Sublime

that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.

The hockey stick was a graph constructed by some scientists about ten years ago. What it was meant to show was that the earth’s temperature from about 1080 till about 1850 remained essentially constant and then it started to shoot up. Lots of problems have been found out in the graph. The most glaring error in the hockey stick was that it did not

Human nature requires catastrophes to jolt us into change—but with some catastrophes, notably climate change, by the time that happens it may be too late.

Koch, such talk vanished. Instead, Tea Party Republicans worked hard to undermine any connection between climate and national security.

A University of Maryland study showed that in Harris County, which includes Houston, prosecutors were three times more likely to seek the death penalty for African Americans, and four times more likely for Hispanics, than for whites convicted of the same charges.

rapacious

When Yaphet Kotto came to New Orleans and gave the Black Power salute, there were those who said he had a chip on his