I don’t remember how I first came across it, but a post by Rajesh Setty from January 2006, his “New Year Resolutions Generator,” inspired me to start thinking about New Years resolutions a few weeks early this year. I know it’s already the 2nd of January (sorry, I meant to have this up earlier), but if you don’t have any [...]

The graph above has become increasingly noteworthy recently. It is the product of a years-old study by climate scientist Michael E. Mann, which shows a sharp rise in greenhouse gases in the last century, known as the “hockey stick curve.” The discussion of global warming in the media is growing at an exponential rate. Viewers of the film An Inconvenient [...]