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Do you really believe that science has the answer to everything? In '13 Things That Don't Make Sense', Michael Brooks questions the limits of the scientific method and scientific understanding.
Paperback, 288 pages
Published October 7th 2009 by Not Avail (first published January 1st 2008)
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Thirteen things that don’t make sense

I worried about starting this book – worried much more than I ought to have worried – but worried nonetheless. I mean, things could only be bad. Here was a book that was going to tell me about thirteen things that required a ‘paradigm shift’ in science. It was the number 13 that bothered me more than anything else. The world is full of morons and one of the surest ways of spotting such a moron is via numerology. Crystals are also good, well, as is homeopathy.
Mike (the Paladin)
Fairly interesting account of certain anomalies in science. Dark matter, Cold Fusion and some others. A lot of what comes out here is the fact that the scientific community is as human as the rest of us. So often if findings fly in the face of "established scientific fact" the person making the finding or following up on the research is completely ruined.

As in a researcher with a doctorate ending his days as a clerk in a stockroom or a Nobel laureate forced into retirement.

I got this out of cur
In 13 Things That Don't Make Sense, Michael Brooks takes a brief look at 13 thorny problems which science has no good solution to. The problems are explained in simple terms, and include such things as death, sex, life, dark matter, and the placebo effect. What Brooks shows is that despite the best efforts of generations of scientists, and all the marvels of modern technology, we are far from understanding even such basic things as what the universe is made of and what it means to be alive.

A re
I really enjoyed this book. In a world where most geographical frontiers have already been explored it's inspiring to read about the wild west of science where our knowledge is small and great discoveries are still to be made.

The author did a good job of interweaving the 13 things so the book felt like a single work and not 13 distinct essays. There are interesting humans elements to the book. It's fascinating how the careers of so many scientists were affected by their 'discoveries.' The final
14th thing that doesn't make sense: Covers on public toilet seats. I mean no-one ever puts it down, and if they do, do you want to touch a public toilet seat cover to lift it up? I don't.

15th thing that doesn't make sense: Most people have two feet, thus two socks. Most people put two socks into the wash, there surely can't be many who sniff their socks and decide that one of them could go another day. So what happens then? It is a complete mystery to me how the collection of single socks comes
Consistently mind-blowing - until about the halfway point, where the focus shifts from the cosmic to the prosaic. Now granted, I'm a scientific ignoramus, but I can't be alone in feeling that cosmology is just way sexier than biology, so to go from heady speculations about a multiplicity of universes to - of all sublunary things - the wonders of homeopathy -- well, it kind of killed my buzz.

Highly recommended, in any case, especially for those who, like me, are impatient with the nuts and bolts
15 Oct 2014: Just finished editing the Bulgarian translation.

24 Oct 2014: This is a much-needed book, for both scientists and laymen.

Firstly, because it teaches humility: never again shall you say to yourselves, I know all of it; there is nothing left to discover.

Secondly, because it prods us to keep asking questions: What are we taking for granted? Is this bit of knowledge reached by consensus or established by conformity (or worse yet, complacence)? What other approaches are there to it? What
The further into the book I read the more I got into it as it progressed from the cosmological to the physical to the biological. Most intriguing to me were the looks at cold fusion, free will, the placebo effect, and homeopathy. With thirteen areas examined, including life, sex and death, there is probably something here for everyone. Everyone, except those who are unwilling to challenge their assumptions.
Jigar Brahmbhatt
The purpose of this book is to show, by 13 different examples, how science has a long way to go before it can assure us that "all is under control". Somehow, we are aware of this limitation. I am still unsure of the writer's stance. Is he in favor of science? He explains one set of difficulties scientists faced in a certain area of research, before moving on to another. There are interesting bits of information peppered in, which is all this book has to offer in my opinion, so that you can sound ...more
Ken Cramer
This book offered a fascinating glimpse into the world of science – with all of its successes and still all of its lingering mysteries. It is engaging, well-written, and leaves you above all else – thinking! The author however makes two mistakes (hence one less star): one grave, and the other… More grave.

Early in the book, the author explains how science is not about people, it's about nature. This is a likely conclusion from someone ingrained in physics, which is what the book is mostly about.
I realized, before starting this book, that some of the topics might be "old hat". I've read about the dark matter/dark energy mystery in a number of books. But I wasn't ready for the other fascinating mysteries, that truly surprised me. For example, I thought that the placebo effect was well understood. But evidently not. For example, the common drug Valium (dizaepam) has a strong effect; but only if the person taking it understands what the effect should be. Tests have shown that the drug is n ...more
Michael Brooks only really had about 11 interesting things that science has trouble explaining. "Homeopathy" and "Free Will" seemed kind of tacked on in order to reach 13. "11 things that don't make sense" being the far less catchy title.
13 Things That Don't Make Sense is a quick overview of some of the current questions that are still left unanswered by science. The role of the book is important in that it nicely outlines a few areas of our ignorance but I feel that some things were skipped while others were played up. I also feel that the book succumbs to a bit of false equivocation but does so in the spirit of "everything's not quite solved".

The section on the dark matter problem gives excess weight to modified newtonian dyna
A decent overview of some the unsolved questions that modern science is currently puzzling over (how to explain all the "missing" matter in the universe) or lacks the data to answer conclusively any time soon (is there life on other planets? do we really have free will?). Then there are a few chapters concerning what might be described as fringe science (e.g. cold fusion, the placebo effect, homeopathic medicine). While I appreciate the spirit of inquiry, I suspect that homeopathic medicine is p ...more
Cassandra Kay Silva
Any book that makes you ponder subjects that are seemingly inherently necessary (find a necessity for sexual reproduction or death) in a new light are going to be getting a thumbs up from me. I enjoy that, it is defiantly on my track of thinking. He took on a number of controversial topics and some of them (homeopathy for example) I don't think I will ever agree with given the current state of affairs but the author doesn't really ask you to agree with anything. He just says there are things tha ...more
Joel Tone
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …”
– Isaac Asimov

I recently read 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense by Micheal Brooks. It’s a popular science book that opens with the above quote and discusses thirteen things that are “funny” about modern science. I really enjoyed this book.

Each of the chapters in this book describes something that’s a little (or a lot) off when described by the current best theory. W
Harold Smithson (Suicide punishable by Death)
A while ago, I read an article on Yahoo (Almost always a bad idea, but it happened nevertheless) about a scientist who claimed that we were an inch away from completely disproving god from a purely objective standpoint. I was unimpressed with the article, but I found the comments on the article to be great reading.

Namely because the article was universally reviled by atheists and agnostics as much as the religious. Though they did not believe in god, they claimed that our grasp of the universe w
Tim Pendry
Michael Brooks' survey of anomalies in contemporary science (2009 - UK Edition) might be regarded as a riposte to the 'end of science' thesis promoted by John Horgan in the mid-1990s. He makes a very good case although one has the suspicion that it is not that there is nothing else to know (which this book shows would be an absurd proposition) but perhaps that there are things that, because of the limitations of ourselves as human observers, we may never know.

Brooks adopts a systematic approach,
I liked this book a lot. Complicated, but accessible discussions of dark matter, dark energy, changing universal constants, life, death, sex, free will, giant viruses, the placebo effect, homeopathy, and three other things I can't remember at the moment. I listened to this as an audiobook, and the British narrator brings a dry sense of humor to his narration that makes the book easier to follow.

The title of this book could have been "!3 Things That Don't Make Sense if God is Taken Out of the Eq
I genuinely liked this book. It might not be the greatest scientific book I might've read this year but it was informative enough to enjoy and absorb few things I was unaware of. Must say, I was not baffled by all 13 things, but, I did like what Author had to say about Cold Fusion and Placebo Effect. A decent read.
Philip Hollenback
Warning: don't read this book if you don't want to be freaked out about our place in the universe. Brooks takes you through thirteen different scientific problems that don't make sense given our current understanding of how the universe works. For example, he explains how there appears to genuinely be something weird going on with cold fusion that nobody can explain.

My favorite was his description of the experiments that illustrate we don't actually have free will. Neurologists are in general ag
'13 Things' gives layman descriptions for 13 anomalies in modern science, which I thoroughly enjoy because I happen to be of said layman type.

This book is a good read for those of us who loved science class, but have never had the time to acknowledge (or even care about) today's top questions in science.

This book will NOT allow you succeed in a scientific debate with an actual scientist.

This book will however introduce you to some interesting topics, which then allows you to go back to your lif
Pete Jones
I was told that I should be reading boring books before bed; this seemed an obvious choice. The problem with that is that in many places this book reads like some of my classes in my senior year of statistics—the type where the whole class was devoted to proving a theorem. The prof would start on one blackboard and continue around the room erasing his earlier writings to make room for more. At the beginning of the class you understood what was to be proved and you followed the proof step-by-step ...more
A highly-scientific read that will likely leave you asking more questions than it attempts to address. It's incredibly well written, but be forewarned that it is often weighed down by its own jargon and examples. The two sections I found most compelling were the cold fusion study, and the discussion on homeopathy. If you've ever followed the case of cold fusion some years ago, even on the surface, it is quite a story. This section also probably humanizes its participants the most, especially sur ...more
A thought-provoking and very readable tour of thirteen questions that many scientists would like to see answered. Among other things we discover that the 1970s Viking Mars landers did find some evidence of microbial life (not as conclusive as NASA wanted and compromised by equipment failure, resulting in an official report that did not mention it), that there may be something in cold fusion after all, and that sex and death are not as easily explained as you might think.

I found some of the topic
Mary Warner
The topic that attracted me to this book was homeopathy, and wouldn't you know, it was covered in the very last chapter of the book. I do, however, enjoy reading about various topics in science, so it was no chore to read the entire book. In fact, Michael Brooks does a fine job of describing what can be very complicated scientific subjects in such a way that the lay person (me!) can understand them.

The book is targeted at explaining 13 mysteries of science and the stories behind why these partic
Very interesting book! makes for a good complimentary read to a book such as "The Grand Design". Whereas the grand design starts from a perspective of "this is what we can explain", this book starts from the opposite side of the coin - i.e. "this is what we can't explain". Why i quite liked the book, is that the perception (of a layman such as me certainly) when reading a book such as Grand Design is one of "wow, we've pretty much got it all mostly figured out, now we're just filling in some min ...more
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Thirteen topics, each with a chapter. Chapters 1-4 are fantastic, especially if you are interested in theoretical physics or astronomy. The weight of the universe, spacecraft flouting our current model of gravity, universal constants and the ever-popular matter of cold fusion. Chapter 8, detailing a monster virus, is interesting even to those who may not be into biology. But that is where the greatness ends.

The rest of the topics range from the mildly interesting to the slow a
Jo Green
This book probably would have gotten 5 stars instead of 4 if I understood more of it, but what I got was a lot of fun. This is stuff that is consistent but why? The expanding of our universe, and when they got to the equations, I just duh-ed out! Dang though this stuff is cool, I wish I was smarter in physics. They really could have put more in this book and it would have been fine, because the stuff that I did get it was well presented and fascinating. We've come so far and then something just ...more
Apr 07, 2011 David rated it 4 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition
Recommends it for: Science nuts
I didn’t expect to like this book. With a title like “13 Things that Don’t Make Sense” I assumed that Brooks was simply going to throw out 13 mysteries that we all wonder about. What I read was a well thought out treatment for every one of the 13 “Things”. That said, there were parts of this book that I liked, and parts that I did not like. There are clearly objective mysteries presented in the area of particle physics where it is clear that nobody currently knows the answers to certain basic qu ...more
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His first novel, Entanglement, was published in 2007. His first non-fiction book, an exploration of scientific anomalies entitled 13 Things That Don't Make Sense, was published in 2009.

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03-26-2012, 12:38 PM

This is my first FULL year in the landscaping business. Quick question regarding tax deductions. So far for this year, I have been keeping track of my gas for my equipment (mowers, weedeater, blower, etc) as supplies expenses. Is the full cost of the gas for my equipment tax deductible? I've been counting the cost as a supplies expense along with other things, (tools, trimmer string etc.) Thanks in advance for any help.

03-26-2012, 04:36 PM
What you spend is never fully recovered, you do receive a percentage back on most things. The percentage you receive back highly depends on your area.

03-26-2012, 08:43 PM
any fuel you buy for equipment is tax deductible. . BESIDES your truck (fuel). . you keep track of your miles for that and they deduct off your miles you put on for business. . any thing you buy for the company. . you can write off on your taxes. . even if you buy a notebook and pens. . anything and i mean anything you buy you can right off.....

03-27-2012, 04:53 AM
plus fuel for equipment you can deduct the road use tax per gallon

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Before you ask this question here, or from friends etc-CONTACT AN ACCOUNTANT- keep alllllllll your recipts, keep detailed records of how many miles you drive for business, it is best to have two vehicles. By keeping very detailed records and alll of your receipts with an accoutnants help you can make good money and write off just about everything.

03-27-2012, 01:07 PM
Are you going to be doing your own taxes with a tax software product or will you be using an accountant/tax preparer?

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I will tell you like this!!!

I have 2 trucks and so my dually is straight business use!

There for I right off the payment, insurance and all diesel that goes into my truck!

I also write off all gas for my mowers and trimmers etc....

But like it was said earlier in this thread just about anything.

My accountans have always told me that you cannot write off food based on breakfast or lunch etc BUT "if you take a client to lunch, dinner ect" its covered but only half of the bill not including tip!

So there for if you take your family out for dinner just say "its business related" and you can write off half.

Also your big purchaces like mowers, trailer, and truck will be spread over a 5 year period minus depreciation and you can write off a certian amount every year!!!

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So make sure you save everything and keep detailed records because it will save you $$$$ @ the accountant!!!

Lastly like said earlier if you only have 1 truck doccumet your milage from when you leave home to when u get back home because you can right off the milage I remember a few years ago they were payig 49.5 cent a mile!!!

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Leeds lass Laura Jones is on her way to becoming a household name on the deep house circuit. Already racking up hot releases on Visionquest and Leftroom, Laura’s set to release her next EP on Damian Lazarus‘ legendary Crosstown Rebels, which is only further proof that she’s one to watch closely over the coming months! Take a listen to the Laura Jones promo mix for Fabric ahead of her show in EC1 this Saturday:

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Florida Governor Charlie Crist is making good on his pledge to force property taxes to "drop like a rock." But as cities and counties write their 2008 budgets this month, what's dropping feels more like a meat ax.

Localities across Florida are cutting positions and rolling back services in response to the property-tax cut, which the legislature passed in June. Most say they can manage Tallahassee's order, which lopped as much as 9 percent off local revenues. But if Florida voters pass part two of the package next January, cities and counties would face such deep deficits that some may have to re-think what local government does.

For now, service cutbacks are being felt hardest in quality-of-life programs, such as recreation and libraries. But in some places, cutbacks are hitting public safety and economic development. The Broward County sheriff may ditch a special drunk-driving unit and a boot camp program for nonviolent criminals. And St. Lucie County, which has embraced Florida's bold strategy of developing a biotech industry, can't find local money to match state funds for luring research institutions.

Because of a quirk in how the state law works, some localities are feeling less pinched than others. Places that had recently rolled back property taxes on their own get some reprieve, as do ones that are developing rapidly. For example, Lake County, a fast-growing bedroom community west of Orlando, saw its revenues trimmed by only 2 percent.

But a more typical situation is that of the city of Clearwater, which lost 7 percent of its revenues, or about $6 million. Clearwater is looking at cutting about 60 full-time jobs, in addition to slashing funds for a beach transit system known as the "Jolley Trolley" and for the Florida Orchestra. "There's nothing pleasurable or comfortable about it," says City Manager Bill Horne. "You've got employees and partners in the community who could be impacted. But you have to do it."

While local officials recognize that many Floridians want and need some tax relief, they complain about Tallahassee crafting what they see as a one-size-fits-all solution to a local tax problem. Westin Mayor Eric Hersh is suing the state to overturn the first part of the tax-cut law--the one forcing localities to cut their budgets now. He also hopes to get the second part, which would give some homeowners a "super" homestead exemption, knocked off the January ballot.

In Jacksonville, which already enjoys the lowest tax rate among large Florida cities, Mayor John Peyton, a conservative businessman, is proposing to fill a $65 million hole in his budget in part by assessing new fees for garbage collection, storm-water treatment and utilities usage.

Peyton says the fees will diversify Jacksonville's revenue base and help insulate it from the political winds in the capital. "This current policy change cost us $65 million," Peyton says. "The second punch would cost us $100 million-plus. It would be devastating."

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The only time I really eat salad is in the summer when I am barbecuing, but as a meal in itself I'd have to say never. However, as an accompaniment to other dishes, a good salad can be perfect. One of the best I've come across is a really simple Spanish salad that consists of lettuce (a good iceberg will do), thinly sliced tomato and thinly sliced white onion. The important thing to do is dip the think slices of onion into boiling water for two or three minutes so they aren't so strong and over-powering. For the dressing, just use white wine vinegar and olive oil (not extra virgin, because it has too much flavour), and then salt and pepper. It is brilliantly simple, but the flavours are so natural and delicious.

A good all-purpose dressing that I use at home is one measure of white wine vinegar to three measures of ground nut oil (or grape seed oil), then add a little grain mustard and season with salt and pepper.

In terms of ingredients, I think you should keep it simple with salad. I like iceberg lettuce for its crunchiness and sweetness, and maybe a little rocket for contrast. Nothing too overpowering in terms of flavour. An interesting thing I discovered during my food research is that it is not the vinegar that causes the lettuce to 'cook', it is the oil.

I also like cooked vegetables in a salad. For example, cook haricot beans with a little chopped onion, then add some green beans and some shavings of fennel or beetroot and quickly heat them through. Add some chopped parsley and chervil to make it delicious.

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Serve that with a steak next to it and it is perfect.

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Wastelands has undoubtedly been designed to appeal to the broadest audience possible, resulting in an impressively multilayered game. The top layer is quite simple, meaning that players after a relaxing experience can casually stroll through each level, racking up a few kills here and there while enjoying some nice beats from Linkin Park.

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If you have never seen then you are seriously missing out! Mr B’s website is packed full of great maths teaching resources. These include some excellent ‘follow me cards’ for area and perimeter of squares, rectangles and triangles. I took this resource and slightly changed it so that the question and answers are not adjacent to each other on the worksheets which would otherwise have given the game away before they have even started!

If you don’t know what ‘follow me’ cards are, they are simple. They are like dominoes where you have to match them together. On each card you get a question and an answer (to a question on a different card). The idea is that you match the question and answers up so that the cards form a continuous line.

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Barclay Brook is a great school i have a 2nd grader and Pre-k, attending, they both love it. I am also somewhat involved in the PTA and we do a lot for the kids.

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My second child is now attending this school and I could not be happier. You can find this level of dedication anywhere else, even if you paid a private school. They are outstanding.

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We are pleased with the general curriculum, administration, teachers and campus. There are a lot of great extracurricular programs as well, such as PTA sponsored soccer, language and art classes. Very nice school community. Widely considered the strongest elementary school within a district of good schools. Lovely older building. My daughter is quite happy there and is looking forward to starting to learn an instrument as a 4th grader. Music program seems quite comprehensive.
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Loudonville Elementary School is one of the most prestigious schools, in the Capital District, with superb educational leaders, teachers, and administrators.

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NAPERVILLE, Ill. - When teams don't see each other in competition more than once a year, it is difficult to compare and contrast scores and results, so that is one reason why there will be three individuals sharing Player of the Year honors in the America Sky Men's Golf Conference this season, commissioner Ed Grom announced today. When combining the national rankings from GolfStat and GolfWeek, Steve Bidne from Northern Colorado, Jake Katz from Binghamton and Grant Rappleye from Sacramento State distanced themselves from the other conference golfers and were voted tri-Players of the Year by the conference coaches.

Awards were also named for Newcomer of the year, which went to Kevin Kirakossian from Tex-Pan American, and Coach of the Year, which was won by David Sutherland from Sacramento State.

Bidne had five top-10 finishes this season, including an individual title at the Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational with rounds of 68-69-69. He finished the season with the third-best scoring average in the America Sky (73.75) and capped off the season with an 8th-place finish in the conference tournament.

Katz tied for second in five tournaments this past seaston - the St. Bonaventure Inv. (72-68-71), the Cornell Inv. (75-70), the Seton Hall Intercollegiate (71-74), the Lafayette Invitational (78-66) and the Hal Sutton Intercollegiate (72-72-74) - and finished fifth at the America Sky Championship. He established school records for scoring average and low round this season.

Rappleye led the America Sky in scoring average at 73.48 and had three top-10 finishes in 2009-10. He was perhaps the most consistent golfer in the conference as well with 22 of his 27 rounds this year being 75 or lower. He finished tied sixth at the Paulous Cougar Invitational (70-71-73) and the Braveheart Classic (73-73-71), and his best scoring event was the 69-71-71 outing in the Kua'i Collegiate Invitational in Hawaii.

Kirakossian, a freshman from Tualatin, Ore., finished in the top 10 in six tournaments this year, his best finish being a third at the UTPA Fall Invitational and a fourth at the Elkins Lake Golf Invitational. He capped off the season helping his Bronc team captured the National Minority Championship with rounds of 68-72-74.

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Among them: Never underestimate the power of police brutality to enflame black communities.

To be sure, I am not saying that all police misconduct claims are legitimate. But all should be treated with respect. That’s the first step in meeting the larger challenge of fostering trust and cooperation between police and the communities they patrol.

It was coincidentally 50 years ago that a riot erupted in Harlem after a white police officer fatally shot a 15-year-old black youth in front of his friends and other witnesses. The Harlem Riot, as it became known, turned out to be the first in a five year-long wave that marked the late 1960s as an era of “long hot summers” in dozens of cities across America.

President Lyndon B. Johnson named a special commission headed by Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner that found almost all of the disturbances to be triggered by outrage over shootings or “a reservoir of underlying grievances” of which “police practices” topped the list.

Released in 1968 before the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sparked more eruptions, the Kerner report memorably declared our nation to be “moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.”

Although President Johnson largely ignored his own report after its release, the civil rights and “war on poverty” measures he passed opened opportunities in ways that helped close political, economic and social gaps. Widespread changes helped the black middle class to double in size by the mid-1980s and eventually pave the way to the nation’s first biracial president.

Local governments and police departments got smarter, too. Racial and ethnic diversity expanded in police ranks and community policing strategies stressed good neighborhood relations as an effective crime-fighting and community-building effort.

But not everybody got the news. You could see that gap in the contrast between events in Ferguson, where a police officer fatally shot unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown, to nearby St. Louis, where police later fatally shot 25-year-old Kajieme Powell, who was wielding a knife at police.

Coming 10 days into the stormy protests over Brown’s death, the St. Louis case similarly attracted international attention but notably less public outrage. A cellphone video that St. Louis police released the next day made a big difference — and a great argument for more police dashboard and body video cameras.

But the candor and transparency with which the city’s police chief Sam Dotson responded probably was more important.

About 90 minutes after the incident, Dotson was on the scene to offer a detailed explanation and take reporters’ questions. That’s less than the several hours for which Brown’s body was left in the street, according to news reports. Throughout the first two weeks after Brown’s death, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson was about as forthcoming with useful information as North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

Worse, when the town greeted peaceful protestors with full riot gear and armored military vehicles, even prominent conservatives were divided over whether that was too much.

But we still see the Kerner report’s “two nations” in national opinion polls. Since the Brown shooting, a new New York Times/CBS News nationwide poll finds blacks and whites to be as divided over the police conduct issue as they famously were over the O.J. Simpson case — which itself opened up a big divide over how much African-Americans trust the criminal justice system.

For example, while 45 percent of blacks said they have experienced racial discrimination by the police at some point in their lives, almost no whites said they had. And when asked about whether police forces should reflect the racial makeup of the communities they serve, nearly six in 10 blacks said yes while whites are about evenly divided.

In Ferguson, which is two-thirds black, the police force and city government are close to all-white. Black participation in local elections has been much lower than white participation. Perhaps now that will change. Nothing gets the attention of politicians like a big turnout.

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Unilever, UPS, Nike lead efforts to address climate change

Unilever, UPS, Nike lead efforts to address climate change

Despite an uptick in business activity -- which might be expected to result in higher emissions -- some of the world's top-earning companies are managing to reduce their carbon footprints, according to a new report.

Five of the six highest-ranked companies -- Unilever, UPS, Nike, Levi Strauss and L'Oreal -- showed year-over-year revenue growth from 2010 to 2011 while reducing their total emissions across some or all of their business units, according to the Climate Counts 2012-2013 Annual Company Scorecard report, released Wednesday. It ranks major consumer brands on their efforts to address climate change. (GreenBiz Executive Editor Joel Makower sits on Climate Counts' board of directors).

The Durham, N.H.-based organization analyzed public data from 145 companies for its sixth annual report. AB Electrolux, IBM, Bank of America, Stonyfield Farm, Hewlett-Packard, Coca-Cola Company, Groupe Danone, Sony, Siemens and Reckitt-Benckiser rounded out the top-ranked companies. Alongside the toys, children's products and fast food industries, Amazon, Viacom and Wendy’s were among the worst performers.

"The fact that a lot of major corporations are showing the signs of sustainable growth and cutting overall emissions is of huge significance," Mike Bellamente, Climate Counts director, told GreenBiz. "Companies are getting back on their feet but they’re able to do so with more of what we need to do for climate change."

Companies were evaluated on 22 criteria, including the extent to which they conducted a greenhouse gas emissions review, whether they developed a plan to reduce their emissions, and whether those reductions were achieved. They were also scored on their stances on climate and energy policy, as well as on public disclosures of their sustainability performance.

Sixty-six percent of the companies had developed public climate and energy strategies, compared to 25 percent in 2007. Bellamente attributed this growth to an increased ability for companies to make the business case for sustainability, especially in light of extreme weather events over the past few years such as Hurricane Sandy, the Midwestern drought and floods in the U.K.

"They say that there’s real risk and that it's disrupting business from a continuity standpoint," Bellamente said, "and want to invest in renewable energy for the sake of mitigating risks. ... They’re having a conversation with their suppliers and are being more forthright as to why it’s important for them [suppliers] to measure their emissions."

Only a handful of brands have developed energy and climate change strategies for moral reasons, Bellamente said, citing Unilever and its Ben & Jerry’s brand, Levi Strauss and Timberland in this category.

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Top-ranked Unilever achieved a score of 91 out of 100 possible points, the highest score ever awarded since the first Climate Counts report was released in 2007, while an unprecedented number of companies (15) achieved scores of 85 or higher this year.

"Never before has it been so important for business to step up its leadership to address both the causes and the impacts of climate change," said Paul Polman, CEO of U.K.-based Unilever. "Ordinary people are increasingly suffering the effects of extreme weather events and the associated food and water shortages. They are expecting us to be responsible in helping them to manage these challenges."

A short list of the most improved and the least improved companies from 2007 to 2012 provided context to the rankings. eBay, Clorox and Levi Strauss were identified as the top three companies demonstrating what the report described as "noticeable progress." Siemens, Avon and Molson Coors Brewing Company were also included in the "most improved" group.

Amazon, Wendy's and Viacom have shown the least progress since 2007, the report found. "To the extent that these companies are embracing sustainability, there continues to be little publicly available evidence to suggest that they are measuring, reducing and reporting their GHG emissions," it read. Scores for the other companies on the "least improved" list -- Burger King, apparel company Liz Claiborne and McDonald's -- took a downwards turn by the end of the 2007-2012 period.

The clear loser in the report was the toys and children’s products industry. Out of the eight companies that scored zero points, six of the eight were from this category, making it the lowest-scoring sector. Industry leader Hasbro, however, was given a score of 73.

The fast food industry also performed poorly, with Wendy’s and Burger King scoring in single digits (5 and 2 respectively) and McDonald’s at 14.

And despite Apple's score of 62, it ranked at the bottom of its 14 peers in the technology sector. IBM led with a score of 86. But in the Internet/software category, Apple landed just two points behind Google, which was the top-ranked company in that sector with a score of 64. At the other end of the spectrum, prominent online professional network LinkedIn received a score of zero in the Internet/social media category.

Bellamente said that lack of industry and consumer pressure in the worst-performing sectors was responsible for their poor scores.

"[The climate] is just not on their strategic radar," Bellamente said of the fast food industry. He said consumers are asking these companies to perform with better nutrition levels in their products instead of taking action on climate issues: "It hasn't affected their industry negatively enough [for them] to report on their emission levels."

"The same goes for the toys and children's products industry," he added. "Their first order of business is to make sure the children are safe. You've got a lot of companies that manufacture abroad that don't have regulations that make sustainability as much of a science as here," he said.

But Hasbro and Lego have both increased their Climate Count scores by double digits, he said.

Next year, Bellamente expects more companies to look at the consumer end and the downstream effect of how their footprint can be managed through R&D, similar to the way Unilever approaches sustainability.

"At Unilever, everyone in the company has a sustainability target -- from the guy who makes the shampoo to the guy who makes the shampoo packaging," he said. "You’ll start to see more of that embedded into organizations."

Top-tier ranked companies (scores in parentheses):

Unilever (91)

UPS (89)

Nike (89)

Levi Strauss (87)

L'Oreal (87)

AB Electrolux (87)

IBM (86)

Bank of America (86)

Stonyfield Farm (86)

Hewlett-Packard (85)

Coca-Cola Company (85)

Groupe Danone (85)

Sony (85)

Siemens (85)

Reckitt-Benckiser (85)

Sector leaders (scores in parentheses):

Airlines: Lufthansa (77)

Apparel/Accessories: Nike (89)

Banks: Bank of America (86)

Beer: Heineken (79)

Consumer Shipping: UPS (89)

Food Products: Unilever (91)

Food Services: Starbucks (69)

Home and Office: Herman Miller (66)

Hotels: Marriott (70)

Household Products: L'Oreal (87)

Internet/Software: Google (64)

Large Appliances: AB Electrolux (87)

Media: News Corporation (67)

Pharmaceuticals: Johnson & Johnson (82)

Technology (formerly Electronics): IBM (86)

Toys & Children's Equipment: Hasbro (73)

For a full copy of the 2012-2013 report, visit the Climate Counts website.


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Inoorero University - Lecturers (ICT, Business, Law) and Assistant Registrar Jobs in Kenya

Inoorero University wishes to recruit mature, committed and self driven individuals for the following positions:

1) Lecturers in ICT, Business and Law

Overall Purpose of the position

To design, develop and deliver a range of programmes at Certificate, Diploma and Degree level for teaching at Inoorero University, in order to enable students to complete their studies successfully, and to determine, develop and carry out relevant independent research projects to extend knowledge in the appropriate subject area.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Integration
  • Promote the vision and mission of the University and implement the University Strategic Plan.
  • Contribute to the development of research strategies
Teaching and Learning:
  • Design, develop and deliver a range of programmes of study (sometimes for entirely new courses) at various levels.
  • Review and update, where necessary, course content on regular basis.
  • Develop and apply innovative and appropriate teaching techniques including e-learning and to prepare materials that create interest, understanding and enthusiasm among students
  • Ensure that course design, content and delivery comply with quality standards and regulations of the department as well as Universities regulations and the Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy
  • Supervise student projects, field trips, attachments and where appropriate, placements
  • Set, invigilate, mark and assess assignments, continuous assessment tests (CATs), projects and examination and provide timely feedback to students and the department
  • Offer advisory interventions to students on their performance, employment market trends and career development
  • Promote the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship and interaction of students with industry partners in learning and innovation.
  • Determine relevant research objectives and prepare research proposals
  • Identify sources of funding and oversee the process of securing funds
  • Carry out independent research towards acquiring higher academic qualifications
  • Write or contribute to publications or disseminate research findings using appropriate media
Educational Qualifications:
  • PhD or Masters Degree in relevant field
Working Experience:

PhD degree holder:
  • Publications in one’s area of specialization and professional qualification relevant to subject area will be an added advantage.
Masters Degree holder:
  • At least five years teaching experience at University level, and
  • At least three publications in reputable journals or two University level books
Technical Skills/Competencies:
  • Strategic mindset and ability to put emerging issues in the context of the University mission, vision and strategy
  • Ability to conceptualize, design, develop structured, and undertake structured evaluation and review of projects and programme
  • Good report and proposal writing and public speaking/presentation skills
  • Effective initiative facilitation and team leadership skills
  • Structured problem solving
  • Ability to continuously monitor and acquire knowledge/market intelligence on relevant industry trends and developments
  • Good leadership, coordination, planning and organizational skills
  • Proactive, initiative, with good networking, negotiation and collaborative skills
  • IT proficiency.
2. Assistant Registrar

Overall Purpose of the position

To manage and coordinate the academic processes, particularly examination process so that all students are able to give their best and do as well in their exams as they are able as per university policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with the academic team, collating examination data and managing this via a timetabling software package and databases to produce exam timetables.
  • Track the submission and quality of exam papers ensuring the University regulations and procedures are adhered to. Recording all errors on question papers for reporting/analysis purposes.
  • Provide advice to administrative and academic staff on examination issues managing all requirements for ‘out of time’ examinations. This includes room bookings, posting the details on the Examinations and Conferment website, liaison with Estates and Document Services, ensuring adequate invigilator cover is in place
  • Set up examinations rooms during the main exam periods with the relevant paperwork.
  • Maintain examination reference material ensuring that stocks are available for each examination period as required by the examiners
  • Assist with the organization of the award ceremonies e.g. invitation and acceptance of students, preparation of certificates, proof reading awards programme
  • Participate in ceremony requests from students and guests for additional requirements and manage individuals on the day of the ceremony
  • Supervise and appraise staff in the section.
  • Manage collection, calculation/processing and verification of students' grades.
  • Update students’ files as per approved policy and procedures.
  • Preparing reports as required including students and lecturers’ evaluation reports.
  • Participate in budget preparation
  • Ensure safe custody of students' records and other information.
  • Liaise with academic advisors on changes in academic programmes.
Technical Skills/Competencies:
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  • Ability to deal with student crisis and emergencies in an authoritative manner
  • Ability to manage information
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Knowledge of common records management
  • Interpersonal skills, working with individuals and groups
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Integrity.
  • IT Proficiency
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You may apply by emailing your application letter and CV, including current and expected remuneration to recruitment@iu.ac.ke by 24 February 2012.

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We are causing this melt. There is just no going around it. If data and graphs and scientific research don't quite bring the point home, how about a really, really, really big piece of art?

The Melting Vitruvian Man

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I've talked to a lot of people about this piece of art by John Quigley - and heard just as many interpretation of what the message is.

This is what John Quigley had to say about it: "We came here to create the ‘Melting Vitruvian Man’, after Da Vinci's famous sketch of the human body, because climate change is literally eating into the body of our civilisation. When he did this sketch it was the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, the dawn of this innovative age that continues to this day, but our use of fossil fuels is threatening that."

For me, it's simply a really, really, really big metaphor for the impact humans have on the climate in general, and the sea ice in particular.

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Greenpeace statement on the Guimaras oil spill incident

Press release | August 15, 2006 at 6:00

The Philippine government must hold Petron and its partners accountable for damages to marine and coastal ecosystems and for their rehabilitation. The scale of this oil spill may turn to be even larger than the Semirara oil spill last year and...

Defend our oceans

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There’s more to the sea than the endless stretch of blue water. This vast global ocean pulses around our world driving the natural forces which maintain life on our planet. And beneath the waves, the ocean is also pulsing with life—a staggering...

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Petron: Ooops...we did it again...

Feature story | November 21, 2006 at 7:00

They say that ‘lightning never strikes twice in the same place,’ but such may be an understatement in the case of Petron.

Greenpeace ship M/Y Esperanza to carry relief goods to Mindanao

Press release | December 8, 2012 at 11:31

The Greenpeace ship M/Y Esperanza is leaving the port of Manila today to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Mindanao.

Ocean Defender Tour starts in one of the country’s oldest marine sanctuaries

Press release | July 9, 2013 at 12:08

Apo Island, Dauin, Negros Oriental – The largest ship in the Greenpeace fleet, Esperanza, arrived today in Apo Island, home to one of the country’s oldest community-managed marine reserves, to mark the start of its three week journey from the...

Petron: Stop the Spill!

Page | October 19, 2006 at 17:00

Last August, Greenpeace bore witness to a massive environmental disaster in Guimaras Strait.

Devastation at ground zero

Feature story | August 20, 2006 at 6:00

Scientists and environmental activists onboard the Esperanza today bear witness to the site of the Petron oil spill in order to document environmental impacts of the oil slick in the Guimaras Strait of the central Philippines.

Petron: Stop the spill!

Feature story | October 11, 2006 at 6:00

An unexpected surprise from the shores of Guimaras was brought to the doorsteps Petron corporation’s headquarters in Makati City. As Greenpeace activists delivered a container drum of spilt bunker fuel to highlight the company's irresponsible...

Philippines spill witnessed first hand

Feature story | August 22, 2006 at 6:00

It took Rodolfo Galuna only 15 days to build the small wooden boat he named "Rona". But now the 52-year-old fisherman has no use for it. Black, stinking oil sludge covers the boat’s hull, has crept into Galuna's back yard and quietly destroyed...

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