Sometimes, you read something on the web that just sounds so intriguing yet unlikely that you have to prove that it’s incorrect. From a discussion in Metafilter I ran into a site that claimed that all of the U.S.’s power needs could be met with a 50 square mile solar array in Texas. Just on [...]

Duloxetine, Lilly, and Suicide This is a story that is going to get bigger: Gregg Easterbrook rails against Lilly[1] in the New Republic, claiming that they have led to the death of a healthy 19-year-old student in Indiana. He makes some salient points, but is probably over the line, especially by his last few paragraphs [...]