As many students begin applying for the 2010 academic school year, students are looking at an economic climate where endowments are hit, student loans are more restrictive, and parents have seen 529 plans sink along side their retirement plans.  The upcoming school year will be highly competitive and expensive but will it be worth it?  Now college itself isn’t a direct link to a career and many bristle when they hear about vocational training.  Yet when someone is paying $50,000 a year, you have to ask what exactly you are paying for. Read the rest of this entry »

(Robert Singer) – The “predators of data freedom” were stalking the Internet before 9/11 but after the alleged “Arab terrorist” attack their chutzpah seems to have no limits. Read the rest of this entry »

The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree will astound future generations. Such hysteria simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public, the susceptibility of the public to the substitution of repetition for truth, and the exploitation of these weaknesses by politicians, environmental promoters, and, after 20 years of media drum beating, many others as well. Read the rest of this entry »

Google’s controversial Street View mapping service has been banned in Greece until the company comes up with extra privacy guarantees. Read the rest of this entry »