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Month: June 2013

  • Another wildlife photo

    This is the robins' nest right outside our back door. This is the second batch (?) of babies of the nesting season. I think we might be able to enjoy one more batch (?): Photo Credit: John Whitehead

  • An AERE bear

    Near Lake Louise ski area around the time of the AERE Summer Conference: Photo Credit: Lynne Lewis

  • Newest AERE Fellows

    News from the AERE Summer Conference: Larry Goulder John Loomis Robert Pindyck Congratulations! Here is the AERE Fellows webpage.

  • Classic

    I took some time off and visited family in Kentucky last week. It was raining when we were packing up on Sunday so I moved the car into the garage to tie everything up on top. The angle isn't the best, but do you notice anything odd about this picture? Right on, we couldn't get…

  • Knock Knock. Who’s there? To. To who. To WHOM!

    Reading the Green pages at Yahoo! news, I just found this funny:

  • The “support a carbon tax” letter writing campaign begins today!

    Since, of course, your senator cares what you think: A Senate panel will begin consideration of a carbon tax bill as part of a broader hearing on climate change in mid-July. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) told reporters in the Capitol on Thursday that Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) climate bill…

  • Benefits and costs of steroids in baseball

    Apply the economic theory of crime: The problem with policing steroids is that the crime pays too handsomely and the conviction amounts to a carrying charge. Suspending a big-league ballplayer for 50 or even 100 games for using performance-enhancing drugs is like sticking a parking ticket on Al Capone’s getaway car. It is more of…

  • I’m waiting for the Orioles to call

    For those who don't know, my hobby is coaching softball and baseball.  Unfortunately, last year, my daughter's softball abilities finally outgrew my coaching abilities and I had to turn her over to a 'real' team.  Now I coach my 11 year old's travel baseball team (Crush Baseball Club).  This past weekend they were one of…

  • Just when I start to forgive* Exxon for the whole Valdez thing, they have to go and do something like this

    Attorneys for Exxon Mobil Corp. and Exxon Pipeline Co. have filed a motion asking for dismissal of a lawsuit by Mayflower residents over a recent oil spill. ExxonMobil Pipeline's Pegasus pipeline ruptured March 29 and spilled thousands of barrels of oil in the town about 25 miles northwest of Little Rock and forced the evacuation…

  • A microwave is going to cost you more

    Brad Plumer at Wonkblog: Last week, the Department of Energy announced a little-noticed update to its energy-efficiency standards for microwaves, requiring newer models to use less power in stand-by mode. But there was a surprise buried in the fine print: The agency is now using a higher figure for the “social cost of carbon” in calculating…