Must Read
- Josh Marshall, “Homeland” And Other Un-American Words and Ideas
- Robert Pollin, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, James Heintz, and Bracken Hendricks, Green Growth [Ed.: Thanks to Brad DeLong for noting this on his blog.]
- Emily Atkin, Watch Obama’s Top Science Advisor Repeatedly Shut Down Climate Deniers At House Climate Hearing
Should Read
- Brad DeLong, Reformicons Agonistes [Ed.: Read the comments as well as the main post]
- Adam Vaccaro, So Long to Paul Guzzi, Who Helped Kill Noncompete Reform [Ed.: More on non-compete agreements in MA here]
- Nature News & Comment, China goes back to basics on research funding
- American Institute of Physics, Administration request for FY 2015 science budgets
Environment and Climate Change
- Ari Phillips, The Dangerous Hole In The Ozone Layer Is Healing, And It’s Because Of A Global Agreement
- Bill Chameides, U.S. Acid Rain Regulations: Did They Work? [Ed.: Spoiler alert! They did!]
- RealClimate, The most common fallacy in discussing extreme weather events
- Joe Romm, This Changes Everything: Naomi Klein Is Right, Unchecked Capitalism Will Destroy Civilization
- Joshua Holland, Naomi Klein: Pitting Environment Against Economy Risks Failure of Both
- Mark Bittman, Let’s Reject the ‘Inevitable’
- Paul Krugman, Could Fighting Global Warming Be Cheap and Free?
Science and Data Analysis
- Brendan Nyhan, To Get More Out of Science, Show the Rejected Research
- Andrew Gelman, What do you do to visualize uncertainty?
- Andrew Gelman, Six quotes from Kaiser Fung
- OPLI.net, [Univ. of California at Irvine] team is first to capture motion of single molecule in real time
Miscellany