Here's my brother-in-law Steve.  In addition to being a terrific blues guitarist, he is a philosopher.

The high cost of gas is starting to sink in.  To prove it, I saw these guys driving around yesterday.

The ocean is now washing away the Alaskan village of 400 Inupiat villagers. According to story and these interviews by DemocracyNow's Amy Goodman, the villagers have responded by filing suit against twenty Oil, gas and electric companies, accusing them of "conspiracy to mislead the public about the causes of global…

In America, many Republican politicians, including presidential candidate John McCain, are using the recent spike in oil prices to call for increased domestic production, including opening wildlife refuges to oil drilling. In response, opponents are arguing that increased production will merely perpetuate America's addiction to oil, worsening environmental damage and…

In an article entitled "The Crowd Within," The Economist has commented on some recent work that has expanded on the earlier and well-publicized counter-intuitive findings of James Surowiecki, author of "The Wisdom of Crowds" (2005). Surowiecki found that the aggregated guesses of non-experts were often startlingly accurate. The averaged guesses…