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May 30, 2008
Posted by Kate Wing in The Media and the Environment
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- america, charleskrauthammer, communist, georgewill, salon
Today, I found out I am a communist. I can't believe my parents never told me this, back when I was playing poker in the front yard and gleefully taking my friends' nickels. Apparently I was supposed to divvy up...
January 14, 2008
Posted by Kate Wing in The Media and the Environment
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- candyman, Google, Merrill Lynch, recession
Advertising folks will tell you that repetition is the key to getting an idea stuck in your head. Summer camp and Hollywood will tell you that saying something at least three times (preferably at midnight, while looking in a mirror)...
January 2, 2008
Posted by Kate Wing in The Media and the Environment
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- Edge, newyears, paradigm shift
and if I were Ben Gibbard, I might not feel any different. But I do, just a little. Maybe it's three days of hikes in the sunny cold air, rearranging my office, lots of Yorkshire pudding, or the disquieting news...
September 26, 2007
Posted by Kate Wing in Living Sustainably
, The Media and the Environment
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- beer, marketing, psychology, rationalismvsempiricism, SWA
You've got to be at least a little curious about people to work in policy. Otherwise, you could just be a field scientist and spend all your time with penguins or microscopes. But people, well, they're kind of fascinating. What...
August 22, 2007
Posted by Kate Wing in The Media and the Environment
- Tags:
- environmentalism, incrementalism, Mos Def
At the Mos Def show on Saturday, I stood near a guy with a shirt that read "Militant Vegan". He had a fairly serious demeanor despite the sunny day and tight rhymes coming from the stage, so I started speculating...
August 21, 2007
Posted by Kate Wing in The Media and the Environment
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- brianmay, queen, science
Sorry, NRDC webmasters, I just don't know how to categorize the news that Queen guitarist Brian May is now a doctor of astronomy. Candidate for best professor quote of 2007:‘I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a...