Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Vacation: not just for Europeans any more
As alert readers know, every year around this time, Grist takes a two-week publishing break, while we staffers try to get used to being away from a keyboard for a while. The finger-twitching usually dies down right about the time we have to come back.
The break starts Monday, and consequently posting will be very light, possibly (one can hope!) absent entirely.
We'll be back on Jan. 3, with some exciting developments for Gristmill. Stay tuned.
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Green bytes
Some tips over at About.com on greening your high-tech purchases.
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Wangari Maathai’s Nobel Lecture
Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 10, 2004:
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Stossel and Crichton, a match made in … uh …
Noted hack John Stossel has found a true brother-in-hackery. On Dec. 10's 20/20, Stossel effusively praised Crichton's new book State of Fear (more on that here, and more to come), which purports to expose global warming as a media scare story perpetrated by Hollywood liberals and, oh, you know, all the usual winger suspects.
He offered no countervailing view (from, say, a scientist), instead interviewing a woman ready to pee her pants in fear after seeing The Day After Tomorrow -- presumably representative of the hysteria on the issue. The rest of the segment was devoted to lionizing the "brave" Crichton, who is allegedly taking a great risk by publishing this media-friendly, sensationalist execrement. Read the whole gory story here.
