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46-year government career so he can protest the government. he is the nasa climate scientist who in 1988, after more than a decade of evidence gathering, declared that nasa was quote 99% certain that the global warming trend was not a natural variation. in other words, human induced global warming had begun, but -- moonlighted as an activist. hansen said you cant testify against the government. he was arrested outside the white house in 2010 calling for a ban on mountain top removal. we recently...

The debate over same-sex marriage may have taken on a life of its own on facebook, prompting 2.7 million people to change their profile photo this is week, facebook says it had a 120% bump in new profile pictures tuesday compared to last week and says data shows much of that is because of the supreme court cases. supporters of same-sex marriage especially in the dark red areas that you see here were putting up the human rights campaigns red equal signs or a variation of it. t-mobile is making ...

Program to help them further their education once they pass high school. and they would like to pursue a higher education. also we are trying to revise and, you know, make revisions to the stand your ground law. and also -- were also working on a trayvon martin amendment. and what that amendment says is that you cannot be the aggressor. you cannot chase somebody, follow them, pursue them, shoot and kill them and say you were standing your ground. >> why is it important to you, tracy, the foundat...

About half a snickers bar now. subway sandwich. subway was the hero of our test. >> so to speak? >> only one that came in under what they said they h supposed to have 360 calories had 350. subway when i spoke to the company. they are the only company who tested the same way we tested. subway takes this seriously. >> how expensive is it to test? >> its expensive its in-depth and to test the right way it requires a lot of resources. but these requirements are only placed on restaurants with more t...

In part because the practical minimum wage was stagnant for so long during the 80s zmints in 2000s. what happens states start acting and increase minimum wage. not the best way to set the policy. a decade before increasing it. then having all of this variation driven really by politics and not by what makes economic sense. but it is good for us geeks because we actually get to use variation across the different areas to really study the effect of the minimum wages. it is starting in the early 90...

Minimum wage works is one of the basic, you know, u just draw a supply and demand curve and you think about the cost of labor and if you apply it in other places, right, if the government mandated that you had to sell a loaf of bread for over $5, what we would see is a shortage in bread. there would be less bread being sold because you couldnt -- because it would be more expensive. households would consume less of it. that story was just applied for many years for minimum wage. this is a simple ...

Looking really close by to each other or the treatment group and control group using that terminology, likely to be similar. but it is a single case and that criticism was made at the same time and theres other literature that says okay, lets use all the -- variation and in minimum wages but then you end up doing things like comparing new jersey with texas. and thats not necessarily a good idea. what we did, in our work is to sort of take the -- advantages of both of these methods by a, pooling ...

Okay. so its friday, but we are not doing an official cocktail moment tonight. however, if one was going to put together a little something special to get ready for our final story tonight, i realize now that it might be helpful to know in advance that our final story tonight pays homage to the honey badger. so this isnt a cocktail moment, but i feel duty-bound to tell you that there is a variation on the whiskey sour that is made with honey thats really good. its called the gold rush. this is w...

Raining, on wednesday. >>gretchen: i was excited. lets not think about what can happen after that. maybe somebody doesnt want to think about an interview that happened last night and that would be lance armstrong. the guy in charge of the u.s. antidoping agency, this was a compelling interview on "60 minutes" last night. i could not turn away from watching it. this gentleman here has kind of put his life on the line, so to speak, in investigating lance armstrong and says that interview he did wi...

And successful doping program that support hport had ever see. that was one of his conclusions that armstrong denied in his interview last week. >> armstrong admitted to doping through out his 7 tour defrance victories. he tried to make a comeback in 20079. he sad mitted the first 7 but the last two races in 09 and 2010 he said he did not dope. he was racing clean. >> contrary to the evidence. the evidence is clear. his blood tests in 2009, 2010 expert reports based on the variation of his blood...