by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 28, 2019 | Big Picture
Grandma and Grandpa are sitting alone in their living room in Dubuque, Iowa in February. It is -15° Fahrenheit (-26°C) and they haven’t been truly comfortable in two months. They want a Club Med vacation – get down to a warm, sunny place for a few weeks – but they are...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 11, 2019 | Big Picture
Most people think of the arctic as remote – a wasteland inhabited by polar bears (true) and penguins (untrue) – with little relevance to their daily lives. Most people are wrong. While the arctic may be distant for us geographically, what happens there has an enormous...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Feb 28, 2019 | All AgTech, Big Picture
Author and podcaster Sam Harris points out that people’s political positions tend to cluster: if you meet a gun control advocate, you can safely bet they also favor legal access to abortion services, for instance. The problem is that people’s opinions about the...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Feb 22, 2019 | Big Picture
Ray Dalio, the Founder of the enormously influential hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, takes as the first of his Life Principles: Embrace Reality and Deal with It. 7 November 2018; Ray Dalio, Founder, Co-Chief Investment Officer & Co-Chairman,...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jan 25, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
Thanks to a particularly odious little troll of a man and to a writer whose two major works the late, great Christopher Hitchens describes as “transcendently awful”, the word “tax” has a nearly obscene connotation. Nonetheless, it is clear to me that a carbon tax,...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Dec 20, 2018 | Big Picture
Paul Romer, co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Economics, in discussion with attendees at the Romer Chat Event taking place during the 2014 Annual Summit of the International Transport Forum “Transport for a Changing World” on 22 May 2014 in Leipzig, Germany....
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