The joys of market based, deregulated electricity…

Overnight Thompson’s price per kilowatt-hour went from 11.8 cents with the now-defunct retailer National Power to 31.7 cents with CPL Retail Energy. During the 19 days last month he had

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Call me contrarian, but this I believe…

Ever since Sept. 11, I have been of a contrarian. I never felt that the date had changed anything other than our own misguided perception of our own safety. A

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Anxious in America – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Yesterday there was an op-ed in the Times that said a lot of what I have been feeling here lately…and said it well…Go read

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The Rural Life – Summer’s Night

The Rural Life – Editorial – Summer’s Night – Editorial – NYTimes.com The last couple of nights I’ve stood at the edge of the pasture watching the fireflies. They rise

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Happy Birthday To US, America!

Enjoy the day…But remember the reason we celebrate. George F. Will – Independence Days – washingtonpost.com Certain politically charged rhetorical tropes were then society’s common property. Writing shortly before his

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Independence Day…From Oil and Coal.

Wouldn’t it make a great birthday present to the country if we could get serious about Energy Independence? Yale Environment 360: As Energy Prices Rise, the Pressure to Drill Builds

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African fractals, in buildings and braids

TED | Talks | Ron Eglash: African fractals, in buildings and braids (video) “I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof.” That is how Ron

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