Bright FuturaBerkeley Physicist Admits ‘Wrong About Global Warming’
UC Berkeley physicist, and longtime climate skeptic, Richard Muller has finally gone on the offensive, publicly admitting he was wrong to doubt global-warming data in a piece for The Wall Street Journal. Richard Muller Warns Congress That Global Warming is Real Related: Berkeley Scientists Discover Two Largest Black Holes Related: Was Einstein Wrong? Subatomic Particles [...]
U.S. Undergrads Deny Throwing Firebombs In Cairo
Watch video here (CBS/AP) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The father of an American student arrested during protests in Egypt says his 19-year-old son has called home and said he’s being treated well under the circumstances. Derrik Sweeney, of Jefferson City, Mo., was among three American students arrested this week in Cairo. Kevin Sweeney says his [...]
Flash Mob Proposal On UCLA Campus
Nam and Trang met each other on the campus of UCLA. He decided to bring her back to where they met for the ultimate surprise! [polldaddy poll=5563847]
Why Chinese students put us to shame
This summer, I spent 7 weeks teaching English in Jiangsu province, China. While I was there, I became progressively more and more Chinese. The superficial, cultural traits I picked up – driving like a maniac, clicking my fingers at waitresses, proposing a toast every five minutes to anyone I’m remotely enjoying having dinner with – [...]
Somalia: On the Brink, Out of the Spotlight
By Harry DiFrancesco Is the world about to watch 750,000 Somalis starve to death?” The opening line to a story I read in Friday’s New York Times. Given the fact that the story didn’t even make the front page of the International Section, let alone A1 — it was buried on A5 — I couldn’t [...]