By Susan Derrechio, October 23, 2013
What is the meaning of life? The answer is worth $24,953, at least according to the National Endowment for the Humanities, a taxpayer-funded federal agency that is providing an educational grant to study the question. "What is the good life and how do I live it?" Well, for $25,000 in tax dollars, NEH has tasked someone with finding out.
The NEH and
its grant program are the subject of a letter released Thursday by the Senate
Finance Committee's top Republican, Sen. Jeff
Sessions, of Alabama, who wants further scrutiny of the program….ToRead More….
$50K Fed Study Will View and Collect Poppy-Visiting Insects
Melanie Hunter, October 23, 2013
$50K Fed Study Will View and Collect Poppy-Visiting Insects
The Interior Department is planning to spend $50,000 over a five-year period to study the dwarf bear-claw poppy, a federally listed endangered plant that grows in Washington County, Utah. m - See more at:
$1Billion/Day To Prevent Global Warming As Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Record High
October 23, 2013 By Barbara Hollingsworth
Governments and private entities throughout the world spent $359 billion last year – or nearly $1 billion per day – to prevent global warming even though the Earth’s temperature has remained virtually flat for the past 17 years. But even $1 billion a day is apparently not enough, according to the Climate Policy Initiative’s (CPI) “Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2013” report released Tuesday, exactly one month after NASA researchers recorded a new recordfor sea ice in the Antarctic.- See more at:
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