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“In November of 1660, at Gresham College in London, an invisible college of learned men held their first meeting after 20 years of informal collaboration.
                    1. The Demise of Diet Soda
“you can feel it, but you just can’t explain it.”
Marshmallows and Parolees  
“There’s a weird internet cult of renewables haters, and also the strange case of the state of Texas, where renewables are the
There is good news. Globally, manmade GHGs are decreasing, perhaps not at the rate we might like to see, but dropping nonetheless. Now for some counterintuitive and bad news.
Bail reform is a political hot button.
For various reasons, this week’s What I Am Reading includes three articles that I mentioned when I started this column, three years ago. It is not that I ran out of material, I just ran out of bandwidth being off the grid.