Brian Gongol


This happens just as Tropical Storm Erin hits southern Texas and Flossie spares Hawaii. It sure looked like it could've been bad for a while. There is, however, a supertyphoon headed straight for Taiwan and eastern China. Hurricanes in the Atlantic are about twice as common as they were a hundred years ago. Related: Satellite imagery shows just how bad the flooding in China was in July.


The classic measure of how much people ought to pay for stocks has been ignored pretty badly over the last decade or two

Robert Gifford led the station into the contemporary talk-radio format


...Even though a Russian airplane dropped a guided missile on Georgia on August 6th


Says that's going to hurt the company's year-end profits. Home Depot is seeing a huge slide in profits, too. China, meanwhile, is finding shipping prices to be a drag. But on the up-side, the government expects gas prices to fall through the end of 2007.

Canadian study shows that the differences can be dramatic, based solely upon where a woman lives

Says they're deploying too often, with too little time at home and too little conventional training. The stresses of deployment in Iraq most certainly contribute to fatigue, too.

That is, should we work full-speed at abandoning internal combustion and get serious about improving our ability to produce electricity instead?

Importantly, that group includes more than 12,000 people returning from combat overseas

With nothing more than mobile phones and willing participants, flash mob organizers can get 50 people to show up and do stupid, quasi-anonymous things with little or no notice. It doesn't take much in terms of expense or technology to coordinate action, so building a massive bureaucracy to act as the bulkhead keeping terrorism at bay doesn't make a load of sense. We need to spread out our risks and make the average person considerably more aware than we're ever expected them to be.

It's mildly left-leaning, but the overall story is very worthwhile