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Scott Brown and Bill Nelson, a bipartisan pair of Senators introduced a bill at the beginning of this month that would direct the IRS to issue itemized receipts to taxpayers showing them where their taxes are spent and in what amounts. The bill would also create a website where curious/enraged taxpayers could dig into even deeper detail about exactly where twenty-something percent of their money is going.
How invasive species work – their spread can be spectacular
by Marshall Brain | March 28, 2011
If you were to go back and look at the United States 1,000 years ago, the number and types of animal and plant species you would find would be quite different than they are today. The change started with the arrival of Europeans to the North American continent. Some of the species they brought with [...]
A beautiful screen, a weak battery, a door to the future: Ars reviews the Nintendo 3DS – “I want to be shown something new when I play a fresh gaming system, something that wouldn’t be possible on the hardware I already have in my home. The first time I was able to go hands-on with [...]
John P. Wheeler III: The Mitre Corporation
by Ben Bowlin | March 25, 2011
In an earlier post we looked at the mysterious death of John P. Wheeler III, a Vietnam veteran and seasoned Washington insider. Wheeler’s sudden demise shocked his friends and family, and many of the events leading to the discovery of his body remain unexplained. Due to the nature of Wheeler’s homicide, his profound experience (as [...]
This week on Stuff Mom Never Told You, Molly and I discussed whether it costs more to be a man or a woman. But here’s something we didn’t factor into the equation: sexuality. Today, I ran across a 2009 article from the New York Times breaking down the higher lifetime costs associated with being in [...]
CNN Oddly Celebrates Hero Libyan Suicide Bomber
by Josh Clark | March 25, 2011
So I like to think it’s pretty tough to disgust me. But a piece last night on the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer on CNN managed to come pretty close. The piece in question, which has been thoroughly buried, meaning I can’t dig it up, was a human interest segment on a suicide bomber in Libya. The weird thing, it was done in the same way Western media approaches stories on American troops who jump on grenades to save the rest of their platoon or a the normal guy who loses his life rescuing a kid from a burning building. Except, as I’ve said, this was a suicide bomber.
Sometimes, after we have looked at something in a certain way for a really long time, we cannot see it any other way. Then someone with the stuff of genius comes along and reconceptualizes it and we say, “why didn’t I think of that!” Such is the case with the conventional four-stroke internal combustion engine. [...]
This video presents three ideas for camouflaging and hiding yourself in urban settings. I think the second one is the best of the three: Some other ideas: But this appears to be one of the best hiding jobs around: Man hides in ceiling, robs Raleigh bar Surveillance video shows that hours before the robbery, a [...]
Let’s say there’s a famous person you admire. Let’s say, purely for the sake of example, that it’s Levar Burton. Also, let’s say for the sake of example that you’re Troy Barnes and this is an episode of “Community.”
There are two well-known biofuels that are widely available today: ethanol and biodiesel. Ethanol comes (in most cases today) from the fermentation of corn, using approximately the same process that has been used for centuries to make beer and then whiskey. Biodiesel comes from soybean oil or corn oil using a fairly simple process. A [...]
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