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Friday, November 20, 2009

Summer and Autumn Duck

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With the exception of my Nobel entry here , it's been a long time since I mentioned my posts at the international relations (IR) group b...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Climate updates: fall edition

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This personal blog has not been updated for a week, but that doesn't mean I have abandoned the blogosphere. These are the most recent...
Friday, November 06, 2009

Senators against (Political) Science

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Yesterday, the United States Senate voted down the so-called "Coburn amendment," which would have eliminated National Science Foun...
Thursday, November 05, 2009

College Athletic Costs: Louisville

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The University if California at Berkeley, like many other universities, is facing a severe budget crisis. With a $150 million shortfall , th...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Arts at the White House

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Check out Lin-Manuel Miranda's take on Alexander Hamilton (an important figure in American foreign policy too): The Obamas were certain...
Monday, November 02, 2009

Top-ranked Kansas

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The pre-season college basketball polls agree that the Kansas Jayhawks are this year's team-to-beat for the national championship. The t...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Coal state environmentalism

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The University of Kentucky just approved construction of the second LEED-certified building on the Lexington campus. LEED means Leadership i...
Friday, October 23, 2009

I need a new agent

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Consider this a very special edition of UofL Today . Lexington Herald-Leader , October 17, 2009: The University of Louisville Foundation pai...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Guns?

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Today, I received the following message in my email. The company name and phone number has been deleted: [Deleted] Indoor Range would like t...
Saturday, October 17, 2009

Back in the USSR

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Saturday night, my daughter unexpectedly invited me to join her for the Louisville Orchestra's performance of Haydn's Symphony No. ...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Ecological Costs of Low Prices

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This is from Jefferson Decker's review of Nelson Lichtenstein's The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Bu...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Baseball wrapup

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I really enjoyed the Tigers-Twins game Tuesday that reflected a prolonged regular season. My sympathy goes out to the Detroit fans among my ...
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Nobel

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Yesterday, at Duck of Minerva, I blogged " Peace Prize " about Barack Obama winning the Nobel award. I noted my surprise since nea...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Sustainability Report Card 2009

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Many local administrators are pleased that the Sustainable Endowments Institute has awarded the University of Louisville a grade of B+ in i...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Real Food Challenge

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This year, I'm heading up the Arts & Sciences "Green Team," which has mostly focused on energy conservation issues in the ...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Climate Politics update

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I haven't been providing links to the blog I started in August: Climate Politics: IR and the Environment . So, here's a list of my m...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Books and reading

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This isn't the greatest on-line test that I've taken, but blogging around here has been rather slow lately: What Kind of Reader Are ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Health care debate

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"If you spell something wrong, do you really deserve surgery?" Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell I'm no healt...