Think Tank LA
Think Tank L.A. is a slow-boil chronicling of the goings-on at policy centers, research institutions, and the like in and around the Southland – and beyond. The blog covers the tanks themselves, the people who work at them, and the big ideas so often born at tanks. It's written by Jeremy Rosenberg.
Thank you to everyone who during these past two years has read, commented upon, and shared this blog.
RAND is out with a study that's critical of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and a Louisiana Recovery Authority for failing to successfully help people living in FEMA trailers.
"Of course one of the biggest and most important signals for SoCal is the El Niño. Our climate is changing. This paper is another nail in the "intellectual" coffin of the climate change skeptics."
Brett Van Ort has photographed, at some personal peril, mines and minefields from a recent Balkan war. The resulting images are indelible examples of the incongruously beautiful landscapes of death.
The oceanic phenomenon known as, "El Niño" has apparently moved from the eastern equatorial to the central equatorial area of the Pacific Ocean. Why does this matter?
Milken Institute's Ross DeVol's research shows that the U.S. economy -- like so many folks in Hollywood -- is already in recovery.
Thirty-six minutes in 1911. An hour by 1954. "With virtually no auto grade crossing in 1910, the streetcars made incredible time," says Josef K. Lesser, head of the Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation.
The current issue of the New Yorker features a long profile by Jane Mayer of David H. and Charles Koch, billionaire sibling oil refinery magnates who the piece says are benefactors -- if not progenitors -- of various libertarian think tanks.
Oliver Hess on his and Jenna Didier's idea for a system of tethered dirigibles that would serve as local public transportation -- and look like the sky.
When Ron Milam ran the LA County Bicycle Coalition years ago, his position could seem lonely. Now, the pedaling advocate writes about the 300 or so people who participated in a recent Bike Summit.
UCLA's civic treasure, the CHIS project at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, put out this week new calculations about the number of Golden State residents residents lacking health insurance.
Krishna Kumar, RAND's senior economist, lectures, free-of-charge, this evening in Santa Monica about, "Mumbai Rising? The Implications of India's Economic Rise for the United States"
The libertarian think tank's policy analyst finds a "silver lining" in the Bell salary malfeasance.
Would you believe, 1,850 gallons for the oil, and 100 gallons for the melon? The Pacific Institute's Circle of Blue publication reports from Kern County.
Nice photos of L.A.'s hidden-in-plain-site potential improved public spaces, and a look back at USC's incredible back alley census.
The El Segundo-based company does research and other consulting for the Pentagon and NASA. Might they start adding other clients? Isn't that the path RAND once followed?
Authors from the RAND Corporation are out this week with a new paperbook book titled, United States and Mexico: Ties That Bind, Issues That Divide.
Who says jobs are extinct. The Natural History Museum is looking again for a puppeteer. If you can carry 73-pounds, crawl, and channel a pre-historic beast, this might just be the perfect gig for you.
Google Sky not enough for you? Check out the remarkably detailed panoramic image of the surface of the red planet, Earth's neighbor, on this site.
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