750,000 Arrested for Marijuana – Though Most Americans Want It Legalized
Here are a few numbers that don’t add up. Just-released stats from the FBI show that about three-quarters…
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Ditch Day Economics: California Schools Paying $35 a Day, Per Kid
In my coworker’s email this morning, from the school principal: Hi parents. My sources have told me that…
Alarming post-Sandy Factoid: The National Flood Insurance Program is Still Broke
If you ever want to have a really strange conversation with a politician, ask about floods. Rising water…
Predicting House Races by Weight of Tweet
With the presidential prediction game dreadfully same-y, surely there’s another constantly changing fix for political junkies. How about…
Sandy Reminds About Frailty of Electric Grid
With eight million customers or so without electrical power today on the United States’ East Coast, it’s worth…
Put Your Fingerprints on This Bay Area Event
If you’ve been reading Sue Russell’s series of stories on wrongful convictions – and you live in the…
Today in Mushy Statistics: The World Prosperity Rankings Are Out
The creepily-named Legatum Institute (“legatum” means this) has released its annual ranking of world prosperity, and the US…
The Hardest Conversation, Part 2
Late-stage cancer patients often don’t understand that chemotherapy isn’t a cure but a palliative, as Kevin Charles Redmon…
The Dead Sea is Shrinking Faster Than Ever
The Dead Sea has been drying up at a frightening pace for many years now – and the…
Hurricane Sandy and the Presidential Election
What an incumbent has to gain—and lose—from a natural disaster