Wednesday, June 9, 2010

News Roundup

Increase Kitchen Efficiency by Learning Basic Knife Handling Skills

Minimum Payments: A Monster That Will Eat You Alive

Life inside the North Korean bubble

Top 10 Design Myths

10 Ways to Prevent a Home-Plumbing Nightmare

Food Fight

Wheat rust: 'cereal killer' in Kenya

15 Unusual Uses For Baking Soda

Off-grid Laundry machine

FTC floats Drudge tax

How to Be a Hegemon

The Dr. Zhivago Option

2010 Grasshopper Forecast

Obama loses the Left: suddenly, it's cool to bash Barack

Nancy Pelosi, the liberal House speaker, is heckled by liberals

Disturbing Job Ads: 'The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered'

Aging Baby Boomers and the Generational Housing Bubble: Foresight and Mitigation of an Epic Transition


How to Preserve Food for Future Consumption Using Three Simple Old Fashioned Methods

Vanishing Farmland: How It's Destabilizing America's Food Supply

Phoenix-area hospitals fight highly toxic 'supergerm'

As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather

Severe weather rakes Midwest; 7 dead

Watching California Wind Power Output

Time can't erase D-Day memories

More rain in Boise. When will it stop? When will the sun return? Where is summer?

BEST HOUSEPLANTS TO IMPROVE INDOOR AIR QUALITY

KEEPING KITCHEN STAPLES FRESH

Double-Decker Drum Composter

Salt

Preparing Your Information for Disaster, Part Two

From the oil spill to the financial crisis, why we don't plan for the worst

I'm Tired--some updates

U.S.’s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP: Chart of Day

The Finger of God

Declutter Your Home and Simplify by Choosing Classic Designs

A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man 'Academy' on YouTube

A diet of the mind

Time Machine plus a clone secure the day

A “Systems” Explanation of How Bailouts can Cause Business Cycles

ZYWICKI: Why aren't banks lending?

A Future With Fewer New Miracle Drugs

A Classical Education: Back to the Future

The Overton Window