Will Deep-sea Mining Yield an Underwater Gold Rush?

Meghan Miner National Geographic
As long as the promise of riches await, more firms and governments will be looking to join the fray. "It's economics that drive things," says the University of Tasmania's Coffin. "Tech boundaries are being pushed, and science just comes along behind it and tries to understand what the consequences are. Ideally, it should be the other way around."

Fracking

Clay Bennett Chattanooga Times Free Press

Job Numbers Add To The Case Against Right-Wing Austerity

Isaiah J. Poole Campaign for America's Future
The fact that the economy created 157,000 jobs in January, and that there were significant upward revisions in previous months’ jobs reports, is no signal that we’re coming out of our nation’s jobs crisis.