Here’s some links that might be worth investigating:
Crop To Cuisine: Reconnecting with our food through localism.
International Conference
on Peak Oil and Climate Change (started yesterday).
ESPN.com MLB standings: a third of the way through the season, and both the Yankees and the Mets find themselves with 27-27 records, looking up in the standings at a couple of [...]
Before the end of World War Two, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes convinced FDR that in order to guarantee American oil security, a special relationship with Saudi Arabia was needed. Ickes and others recognized that there was not enough oil in the United States to support rapid industrial growth. Rather than try to [...]
Pop quiz:
“Using innuendo and implication to encourage Americans to believe as fact some things that were unclear and possibly false… and other things that were overplayed or completely wrong”
This statement could be referring to
A) The Bush Administration’s use of ‘propaganda’ (according to ex-Press Secretary Scott McClellan) to push for the invasion of Iraq
B) The Clinton [...]
The new Indiana Jones movie just opened. This one, the fourth in the series, revives the franchise with a story set twenty years after the original trilogy.
The Nazis are not around in 1957, so the bad guys this time are communists, specifically from the Soviet Union. Cate Blanchett plays a KGB agent. Some people are [...]
Correction: The weak dollar is not the problem, but it is definitely a problem.
Turkish Weekly explains how the weak dollar affects oil prices. It’s a complicated relationship. What I meant to point out yesterday was this:
Of course, the lower dollar means cheaper oil in Europe, Asia, and all countries with appreciating currencies. Oil prices hit [...]