Vermont Yankee: Dirty, Dangerous, Too Costly to Compute

Thu. Jan. 8th, 2015

ermont Yankee is so safe that its 690 tons of savagely radioactive waste fuel is stored in a pool without backup cooling systems or backup generators. Can you say “Fukushima”?

Let’s play a game.

Thu. Jan. 8th, 2015  |  Harry Drabik

A place where the game of suspending judgment seems unlikely but it used in 3D full color versions is politics.

Climate Deniers, Like Big Tobacco, Thrive Behind A Smoke Screen Of Doubt

Thu. Jan. 8th, 2015

Today, the fossil-fuel industry creates a smoke screen of doubt, just like Big Tobacco. Greenpeace USA published a report in 2013, “Dealing in Doubt,” that maps out the history of the climate-denial industry

Synthetic food: Our future doesn’t taste good

Thu. Jan. 8th, 2015

Armed with hefty grants from the Pentagon, squads of corporate and governmental food technologists are on a mission to supplant nature with a great leap forward in the Brave New World of synthetic foodstuffs.

Let’s Get Muddy

Thu. Jan. 8th, 2015  |  Jim Lundstrom

The most dangerous brewing mishap involved a batch of root beer that I was brewing for my kids. I just didn’t believe the ridiculously small amount of sugar called for in the recipe to give the root beer its carbonation, so I doubled the amount

Woodpecker Niche

Thu. Jan. 8th, 2015  |  Emily Stone

ust a few minutes up the trail after seeing the hairy woodpecker, we again heard a tapping noise through the fog and sleet. Like déjà vu, a black-and-white checkered woodpecker clung to a birch tree

Team Woes Worry Wild Worshippers….

Thu. Jan. 8th, 2015  |  Marc Elliott

The travails of the Minnesota Wild are continuing to be a source of despair and desperation for many fans, scribes and those associated with the team.

This Species is Amusing Itself to Death

Thu. Jan. 8th, 2015  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

The Diagnosis for the Future Inhabitants of our Dying Planet

Quarterbacks Rule at Football Playoff Time

Thu. Jan. 8th, 2015  |  John Gilbert

Now we get serious with the National Football League playoffs. The wild card games are over, and the four teams that spent last weekend with byes swing into action.

The many flavors of favors

Thu. Jan. 8th, 2015  |  Melvyn Magree

I had started my column for this week on politics and was trying to figure out how to use a U.S. Court of Appeals opinion.  As I tried to find a good summary of the case, there was a knock on our front door.