Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
by Mike Mullane · 24 Jan 2006 · 506pp · 167,034 words
ducked my head into the bag. Pepe and Dave taped the skull on top of the restraint so it appeared our friend had a body. (Your tax dollars at work.) They silently floated the bag to the flight deck and maneuvered me behind John Casper, who was engaged at an instrument panel. When he turned
The Reluctant Spy
by John Kiriakou · 30 Jan 2009 · 188pp · 67,427 words
all over to ensure that our great success wasn’t a fluke. It wasn’t, but we both felt chastened and embarrassed by the experience. Your tax dollars at work, good citizens. If we bring this level of tradecraft to the operation to capture Abu Zubaydah, we may wind up the laughingstock of global intelligence
Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
by Steven Johnson · 14 Jul 2012 · 184pp · 53,625 words
. The chicken gun, it should be noted, is an exemplary case of government regulation. Those dead birds being shot out of a pneumatic cannon are Your Tax Dollars at Work. For the passengers flying on US Airways 1549, those tax dollars turned out to be very well spent. Because the first lucky break the plane
Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets
by David J. Leinweber · 31 Dec 2008 · 402pp · 110,972 words
maybe just possible that we mixed up some data. However, a closer look at decile returns, seen in Figure 2.15, shows otherwise. Language Technology: Your Tax Dollars at Work The U.S. government has been busy spending your money on technologies to do this kind of content extraction and analysis for years.When the
No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
by Harry Markopolos · 1 Mar 2010 · 431pp · 132,416 words
see if there is some way he’s smoothing earnings. I don’t even know if you can do that. I was wondering.” Once again, your tax dollars at work. Bachenheimer sent my submission to Simona Suh, an attorney on the enforcement staff. Suh had even less experience in this area than Bachenheimer; in fact
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · 17 Sep 2024 · 588pp · 160,825 words
Suleyman Follow the Money Divest and Protest Interview with Bill McKibben Corporations, Do Better With K. Corley Kenna Since Billionaires Exist Interview with Régine Clément Your Tax Dollars at Work Interview with Jigar Shah Culture Is the Context I Dream of Climate Rom-coms Interview with Franklin Leonard and Adam McKay The Planet Is the
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investing in generous public goods. It turns out justice is the antidote to the growth imperative—and key to solving the climate crisis. —Jason Hickel Your Tax Dollars at Work Interview with Jigar Shah The U.S. government has a long history of investing in emerging technology and startups, whether that’s airplanes, LED lights
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler · 29 May 2013 · 298pp · 84,394 words
, the way we’d always assumed the old one was, which drove my father crazy—like we were lab rats or something, under constant surveillance, your tax dollars at work, he’d say—and was probably the real reason they’d moved. As well as trying to figure out how to ask them for a
The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life
by Robert Wright · 1 Jan 1994 · 604pp · 161,455 words
government, like governments today, took conspicuous credit. In the Babylon of Hammurabi’s day, one canal was named “Hammurabi is the Prosperity of the People.” Your tax dollar at work. All of this bureaucratic accounting required standard units of measurement—a kind of information technology in their own right. One of the most widely found
Kiln People
by David Brin · 15 Jan 2002 · 625pp · 167,097 words
snarled for a while, forcing us to wend around an open pit construction site, marked by a broad holo sign: CITYWIDE ROXTRANSIT PNEUMATIC-TUBE PROJECT: YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK A glimmering animated display showed steady progress toward the day when clayfolk and other cargo would zip to every part of town via an extended
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright · 28 Dec 2010
government, like governments today, took conspicuous credit. In the Babylon of Hammurabi’s day, one canal was named “Hammurabi is the Prosperity of the People.” Your tax dollar at work. All of this bureaucratic accounting required standard units of measurement—a kind of information technology in their own right. One of the most widely found
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
by Scott Murray · 15 Mar 2013 · 186pp · 50,651 words