Archive | November 2, 2009

Nota Bene #90: Monkey Business

“One reads such links, and what can one say but—

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Sound (magical) financial advice

by Terry Hargrove When it comes to managing money, some people have lawyers, some have accountants, and some have financial advisors. Me? I have a money fairy. The money fairy came to me in 1986. I was at a yard sale in Tennessee, and stumbled upon a plastic egg that was marked at $5. That […]

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20 million years of CO2 and ice sheet/sea level correlation

When you look at the ice core record, there’s a significant amount of correlation between sea level rise and the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air at the time. But the ice core record goes back less than a million years. A study published a couple of weeks ago in the journal Science […]

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Newspaper circulation falls again: Expect more cuts

If you were a newspaper subscriber last year, there’s a 10 percent chance you aren’t this year. That’s because paid circulation of daily newspapers nationally fell more than 10 percent from a year ago. Some papers suffered truly horrendous daily circulation losses: the San Francisco Chronicle (down 25.8 percent), The Boston Globe (down 18.5 percent) […]

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The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson

by Dawn Farmer The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson by Chris Mackowski* and Kristopher D. White Thomas Publications *S&R’s very own Chris Mackowski Reading The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson is like poring over a treasure chest of family relics as a wise uncle explains the contents. The wise uncles are the authors Chris and […]

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