Social Issues

Magazine articles on social issues such as crime, the environment, abortion, wealth distribution, drugs, etc.

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Scientific American January 2009 Linda Baker	Removing Roads and Traffic Lights Speeds Urban Travel Urban travel is slow and inefficient, in part because drivers act in self-interested ways
Fast Company February 2009 Jeff Hull	Water Desalination: The Answer to the World's Thirst? As supplies of fresh water evaporate, the world turns to the sea.
Fast Company February 2009 Melanie Warner	Can Wind Power a Rural Renaissance? In some small towns, wind power is spawning new jobs, middle-class affluence, and carbon-free energy independence.
The Motley Fool January 16, 2009 Tim Beyers	100 Million More Reasons to Love Cleantech Stanford University, the school that helped give birth to Yahoo! and Sun Microsystems, among others, is putting $100 million into a new energy institute for cleantech research.
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Does the State Dept. Ignore Security? UPDATED: Reports suggest an ongoing pattern of unauthorized access to citizens' personal information.
Chemistry World January 15, 2009 Ned Stafford	Synthetic cannabis mimic found in herbal incense A chemical substance first synthesized in 1995 in a university lab in the US is now being used by young people around the world to legally achieve a marijuana-like high and is causing alarm among health officials in Europe.
InternetNews January 13, 2009 Andy Patrizio	Researcher Says Google Carbon Story is Wrong Harvard researcher publishes work on the carbon footprint of the Web, but his work becomes a political football.
Popular Mechanics January 13, 2009 Joe P. Hasler	What's the Future of Recycling After the Market's Precipitous Plunge? When the global economy began its death spiral in September, it took the recycling industry down with it.
Popular Mechanics January 13, 2009 Davin Coburn	The Next Biofuel Frontier: Jet Engines In a test last Wednesday in Houston, Continental became the first U.S. airline to test synthetic paraffinic kerosenes -- otherwise known as jet biofuels.
Reason January 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Digital Spelunking A new study from the National Research Council suggests that data mining-high-tech sifting through the digital leavings of our lives-won't catch the next Osama bin Laden.
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