Articles Archive

CLIMATE CHANGE

Why did Copenhagen fail to deliver a climate deal? BBC News online, 22 December 2009.
The Physical Science behind Climate Change, W. Collins, R. Colamn, J. Haywood, M.R.Manning and P. Mote Scientific American Aug 2007, p. 64-73.
Abrupt Climate Change, R. Alley Scientific American, Nov 2004, p.62-69.
Climate Change: CO2 Arithmetic, W. Broecker Science, Vol. 315, March 9 2007, p. 1371 Related Link.

ENERGY

Biofuel: Major Net Energy Gain From Switchgrass-based Ethanol, Science Daily Jan 9 2008.
How Green Are Biofuels? Jörn P. W. Scharlemann and William F. Laurance, Science 4 January 2008: Vol. 319. no. 5859, pp. 43 - 44.
Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt J. Fargione et al. ScienceXpress 7 Feb 2008.
Supplementary materials J. Fargione et al. ScienceXpress 7 Feb 2008.
Use of Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land Use Changes T. Searchinger et al. ScienceXpress 7 Feb 2008.
Supplementary materials T. Searchinger et al. ScienceXpress 7 Feb 2008.
Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt J. Fargione et al. Science 7 Feb 2008.
Use of Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land Use Changes T. Searchinger et al. Science 7 Feb 2008.

FRONTEIRS OF BIOLOGY

Paul Davies "Are Aliens Among Us?" Scientific American Dec 2007.
Robin Marantz Henig "Darwin's God - A scientific exploration of how we came to believe in God" NYTimes 3/4/07.

THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE

The Land Institute library of peer reviewed scientific articles on perennial grain crops.

HUMAN POPULATION

Human population topics in the Laucks Foundation Reprint Mailings 144 (1997) - 145 (1997) - 146 (1998) - 147 (1998) - 148 (1998).

SOCIETY ETHICS AND POLITICS

SCIENCE POLICY: Science and the Next U.S. President Jeffrey Mervis Science 4 January 2008: 22.
CLINTON Eli Kintisch (4 January 2008) Science 319 (5859), 23.
EDWARDS AND GUILIANI Jocelyn Kaiser and Eliot Marshall Science 4 January 2008: 24-25.
HUCKABEE AND MCCAIN Jennifer Couzin and Constance Holden Science 4 January 2008: 26-27.
OBAMA AND RICHARDSON Yudhijit Bhattacharjee and Jeffrey Mervis Science 4 January 2008: 28-29.
ROMNEY AND THOMPSO Andrew Lawler,Eli Kintisch, and Benjamin Lester Science 4 January 2008: 30-31.

RELIGION AND SCIENCE

Darwin's God - A scientific exploration of how we came to believe in God Robin Marantz Henig, NY Times 3/07.
My Wizard F. Wilzcek Physics Today Jan 2008.

ECONOMICS

A Short History of Modern Finance, The Economist, Oct 16, 2008.
Infectious Exuberance, Robert J. Schiller, Atlantic Monthly July/August 2008.
The Remedist, Robert Skidelsky, NYT, December 12, 2008.
Dollar Shift: Chinese Pockets Filled as Americans' Emptied, NYT, Dec. 25, 2008 Accompanying graphs.
Risk Management, Joe Nocera, NYT, Jan 2 2009.
How the Finance Gurus Get Risk All Wrong Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb,Fortune, July 11, 2005.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Random House Publishing, April 2007.
Can Science Help Solve the Economic Crisis? By Mike Brown, Stuart Kauffman, Zoe-Vonna Palmrose and Lee Smolin, EDGE.
The Engine of Mayhem Robert Samuelson, Real Clear Politics, October 13, 2008.
The Panic of 2007 Gary Gorton, National Bureau of Economic Research , Working Paper.
Alan Greenspan Testimony on Sources of Financial Crisis, before the House Committee of Government Oversight and Reform, Oct 23, 2008.
Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation, NYT, October 23, 2008.

LAUCKS FOUNDATION REPRINTS 1979-1999 ARCHIVE

The Laucks Foundation published 149 reprint mailings from 1979 to 1999. The mailings were put together by Eulah Laucks until 1997 and sent out on an occassional basis as she found material. As she wrote on the front of each mailing, "The Laucks Foundation from time to time calls attention to published material that might contribute toward clarification or understanding of critical issues affecting world peace."

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