…he calls a cabinet meeting for all ministers at the Kremlin in half an hour. Gorbachev goes out and calls to his driver, gets into his limousine, and says, “Take…
…logistic growth, a second period of logistic growth with a different carrying capacity can superimpose on the first growth pulse. For example, cars first replaced the population of horses but…
…paid for research campaigns, even a war on cancer. These payments to spend more time on research encouraged professors to cut their hours of contact with students from, say, nine…
…people times GDP/people times fuel/GDP times carbon/fuel . . . or carbon = carbon, an identity. Consider the world carbon emission performance for 1950-1990 and for 1991-1999 divided into the…
…sweep of time sufficient for long-term effects to become apparent. Efforts at developing multiuser online simulation games (e.g., the Internet-based “President ‘96” and “Reinventing America,” developed by Crossover Technologies under…
…the causes include lead, cadmium, and other elemental exposures. In any case, a massive increase has occurred in the United States of diagnoses of Attention Deficit–Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The drug…
…recycled uranium can fill likely nuclear demand. A scenario of high demand invokes worries about uranium supplies and thus the recycling, which so-called breeder reactors can perform. While we are…
A splendid book emerging from the Census of Marine Life has just been published, The Biology of Squat Lobsters, GCB Poore, ST Ahyong, and J Taylor (eds.), CRC, Boca Raton,…
…hours. Projecting electricity demand matters because it influences investments in capacity. Accurate projections might have lessened the pain for the utilities, which ordered and then canceled plants; the equipment suppliers,…
…cancer-causing chemicals. Accompanying this shift was the popularizing of “risk assessment” as a tool to inform decision-making in environmental policy. According to former EPA administrator William Ruckelshaus, risk assessment is…