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Update: See the end of the post for clarifications and new information from the communications coordinator for the Alaska Department of Natural Resources. With record-breaking temperatures across Alaska showing no signs of abating, wildfires like the ones seen in the image above from NASA's Terra satellite may well be a common sight coming weeks. Here’s a snippet from the National Weather Service forecast discussion for the Fairbanks area: …REGARDLESS OF WHICH MODEL IS FOLLOWED...ALL

The Windy City ThunderBolts are proud to announce that they will retire the jersey numbers of long time field staff member #1 Mike "Kash" Kashirsky and current Chicago White Sox starter #23 Dylan Axelrod. Both numbers will be retired at Standard Bank Stadium in a ceremony on Thursday, June 27th before the ThunderBolts take on the Normal CornBelters.

On Tuesday, June 25th, the Florence Freedom will welcome a lot more than the Washington Wild Things to town for the first of a three game series.

Congress needs to reauthorize the federal gas tax and decide how to spend federal surface transportation dollars in 2014. Unfortunately, argues Cato’s Randal O’Toole, too much spending in the past has gone to obsolete transportation technologies. Author Scott Beyer argues that the federal government’s role in funding infrastructure has stripped both money and decision-making power from localities, particularly major cities. Emily Goff, of the Heritage Foundation, will present ways reauthorization... Читать дальше...

The Social Security disability program has seen a significant increase in costs and enrollment in recent years. The Trustees project that the program will be insolvent as early as 2016. This recent growth and the program’s looming insolvency have brought it increased attention and added urgency to calls for solutions. Cato senior fellow Jagadeesh Gokhale, Social Security Administration chief actuary Stephen Goss and leading scholars David Autor from MIT and Harold Pollack from the University of Chicago... Читать дальше...

Writing this post on the iPad, in the WordPress app, so god knows how it’ll format. It’s been a while. Also it’s a lovely sunny…

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The three best things Fast Company‘s Web producer found on the Internet (and elsewhere) this week.

Angry Nerd loves superheroes, but hates RETCONs. He's especially miffed at what Marvel has done to Wolverine's origin story. Find out why Angry Nerd thinks those metallic, foot-long bone claws are not only implausible, but unforgivable.

Angry Nerd loves superheroes, but hates RETCONs. He's especially miffed at what Marvel has done to Wolverine's origin story. Find out why Angry Nerd thinks those metallic, foot-long bone claws are not only implausible, but unforgivable.

I was out in the prairie northeast of Denver today with researchers from the National Severe Storms Laboratory using a drone aircraft to observe developing thunderstorms when we got the news: A tornado had touched at Denver International Airport, about 50 miles to the south of us. Interestingly, we got the news from Twitter — and that's where this awesome picture of the twister, which touched down briefly and harmed no one, turned up shortly thereafter: https://twitter.com/7Marshall/status