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Submitted by Matt Beck on Thu, 10/07/2010 - 10:11
Some of Nate Silver's articles should be required reading, and this is one of them:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/understanding-and-mi...
I like the premise of this article. To people comparing America to Rome, I usually say "Rome had a 1000 year run. We're doing just fine."
http://www.tnr.com/blog/foreign-policy/78216/america-in-decline-thomas-f...
Global warming deniers have hijacked a respected scientists reputation.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43233.html
I'm seriously glad this has been figured out. A mystery plague on honey bees just seems too Biblical and counter-natural. It messed with my sense of order in the world a little bit.
