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Geotimes
April 2006
Megan Sever |
Pakistan's Wetter Weather Linked to Global Warming New data from millennium-long tree-ring analyses are indicating that mountains in northern Pakistan have grown significantly wetter over the past century than they have been over the last millennium -- quite possibly due to human-induced global warming, the researchers say.   |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Pecht & Tiku |
Bogus! Electronic manufacturing and consumers confront a rising tide of counterfeit electronics. Feeding this problem is the shift of manufacturing to China, the growing sophistication of technology, and the rise of the Internet as a marketplace. |
Reason
May 2006
Cathy Young |
The Great Fellatio Scare Is oral sex really the latest teen craze in America? |
Reason
May 2006
Tim Cavanaugh |
Rant: Cartoons Make Cowards of Us All That American media were censoring themselves by not publishing a series of drawings of the prophet Muhammad for fear of enraging Muslims may be unflattering to admit, but it's a crucial element -- perhaps the most important element -- in this story. |
Reason
May 2006
Greg Beato |
Sin Cities on a Hill How legalized gambling in America moved from the Strip to Main Street. |
Reason
May 2006
Jacob Sullum |
Blow for Injustice Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town, by Nate Blakeslee. This book points out that the scandal of Tulia is the scandal of the war on drugs. |
Reason
May 2006
Damon W. Root |
When Bigots Become Reformers Book Review: The Progressive Era and Race: Reform and Reaction, 1900-1917, by David W. Southern deserves careful attention. The Progressive movement unleashed, aided, and abetted some of the most destructive forces in America. |
Reason
May 2006
Tim Cavanaugh |
Artifact: Everything Is Not Illuminated Islamic works of art showing the Prophet Muhammad's face appeared at zombietime.com soon after a set of cartoons in a Danish newspaper prompted Muslims around the world to riot. The collection raised questions about how serious the prohibition against depicting Muhammad is. |
Smithsonian
May 2006
Stephen Glain |
A Tale of Two Chinas As the red-hot Chinese economy feeds the world's appetite for consumer goods, the one-time workers' republic is more than ever a nation of haves and have-nots. |
Wired
May 2006
Daniel H. Pink |
Rise of The Neo-Greens Solar panels on the roof. Hybrid car in the garage. Organic-cotton clothes in the closet. Today's eco-radicals are voting with their dollars. |
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