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Daily Archive for May 28th, 2012

For the “We’re Doomed” Files

Posted in Education, Government Gone Wild on May 28th, 2012

I just noticed this old piece via Marginal Revolution: Aside from its wealth, the single defining feature of über-Washington is its youth. Most of the people who have moved to Washington since 2006 have been under 35; the region has the highest ­percentage of 25-to-34-year-olds in the U.S. “We’re a mecca for young people,” Fuller […]

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Memorial Day for Global Warming

Posted in Environment, You Can't Have it Both Ways on May 28th, 2012

I was having  a casual conversation a week or so ago at a sunny baseball game when someone excitedly mentioned to me that solar power is now competitive with conventional fuel generation prices. Here are the Department of Energy’s predictions for solar costs by 2016 as of December 2010 and here is its most recent […]

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