacre Farms Maize Maze
I love going to county fairs in the summertime to animalwatch, to peoplewatch, to test my stomach’s fortitude on rides and to test my stomach’s fortitude at the booths. Fairs are loads of fun, but it’s...
View ArticleAcross the Earth, 2010 had the Second Hottest Summer on Record
This week, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science released data on global temperatures for June, July and August 2010, the hot summer months in the Northern Hemisphere, where most people on the...
View ArticleThe 3 Ways Americans Elect Could Improve Politics (and the 3 Ways it Could Go...
The summer is an empty stage. With Congress and the President going on extended vacations, with students away from campus and student activism on hold, there is a vacuum of traditional political news...
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In Summer, Fall
By the calendar, strict dividing lines separate Winter from Spring and Summer from Fall. The natural world knows no hard and fast boundaries. In the middle of August I stepped outside this morning to...
View ArticleLiberation Summer Statement of Purpose
The following is the text of the Statement of Purpose of Liberation Summer, a nascent organization that aims to direct the energies of the Occupy movement to grapple with issues of imprisonment in the...
View Article3 Big Protests Loom for the end of Summer 2012: DNC, RNC, NYC
Some people schedule their summers around expensive megaconcerts. Some people schedule their summers around beach parties. Some people schedule their summers around protest. If you’re in the last...
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Vegetable Gardening 2012 Continues as Vegetable Gardening 2013 Begins
In the automobile industry, the end of a calendar summer is the beginning of the next model year. So it goes with vegetables, but in carbon-neutral fashion. Garden fashion magazines depict the...
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Cleveland Peace Action Hosts March 21 Event: Planning Protest for the...
As the probability of a contested convention increases and the probability of a Donald Trump plurality of delegates nears certainty, many eyes are shifting to the city of Cleveland, Ohio, where the...
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