Nuclear Waste and the Columbia River

by Larry Shultz | Jan 20, 2024 | Biodiversity, Biophysical Economics, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Energy, Science

Book review: Atomic Days. The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse (energyskeptic.com) Will Congress ever create a new independent agency to store nuclear waste permanently? | Peak Everything, Overshoot, &...

Electric Car Total Lifetime Cost Plus ICE and Hybrids by US City

by Larry Shultz | Jan 19, 2024 | Biophysical Economics, Cities, Climate, Energy

Electric and gasoline vehicle total cost of ownership across US cities – Woody – Journal of Industrial Ecology – Wiley Online Library Note that plug in Hybrids were not studied.  Nore also that social and environmental costs, so called...

Quality of Life, Cities and Metro Areas NBER

by Larry Shultz | Jan 19, 2024 | Cities, Climate, Real Estate

Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality-of-Life Estimates across Cities (nber.org)

Economic Botany and the Biodiversity of Human Utilized Plants

by Larry Shultz | Jan 19, 2024 | Biodiversity, Biophysical Economics, Botany, Ethnobotany, Physical Geography

The global distribution of plants used by humans (science.org)

Arts Towns and Cities

by Larry Shultz | Jan 13, 2024 | Cities, Uncategorized

Top 40 List of Most Arts-Vibrant Cities in the United States – DataArts (culturaldata.org)

Science and Awe

by Larry Shultz | Jan 11, 2024 | Biology, Botany, E O Wilson, Ecology, Education, Evolution, Landscape Photography, Physical Geography, Scale, Science

Wonder at work: the joy of discovery helps scientists flourish (nature.com)

The 6th Great Extinction, in the Shadow of Homo

by Larry Shultz | Jan 5, 2024 | Biodiversity, Ecology, Scale

Peter Brannen: “Deep Time, Mass Extinctions, and Today” | The Great Simplification

Texas Hill Country, Botany, Slavery, and German Heritage

by Larry Shultz | Jan 4, 2024 | Botany, Democracy, Education, Physical Geography

Texas Hill Country – Wikipedia About the American Botanical Council – American Botanical Council (herbalgram.org) Ferdinand Lindheimer – Wikipedia If you happen to visit New Braunfels, which is southwest of Austin, go to Gruene. Gruene, New...

Topology of Neuron Networks: the Patterns of Logarithms, Musical Rhythms, Patterns

by Larry Shultz | Jan 3, 2024 | Scale, Science

Neurons in The Brain Appear to Follow a Distinct Mathematical Pattern : ScienceAlert

Liberal Education: It’s Aim and Scope

by Larry Shultz | Jan 3, 2024 | Democracy

The Conservative Purpose of a Liberal Education ~ The Imaginative Conservative