Charlie Rose's Tuesday, August 10, 2010 conversation with Eric Pooley

CHARLIE ROSE: We continue our series of summer conversations about
the challenges facing President Obama in an assessment of what he has been
done, has done and his administration has done. We want now to talk about
the environment and climate change.

Joining me is Eric Pooley, deputy editor of "Bloomberg Businessweek"
magazine. His new book is called "The Climate War -- True Believers, Power
Brokers, and the Fight to save the Earth." I am pleased to have him back
on this program. Welcome.

You can view the full show, episode, interview here. And you can read the full transcript here.

The Colbert Report - August 10, 2010 - Akhil Amar, Dylan Ratigan

752 August 10 None Akhil Amar, Dylan Ratigan "Van Halen will release a new album with David Lee Roth. At their age, 'Hot for Teacher' is now creepy from the other side. This is The Colbert Report." 6100

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NYT: Book Review for 8/06/2010 from NYT Book Review

This week, a conversation with author Jonathan Weiner on the science of immortality; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Times dining critic Sam Sifton tells us about four endangered wild fish; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.

Listen to the show here. Download the show here.

Space exploration: To infinity and beyond from The Economist: Full print edition Showing man worlds he had never seen

IN THE summer of 1977 two American spacecraft were launched on what is arguably the grandest mission ever: the exploration of the outer planets of the solar system and the space that lies beyond. More than three decades later, they have become the farthest man-made objects from Earth, reaching out in the darkness to overtake earlier missions to oblivion. The Voyager spacecraft have not only clocked up a far better understanding of the outer planets, they also illustrate mankind’s third great age of discovery, according to Stephen Pyne in a fascinating new book. ...

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Is Justin Bieber really old enough for a biography? from Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk by Dorian Lynskey

The teen sensation is set to publish his first memoir and be the subject of a biopic. Is it really the right time? As if Justin Bieber's supernova status were not already bewildering enough for anyone past the age of majority, the baby-faced Canadian singer, who looks even younger than his 16 years, has just announced his first memoir, First Step 2 Forever: My Story, via HarperCollins. He may not be the youngest celebrity to write an autobiography – Drew Barrymore and Charlotte Church were both 15 when they published, respectively, 1990's Little Girl Lost and 2001's Voice of an Angel: My Life (So Far) – but he is the only one who can also boast a forthcoming 3D biopic (apparently helmed by the Oscar-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth, no less) about his prodigious rise.

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The Colbert Report - August 5, 2010 - Savion Glover

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The Colbert Report - August 4, 2010 - Michael Posner

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The Colbert Report - August 3, 2010 - Laura Ingraham

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Sustainable economics, temperatures and cities from Portland Architecture: OHSU Receives $40 Million Gift by Brian Libby

Numerous national outlets have also taken note of a new book by Stan Cox called Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer). In a Q&A with the National Post of Canada, Cox says air conditioning has shaped U.S. presidential politics, shifted populations, altered our sex lives and thickened our waistlines.

Cox is on to something. Between 1993 and 2005 our use of electricity [in the U.S.] for cooling residences and retail space doubled over that period and that, over that same period, more or less, we doubled our use of petroleum energy used in cooling automobiles. The mass migration that has occurred in America to Sun Belt states has been part of that phenomenon. One needs air conditioning in Las Vegas, I’d approximate, about 25 hours a day, 375 days a year. Phoenix slightly more still.

Cox isn’t suggesting we get rid of air conditioning altogether. “Focus on people cooling rather than building cooling,” he tells the Post. “An example would be going back to the single room air conditioner. Have it in one room of the house and if things get too bad, turn it on and cool the room. Rather than, imagine our current scenario, say, in the American Sunbelt, where a husband and wife get up in a 3,000 square foot air-conditioned house, get into two air-conditioned cars and commute to an office block that has been sitting there, getting cooled all night in preparation for the workday. Meanwhile, back home, that 24,000 cubic feet is being cooled with nobody in the house.”

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The Colbert Report - August 2, 2010 - Jimmy Cliff

748 August 2 None Jimmy Cliff "Newsweek has been sold to an investor for one dollar. Idiot, you can read it online for free. This is The Colbert Report." 6096

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