Random links
- Teacher fined for transporting 19 children in her little car [3 pictures]
- "She fit 6 kids in the trunk, 3 in the front seat, and 10 in the back." Looks like there'll be no more field trips.
- Blue Truth, Red Truth
- "Both candidates say White House hopefuls should talk straight with voters. Here's why neither man is ready to take his own advice." Another thing to note is that the parties seem united in trying to trying to keep the moderator from being able to rephrase questions or ask followups - enabling Romney and Obama to avoid diverging from their canned speeches.
- Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across U.S.
- I'm never quite sure how seriously to take claims of record high temperatures versus record lows at any point in time. This looks at trends in the ratio of record highs to lows over the past few decades in the U.S.
- Are electric cars bad for the environment?
- I've mentioned before that depending on what type of powerplant dominates in a region, electric car efficiency varies this article also argues, amongst other interesting bits that "the 'global warming potential' of the process used to make electric cars is twice that of conventional cars" (HT: KP)