‘They call it public policy’ Archives
Shoot! What A Smelly Landfill!
CANONIZING AN ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM Several cities are toying with changing their names to Google to see if that'll land 'em ultrafast Internet. Bejing, the Capital of China isn't one of them. But its good name IS being sullied by big piles of smelly garbage. Bejingers toss out roughly 18,000 tons of garbage each day. It's out of space [...]
Smokers Are Dumb, Dumb, Dumb!
SUBSTANCE ABUSE: Smoker Brain. What's science GOOD for, you may ask? I dunno, I may answer. But maybe it could serve to humiliate people who are already miserable and make them feel worse. A (smug and self satisfied?) study led by Dr. Mark Weiser (Sheba Medical Center) concludes that the higher your IQ, the less likely you are to [...]
Politics: SO Rigorous. SO Logical.
Test: How is political debate different from science? I will pick up your papers at the end of the class. I don't want you looking at anyone else's answers.
Smoking: Now The Tough Cases
SMOKING'S BAD But you already KNEW that, didn't you. Of course you did. Who, other than teenagers, is unaware that smoking ruins your heart, destroys your lungs, wrinkles your skin, and makes you look sophisticated. Did I say that? Anyway,you know it's really, really bad for you and if you could quit, you already did. Some people [...]
