Vol. 43 No. 9, February - February 2012
Index
- Goodnight moonshot: turning the lights out on a government-aggrandizing metaphor.
- Amending the 10th Amendment.
- Get a job!(Letters) (Letter to the editor)
- reason news.
- A policy of lying: why does the most open and transparent administration in history lie about government records?
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Dessert in the desert: food policy myth.
- Loko notion: five drinks in one.
- A farm and a leg: ag subsidies forever.
- Cyber peace: the online war that isn't.
- Ewww politics: disgust and ideology.
- Loud and proud: pump up the volume, legally?
- Quotes.
- Bone of contention: marrow match money.
- Cheese, Danish: fat tax in Denmark.
- Sex markets.
- Before he deployed to Iraq with his National Guard unit, Mark Grapin promised to build his children a tree house in their backyard.
- In Arizona, Gilbert High School Principal J. Charles Santa Cruz has barred cheerleaders from wearing T-shirts they bought to help raise money to fight breast cancer.
- India's information ministry has told broadcasters not to air sexy deodorant ads.
- Marshall Junior High School in Texas bars students from having "designs shaved into their hair.".
- Pennsylvania's child abuse registry contains more than 112,000 names.
- POTUS pot poll: Obama vs. the internet.
- Some teachers at Evergreen Park High School in Illinois have decided to limit students to just three visits to the restroom per semester.
- The Illinois fire marshal has ordered four stores in the Chicago area to remove novelty cigarette lighters.
- While Shane Boor was driving to work, he saw a Colorado State Trooper who had pulled another driver over.
- Zimbabwean police Sgt. Alois Mabhunu has been sentenced to 10 days in jail for using a toilet reserved for President Robert Mugabe at the International Trade Fair.
- (Still) getting off the ground.
- Deportation nation: not going home.
- Motel hell: asset forfeiture follies.
- Drug warrior defends dispensary crackdown.
- Phone frisking: warrantless searches.
- Skyscrapers as spaceships: the "rampant individualism" and surprising environmentalism of really tall buildings.
- For richer and for poorer: millionaires get poorer while the poor get richer. So what's all this talk about the income gap?
- A Twinkle of hope: Obama has moved space policy in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go.
- How much is an astronaut's life worth? NASA's irrational approach to risk undermines its mission and costs thousands of lives.
- Rocket men: meet the 21st-century pioneers who want to take you into space.
- Does Mars have rights? An ethical case for terraforming the Red Planet.
- Science fiction faces facts: NASA has fizzled, but Wernher von Braun's exuberant vision lives on.
- Neal Stephenson's action.
- A partial space science fiction reading list.
- Cancer cure crimes.
- The decline of violence: neuroscientist Steven Pinker on the triumph of peace and prosperity over death and destruction.
- Behind the music.
- The invisible economy.
- Terrible Nova.
- Steve Jobs, the inhumane humanist: the founder of Apple may have been a narcissistic jerk, but his humanity was revealed by the liberating objects he made.
- Space on Earth: a visit to a wooden hangar where the future is being born.
- Human Martians: the people who settle the Red Planet may not look like us.
- To boldly go where no wives or kids can follow.