GM CEO Rick Wagoner “referring to GM, Ford Motor and Chrysler,” in the FT (Simon+Guerrera, “GM Chief Defends Reliance on SUVs,” 6 June ’08; liberated version here).
Is it the US manufacturers who are stupid? I don’t think so. You have to recognise that the consumer makes the call here … and we are reacting.
So how [...]
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the WP’s Dan Froomkin wrote (“Who’s in Charge? Karl Rove!”, 15 Sep ’05):
Rove’s leadership role suggests quite strikingly that any and all White House decisions and pronouncements regarding the recovery from the storm are being made with their political consequences as the primary consideration. More specifically: With an eye [...]
McClatchy’s (Raleigh–Durham) News and Observer (Vollmer, “German Authorities Look into Allegation That RTP [Research Triangle Park] Maker’s Pesticide Harms Environment,” 26 Aug ’08) reports that
[a] German prosecutor is investigating Werner Wenning, Bayer’s chairman, and Friedrich Berschauer, the head of Bayer CropScience, after critics alleged that they knowingly polluted the environment. The investigation was triggered [...]
Short history of the recent military/intelligence uses of balloons, starting with the Imperial Japanese Army’s incipient use of the jet stream to deliver fusen bakudan (”balloon bombs”) to the US.
Project MOGUL was first conceived by Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University, NY, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA. Dr. Ewing had conducted considerable research for [...]
He starts talking at 0:18.
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Mike Davis:
The London Society is the world’s oldest association of Earth scientists, founded in 1807, and its Commission acts as a college of cardinals in the adjudication of the geological time-scale. Stratigraphers slice up Earth’s history as preserved in sedimentary strata into hierarchies of eons, eras, periods, and epochs marked by the “golden spikes” of [...]
“For now, enjoy the first world map with constant-scale natural boundary”:
Chuck Clark writes:
The art historian Erwin Panofsky, in his book Albrecht Durer, called this “prototopology,” which means merely that the map, when properly folded, resembles the object.
(Strange Maps)
Scott Paul at the Washington Note:
On the very worst day, I couldn’t see clearly from one side of Tienanmen Square to the other. That was a Friday, which is important because, according to locals, that is the day of the week on which the clouds are seeded to clear out the pollution. I was told [...]
…and baiji got cut in the first round.” — Robert L. Pitman
(NYT|NYT)