May 11, 2008
Blog Entries by Carla Wise
How Oil Finds its Way Into Your Starbucks Latte, and Other Good News
Oil prices recently hit 100 dollars a barrel, and the days of cheap oil appear to be over. Meanwhile, Starbucks is struggling with plummeting stock prices and falling profits. These facts are intimately connected, illustrating the dangers and opportunities ahead. Our food system, which provides us with massive amounts of...
Half Nelson
Posted June 25, 2007 | 02:28 PM (EST)
Normally, I stay away from movies about crack addicts. But Half Nelson is a great movie. If you haven't seen it, you should. It's about a brilliant junior high school history teacher with an unbeatable crack addiction. Daniel Dunne, the addict, splits his time between inspiring his inner-city students with...
Teeter Totters and Tipping Points
Posted February 21, 2007 | 05:22 PM (EST)
All the teeter-totters are gone. They have been pulled from playgrounds across the country, and replaced with damped down versions that are restrained by large springs and bounce gently, never hitting the ground. Most of today's children don't know the great rush of going over the tipping point and swinging...
Gutsy Science Wins the Day
Posted February 12, 2007 | 06:42 PM (EST)
For any scientist, publishing in Science magazine marks a giant success. It's one of the world's premier scientific journals, and only about 7 percent of submitted manuscripts are accepted. But Dan Donato, a second-year graduate student at Oregon State University's College of Forestry, overcame the odds.
Donato was lead author...
On a day when it appears that the Michigan controversy may be resolved in a way...
With the Democratic nomination now in its endgame, it's time to speculate on...
On Friday, Barack Obama publicly raised the possibility of helping Hillary Clinton pay...
From "CBS News RAW": While campaigning in Fayetteville, W.Va., Bill Clinton argued with...
Actress and Calvin Klein spokeswoman Eva Mendes posed for a provocative photospread in the...
Today, May 10, marks the first day of what the Obama campaign is calling its "Vote For...
Last night's all new "Saturday Night Live"
CBS caught Senator Obama on Capitol Hill in a swarm of...
As the Democratic primary nears its long-awaited conclusion, undecided superdelegates have...
As a lawyer might say (OK, I am one), I have no personal knowledge of whether John or...
At the same time that former West Wingers...
Billionaire California bond manager Bill Gross calls it "a haute con job." Bloomberg...
Posted January 17, 2008 | 04:55 PM (EST)