Although the Fukushima disaster put quite the damper on the growth of nuclear energy around the world, I still believe that nuclear power systems are going to be a crucial component in any future energy portfolio. And the White House seems to share this view. The Department of Energy has recently opened up $450 million [...]
Many of you have probably seen or heard of the KONY 2012 video that has been passed around on Facebook, Twitter, and other online websites. If you haven’t yet, watch the video here. Since it was released on YouTube this past Monday, the 30-minute video has gone viral. According to Associated Press, the video [...]
The opinions expressed by Caliber Magazine bloggers and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not reflect the opinions of Caliber Magazine or any affiliate thereof. My thoughts in this post were prompted by Griffin’s recent post on Robert Reich, a public policy professor of Berkeley. And I should clarify that I am [...]
The opinions expressed by Caliber Magazine bloggers and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not reflect the opinions of Caliber Magazine or any affiliate thereof. I know that Berkeley and I do not see eye-to-eye politically, and I decided after my first encounter with politics here that we agree to disagree. I [...]
One of my strongest opinions is that the ecological crisis is the most pressing issue of our time. This was my opinion when I was applying to college, and that opinion has only gotten more radical as I have spent my time in college immersed in the literature of contemporary energy engineering problems, the economic [...]
Wednesday, February 22nd, will mark the first day of Lent. Lent is about voluntarily learning about sacrifice. As a child I always resorted to sacrificing candy only to stuff my face with chocolate and jelly beans come Easter Sunday. While fasting is a part of Lent, it is not all it entails. Lent [...]
WHITNEY HOUSTON August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012 Dear Whitney Houston, Speaking on behalf of the world, you are a treasure. No, even that’s an understatement: you are a queen. You used raw emotion, experience, and soul to string along the perfect words to your melodies and easily convince pop listeners that [...]
The opinions expressed by Caliber Magazine bloggers and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not reflect the opinions of Caliber Magazine or any affiliate thereof. Socialism, communism, and anarchism are words which—outside of the liberal regions of the nations’ coasts and cities—invoke a strong reaction from the majority of American citizens, who tend [...]
The opinions expressed by Caliber Magazine bloggers and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not reflect the opinions of Caliber Magazine or any affiliate thereof. So, maybe you’ve heard on the news, but Oakland went a little wild on Saturday (January 28th). The plan of the day was for Occupy Oakland, the local [...]
So, Google recently integrated YouTube with Google+. This is a brilliant move, in the context of Google’s battle with Facebook over Internet space and revenue. Now, I do not follow the doings and plans of the various tech giants all too closely, but you don’t really need to in order [...]
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