Yostivanich

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“More than one-third of all global energy is con­sumed by, or in, build­ings, which in turn account for about 15 per­cent of global green­house gas emis­sions, accord­ing to the Clin­ton Cli­mate Ini­tia­tive, a pro­gram ini­ti­ated in 2006 by for­mer Pres­i­dent Bill Clinton’s foun­da­tion. In mod­ern cities, with their high den­si­ties of multi­u­nit res­i­den­tial and office struc­tures, inef­fi­cient build­ings can account for as much as 80 per­cent of the car­bon diox­ide emissions.”

And some more.

Stuff sci­ence has yet to fully understand.

“At the same time, the effects of reli­gious atten­dance on gen­er­ous behav­iors are not lim­ited to the reli­giously affil­i­ated. Even for the reli­giously unaf­fil­i­ated, reli­gious atten­dance is asso­ci­ated with a higher like­li­hood of respon­dents say­ing that they have donated money, vol­un­teered, and helped a stranger. In par­tic­u­lar, vol­un­teer­ing increased from 19% to 29% among sec­u­lar respon­dents, while donat­ing goes from 28% to 36%. While these activ­i­ties may be asso­ci­ated with the addi­tional oppor­tu­ni­ties that reli­gious orga­ni­za­tions pro­vide for donat­ing money and time, the same rela­tion­ship exists for help­ing strangers. Although help­ing strangers is not always a behav­ior that reli­gious orga­ni­za­tions directly facil­i­tate, 44% of sec­u­lar respon­dents who attended such ser­vices engage in such activ­i­ties, but only 40% of non-attenders said the same.”

“There’s the rub. To cash your pay­check with­out pay­ing a fee, you need a bank account, and for working-class peo­ple, a bank account costs a great deal more than $150 a year. Last year, U.S. banks col­lected about $36 bil­lion in over­draft pro­tec­tion fees. This year, they expect to trans­fer about $38.5 bil­lion out of cus­tomers’ accounts in the form of such fees.” The work­ing poor have so many prob­lems it’s no won­der that Repub­li­cans have no under­stand­ing when they say just get a job.

“China unex­pect­edly increased pres­sure Sun­day on the United States in a widen­ing trade dis­pute, tak­ing the first steps toward impos­ing tar­iffs on Amer­i­can exports of auto­mo­tive prod­ucts and chicken meat in retal­i­a­tion for Pres­i­dent Obama’s deci­sion late Fri­day to levy tar­iffs on tires from China. The impact of the dis­pute extends well beyond tires, chick­ens and cars. Both gov­ern­ments are fac­ing domes­tic pres­sure to take a tougher stand against the other on eco­nomic issues. But the trade bat­tle increases polit­i­cal ten­sions between the two nations even as they try to work together to revive the global econ­omy and com­bat mutual secu­rity threats, like the nuclear ambi­tions of Iran and North Korea.”

“Obama and his judge-pickers define their choices with the same post-partisan vocab­u­lary that the Pres­i­dent uses with most issues: excel­lence, com­pe­tence, com­mon sense. And so far Repub­li­cans have regarded Obama’s claims in this realm with the same skep­ti­cism that they have dis­played for his argu­ments on the econ­omy and health care. Still, this is not just a replay of the usual ide­o­log­i­cal debate. Obama’s choice of judges reflects fer­ment in the world of legal lib­er­al­ism, which is tied ever more closely to the fate of Democ­rats in the exec­u­tive and leg­isla­tive branches of gov­ern­ment. Lib­er­als who once saw judges as the lone pro­tec­tors of con­sti­tu­tional rights are now plac­ing their hopes on elected politi­cians like Obama. At its core, Obama’s jurispru­dence may rest less on any legal the­ory or nomen­cla­ture than on a more pri­mal polit­i­cal skill—the abil­ity to keep win­ning elections.”

“Accord­ing to the research, peo­ple whose smiles were weak­est in snap­shots from child­hood through young adult­hood were most likely to report being divorced in mid­dle and old age. Among the weak­est smil­ers in col­lege pho­tographs, one in four ended up divorc­ing, com­pared with one in 20 of the widest smil­ers. The same pat­tern held among even those pic­tured at an aver­age age of 10.”

“Browser­scope is a community-driven project for pro­fil­ing web browsers. The goals are to fos­ter inno­va­tion by track­ing browser func­tion­al­ity and to be a resource for web devel­op­ers.” Go and try out your browser.

“So Apple gets a unique advan­tage in the video cam­era mar­ket not because it makes a bet­ter cam­era, but because it can con­nect its cam­era more eas­ily to a pro­pri­etary music ecosys­tem. In other words, iTunes is no longer just a tool for Apple to defend its iPod sales; it’s now a tool to help Apple take over new mar­kets. I was heav­ily involved in the Apple-Microsoft law­suits when I worked at Apple in the 1990s, so I know how pas­sion­ately we believed that Microsoft’s tac­tics were not just uneth­i­cal, but also harm­ful to com­puter users and the over­all econ­omy. So it’s very dis­ap­point­ing to see Apple using tac­tics it once bit­terly denounced, and declar­ing that it’s decided to take over a mar­ket because “we want to get in.” If Apple can use iTunes as a weapon against Pure Dig­i­tal and Palm, what’s to stop it from rolling up every new cat­e­gory of mobile enter­tain­ment prod­uct? Where’s the incen­tive for other com­pa­nies to invest?”

“Still, the House lead­er­ship has decided to take this inci­dent to the floor, and many top Repub­li­can lead­ers have termed Mr. Wilson’s behav­ior “inap­pro­pri­ate” or worse. While Speaker Nancy Pelosi ini­tially said she believed peo­ple should move on, Major­ity Leader Steny Hoyer, Demo­c­rat of Mary­land as well as Rep­re­sen­ta­tive James Clyburn, the Demo­c­ra­tic major­ity whip from South Car­olina, were among those who rather pub­licly and force­fully pushed for offi­cial action to be taken against Mr. Wilson.”

“Here’s a front page story the New York Times (NYT) would rather not be run­ning: The paper is warn­ing read­ers to be aware of bogus ads run­ning on its Web site.” I saw this a few times yes­ter­day, not a good thing for the New York Times.