Cody Taylor

Obama adminstration brings back the Freedom of Information Act and transparency in government

The “Little Ice Age” Argument: Too many scientists are either ignoring, or don’t understand, the well-established fact that Earth’s climate has changed rapidly in the past and could change rapidly in the future—in either direction.

A Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge yesterday that the Bush administration will meet its legal requirement to transfer e-mails to the National Archives after spending more than million to locate 14 million e-mails reported missing four years ago from White House computer files.(But no one’s seen them yet.)

and she startled me as well

This may be hard to believe: In 2003, no pro sports team in the world was worth a billion dollars. By the end of 2008, there were 24, led by European soccer powerhouse Manchester United.

Instead, 1970s cutting-edge skateboarding, in the popular consciousness, belongs not to Salt Creek but to Santa Monica—Dogtown, and yes, the Z-boys, or the Zephyr skateboard team. While they boast their own impressive archive of achievements, the flamboyant, long-haired bad-boy antics of Tony Alva, Jay Adams, Stacy Peralta, Jim Muir…

Graffiti artists have added a new tool their traditional aerosol cans – knitting needles and a ball of wool.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has ended 65 logging contracts in order to stamp out corruption and to enforce legal and environmental standards. While ending huge concessions to almost untaxed logging companies, the move will reduce the rainforest’s exploited timber by almost half and pave the way to real development for local communities.

The number of people on the organ donor register in the UK has hit a record 16 million, meeting a government target of doubling 2001’s numbers a year early.

Fidel Castro praised U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday for his ”noble intentions” but said in his first opinion column in five weeks that the new American leader had many questions to answer. Castro’s prolonged silence after months of prolific column writing had contributed to speculation that the ailing 82-year-old was on his death bed.