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Solar Showdown: Are New Solar Power Projects Anti-Environmental?
Last December, I flew to Phoenix, rented a car and drove two hours west on Interstate 10 to Blythe, Calif., a sun-baked town of 13,000 on the lower Colorado River surrounded by orange groves and...
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Rooftop Solar Power to the People?
While chasing the mirage of a game-changing renewable energy source in the form of industrial-scale solar plants capable of powering hundreds of thousands of homes, the federal government has turned...
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Will Hispanics Take Over American Politics?
The rapid growth in the U.S. Hispanic population over the last 40 years — both in terms of raw numbers and percentage of the population — is probably the most important emergent force in American...
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‘State of Minds’ Puts Research in the Spotlight
One of the pleasant aspects of being the editor of Miller-McCune is regular and often unexpected contact with people and entities that are working to improve the world by introducing some small piece...
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Lee Baca Wants to Educate L.A.’s Prisoners
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca wants to teach criminals a lesson — literally. The top cop of America’s most populous county is launching a new initiative aimed at offering education to every one...
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Mentally Ill Homeless Improve With Group Living
In 1990, a research team in Boston launched an ambitious experiment with some of the city’s sickest residents — the chronically homeless and severely mentally ill. With $13 million in federal funding,...
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Save the Poor by Selling Them Stuff — Cheap
The first slide comes up on the white-walled lecture room’s double display screens. In capital letters, it declares: “EMPATHY.” The 40-odd Stanford students gathered in a semicircle of plastic chairs...
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ARCHIVE Says Home Is Where the Health Is
Growing up in Kingston, Jamaica, Peter Williams took for granted the holes in the wood floors of his house — and the rats that crawled through them. But when his father contracted a bacterial infection...
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Can Biosecurity Go Global?
A tall, modest academic with graying temples, Ren Salerno was happily toiling away in obscurity at a small biological threat research program at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M.,...
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Save the Birds — With Doppler Radar
After slogging through knee-deep water, past palmetto thickets and trumpet vines dangling from the treetops, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Mike Lange stops short. He signals toward a gnarled...
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New Dinosaur Gets a Rather Large Name
A new dinosaur discovered in Utah has been named Brontomerus mcintoshi. Now, we have no quarrel at all with the species name, mcintoshi, because it was chosen in honor of John “Jack” McIntosh, who is...
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Start Slow With Bullet Trains
The prospect of building new rail corridors in the U.S. must seem expensive and daunting, as it did to Europeans 20 or 30 years ago. Old American track, in many cases, is too rickety or crowded for...
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Did the Stimulus Quench America’s Economic Thirst?
For the next financial crisis, what would be the best way to spend stimulus dollars? While some economists suggest a national fire sale and some pharmacists heaping helpings of hormones, an examination...
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Welcome to Shelbyville: Loving, Fearing Thy Neighbors
In news headlines and broadcast bulletins, the word “Somali” is inevitably followed by a dread-inducing plural noun: “pirates” or “warlords” or “terrorists.” So it’s no surprise that natives of the...
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Fatherhood Scholars Know Best
The post-World War II era was the age of Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best, when a benign patriarch’s authority over his household was complete and unquestioned. Or was it? Writing in the...
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