Every human decision brings with it unintended consequences. Often, they are inconsequential, even funny. When Airbus, for example, wanted to make its planes quieter to improve the flying experience for travelers, it made its A380 so quiet that passengers could hear, with far too much clarity, what was happening in the plane’s bathrooms. Other times…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ian Tartt The movie WALL-E starts with a bleak picture of the future: everyone left Earth centuries ago once the planet became uninhabitable due to being overrun with garbage. Humans now live on a space cruise ship called the Axiom. Taking the place of any sort of government is…
Governor Johnson’s “Carbon Fee” Proposal Had Some Merit, After All by Brett Linley Nothing will burn through your libertarian street-cred faster than proposing taxes. In reality, it doesn’t matter what kind of tax it is. The tax’s purpose doesn’t really matter, either. All that matters, when rubber hits the road, is that you want more…
By Ethan Barton A decades-long battle between federal environmental officials and a small Colorado town is about to end in the government’s favor, thanks to the agency-caused Gold King Mine spill disaster, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) representatives have focused intently on Silverton, Colorado since the mid-1990s, accumulating…
What started as a joke has turned into a highly demanded product in China– bottles of fresh Canadian air. The country has become so polluted that people began buying up the bottled air en mass. Canada’s Business News Network reports: Finally, a breath of fresh air in Canada’s doom-and-gloom resource sector. The world may have…