Nathan Lustig

Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist and owner of CO2stats.com, claims that every two Google searches uses as much energy as boiling a kettle of water.   I have no idea if this is correct, but it seems very high to me. Experts have also claimed that the Internet industry produces about as much carbon emissions as the [...]

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No, its not science fiction. I just finished reading the Economist’s special report on the world’s oceans.  Its really good, worth the read, and best of all, its free on the Economist website. One of the articles describes an area in the Pacific ocean 2x the size of the United States that is completely full [...]

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Citizens for Responsible Government, a citizens’ action group based in Milwaukee, recently generated a searchable database for all of the expenses from the Milwaukee Public Schools.  It allows anyone with internet access to easily see how our tax dollars are being spent. I would love to see a similar searchable database for all hospitals and [...]

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Shana Madoff, the niece of Bernie Madoff, the now infamous hedge fund fraudster, has deleted her Facebook profile to try to get out of the public eye.  Will this be a trend that others continue when they run afoul of the law, or is this a special case? Imagine the political fallout of the discovery [...]

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