- Do you remember the big hubbub everyone raised in 2008 when the extremely conservative International Energy Agency predicted that we'd hit peak oil around 2020. Me neither. Three years earlier, the IEA had been denying there was any looming problem that might imperil our petrol dependent world economy.
- Did you know the government isn't systematically monitoring pollution levels in human beings and that most of the thousands of synthetic substances now on the market have never been safety tested, not even the ones that are most rapidly accumulating in our bodies? Ask them to do something about it.
- Someone who was at Goldman Sachs will be charged with theft ... of trade secrets. The FBI has apparently done a bang up job hunting this guy down and prosecuting him for injuring Goldman Sachs' profitability. It's nice to know our priorities are straight.
- Police work and alert residents likely averted a bombing by a Pennsylvania man who was visiting Hudson Falls, NY. No one in Washington, DC, has been able to make heads or tails of the situation, since by their understanding, acts of terrorism can only be averted by sustained bombing campaigns and warrantless house-to-house searches in the middle of the night. There is no word on when the first air strikes will be called in against Westmoreland, PA, where the suspect lived.
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 turns out to still be contentious. That wouldn't surprise Clio Bluestocking, some of whose students seem to be under the impression that the abolitionist movement failed. (Via.) [Update, minor correction.]
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