Art Hobson, Physics, U Arkansas
Opinion articles in Northwest Arkansas Times, organized by date
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16 June 2013 A brief history of a glorious universe
26 May 2013 Our planet passes a climate benchmark
05 May 2013 Concerning chemical weapons in Syria
14 Apr 2013 America heads toward better days
24 Mar 2013 Nuclear weapons: our pressure tactics are not working
03 Mar 2013 Saving the Illinois River
10 Feb 2013 My journey to becoming an atheist
20 Jan 2013 Saving ourselves from the automobile
30 Dec 2012 Transportation and the urban fabric
09 Dec 2012 Pressuring Israel to do the right thing
18 Nov 2012 What's ailing America?
28 Oct 2012 Vote against the highway tax
07 Oct 2012 Iran, Israel, & the bomb
16 Sep 2012 The Higgs boson
26 Aug 2012 Ten reasons to vote against the tax for hwys
05 Aug 2012 Fossil fuels and the battle for the environment
15 Jul 2012 Global warming and economics 101
24 Jun 2012 Evidence of warming overwhelming
03 Jun 2012 NWA infrastructure: building wisely
13 May 2012 Climate wars and the merchants of doubt
22 Apr 2012 Our desperate quest for fossil fuels
01 Apr 2012 We are children of the universe
11 Mar 2012 For deterrence & NFZ, not war
19 Feb 2012 The NWA transportation story
29 Jan 2012 NWA Council & transit tax election
08 Jan 2012 What the world needs now: scientific literacy
18 Dec 2011 Who put the phosphorous into the Illinois River?
27 Nov 2011 Against widening I-540
06 Nov 2011 The accelerating universe
16 Oct 2011 Why is America no longer #1?
25 Sep 2011 America's oil burden
04 Sep 2011 Concerning your relatives
14 Aug 2011 Tax the rich, part 2
24 Jul 2011 Tax the rich, part 1
26 Jun 2011 Toward a humane transportation mix for NWA
05 Jun 2011 America is not number 1
15 May 2011 Possible energy futures, part 3
24 Apr 2011 Possible energy futures, part 2
03 Apr 2011 Possible energy futures, part 1
06 Mar 2011 The evidence for evolution
13 Feb 2011 The continuing saga of extraterrestrial life
23 Jan 2011 Supporting liberal ideals
02 Jan 2011 Israel needs tough love from US
12 Dec 2010 Paying for Arkansas roads
21 Nov 2010 Transportation crossroads for NW Arkansas
24 Oct 2010 Religious fundamentalism is unhealthy for modern nations
19 Sep 2010 A personal philosophy
22 Aug 2010 The Indus river: what global warming looks like
15 Aug 2010 Portland,OR: the way a city should be
18 Jul 2010 The spill: a disaster beyond reckoning
11 Jul 2010 Roads financing and Arkansas' car culture
06 Jun 2010 Our sick obsession with abortion
02 May 2010 James Hansen and the coming climate catastrophe
28 Mar 2010 On being a true friend to Israel
21 Feb 2010 Consequences of Fayetteville's football culture
17 Jan 2010 Fundamentalism vs biological reality
14 Dec 2009 Regressive state taxes
07 Nov 2009 Discovering our evolutionary roots (unpublished)
24 Oct 2009 Overpopulation and immigration spell trouble
10 Oct 2009 Fundamentalism and Modern Times
26 Sep 2009 Once again: whither Fayetteville High School?
12 Sep 2009 Smoking gun in the Arctic
29 Aug 2009 Religion in the US and other nations
15 Aug 2009 On the trail of life in the universe
01 Aug 2009 Global warming: lessons from ozone depletion
18 Jul 2009 Visioning rail transit in NWA
04 Jul 2009 Against another N College Avenue
20 Jun 2009 What about nuclear power?
06 Jun 2009 Dealing with Netanyahu and religious fundamentalists
23 May 2009 Parking and the future of Dickson Street
09 May 2009 America's car culture
25 Apr 2009 Will Fayetteville pay for poultry industry's pollution?
11 Apr 2009 Why big coal should agree to a moratorium
28 Mar 2009 Mass transit should lead RMA's agenda
14 Mar 2009 A crisis of capitalism
28 Feb 2009 The plausibility of global warming
14 Feb 2009 Narrowing the achievement gap at FHS
31 Jan 2009 Obama swings into action
17 Jan 2009 Failure in the Mideast
03 Jan 2009 A moratorium on coal plants
20 Dec 2008 Finding the opportunities in expensive gasoline and recession
06 Dec 2008 What's wrong with Islam?
22 Nov 2008 It's the economy, stupid
08 Nov 2008 Another coal plant for Arkansas?
25 Oct 2008 The science of evolution & myth of creationism
11 Oct 2008 Those missiles in Poland
27 Sep 2008 RMA and the new transportation age
13 Sep 2008 City and school elections
30 Aug 2008 Russia, NATO, & getting along together
16 Aug 2008 The coming environmental revolution
02 Aug 2008 Beltway madness
19 Jul 2008 The sustainability revoluton
05 Jul 2008 The arrogance of creationism
21 Jun 2008 Bicycling in Fayetteville
07 Jun 2008 America's energy non-policy
24 May 2008 Traffic calming
10 May 2008 Gasoline tax madness
26 Apr 2008 Earth Day 2008 - state of the planet
12 Apr 2008 Restrict HS & college student parking
29 Mar 2008 NWA - a sprawling wasteland
15 Mar 2008 Are we scientifically literate?
01 Mar 2008 In praise of reason
16 Feb 2008 Coal and our energy future
02 Feb 2008 FHS: The saga continues
19 Jan 2008 Arkansas energy resources: lignite
05 Jan 2008 Against immigration, for immigrants
22 Dec 2007 The real cost of gasoline
08 Dec 2007 Ark increases its global warming pollution
24 Nov 2007 Whither the Walton Arts Center
10 Nov 2007 Winning the climate race
27 Oct 2007 Particle accelerator goes boldly....
13 Oct 2007 Let's talk about religion
29 Sep 2007 Transportation and cowboy mythology
15 Sep 2007 For Fayetteville - vote Purcell
01 Sep 2007 Concerning our gods
18 Aug 2007 Northern Europe-traveler's delight
04 Aug 2007 The search for Earth-like planets
21 Jul 2007 Planet Earth today: imminent peril
07 Jul 2007 The immigration debate
23 Jun 2007 The future of Fayetteville HS
09 Jun 2007 Stuck in concrete
26 May 2007 How to kill a city
12 May 2007 Swepco's Texarkana coal plant
28 Apr 2007 What's wrong with America?
14 Apr 2007 A sustainability report card
31 Mar 2007 Do we really want a 3000 student HS?
17 Mar 2007 How to solve global warming
03 Mar 2007 The future of Mission Blvd
17 Feb 2007 Global warming: a dose of reality
03 Feb 2007 Whither Fayetteville High School?
20 Jan 2007 New coal plants: a looming catastrophe
06 Jan 2007 Quantum physics & human affairs
23 Dec 2006 Toronto & Detroit
09 Dec 2006 Ruskin Heights & 2025 Plan
25 Nov 2006 A green belt for Fayetteville
11 Nov 2006 Iraq: it's past time to leave
28 Oct 2006 How many Iraqi deaths?
14 Oct 2006 Time for action on global warming
30 Sep 2006 All aboard!
16 Sep 2006 Fundamentalism & Mideast wars
02 Sep 2006 Poultry industry vs. Oklahoma
19 Aug 2006 Terrorism and foreign policy
05 Aug 2006 A national high-speed rail system
22 Jul 2006 Our place in the universe
08 Jul 2006 A tale of two cities
24 Jun 2006 The problem with highways
10 Jun 2006 Another war?
27 May 2006 New developments in biological evolution
13 May 2006 An incompatible building
29 Apr 2006 America's dysfunctional immigration debate
15 Apr 2006 NWA's highway addiction, Part III
01 Apr 2006 NWA's highway addiction, Part II
18 Mar 2006 NWA's highway addiction, Part I
04 Mar 2006 Science and religion
18 Feb 2006 Global warming and oil
04 Feb 2006 The great sign ordinance debate
21 Jan 2006 The accelerating universe & scientific process
07 Jan 2006 NWA's transportation future
24 Dec 2005 In the balance: Leverett School
10 Dec 2005 A liberal's case for reduced immigration
26 Nov 2005 Small schools: good for kids, good for Fayetteville
12 Nov 2005 Questioning growth
29 Oct 2005 The great law of time
15 Oct 2005 Unintelligent designs
01 Oct 2005 Katrina: a largely preventable disaster
17 Sep 2005: Price of gasoline & limits to growth
03 Sep 2005: Sustainability, & the chicken industry
20 Aug 2005: Boycott Exxon
06 Aug 2005: Nuclear terrorism
23 Jul 2005: Grading the city's transportation proposal
09 Jul 2005: Highway to destruction
25 Jun 2005: The global warming story
11 Jun 2005: The ozone story
28 May 2005: Creationism
14 May 2005: A conversation with Robert Redford
30 Apr 2005: The big bang
16 Apr 2005: The end of the oil age
02 Apr 2005: Science & society: not paying our dues.
19 Mar 2005 The abortion debate
05 Mar 2005: The transit alternative
19 Feb 2005: Transportation crossroads for NWA
05 Feb 2005: Let's take the train!
22 Jan 2005: Downtown blight & Ark TIF law
08 Jan 2005 The roads proposal
25 Dec 2004: Star of wonder
11 Dec 2004: Against sales taxes for roads
27 Nov 2004: Where will we get our electricity? Part II
13 Nov 2004: Where will we get our electricity? Part I
30 Oct 2004: Ice sheets, Kyoto, global warming
16 Oct 2004: Rampant growth & dying rivers
02 Oct 2004: Abu Ghraib reprise
18 Sep 2004: Economics as if Earth mattered
04 Sep 2004: The wages of growth and sprawl
21 Aug 2004: Fundamentalism, modernity, & ...
07 Aug 2004: Calming Fayetteville's traffic
24 Jul 2004: Are we alone?
10 Jul 2004: Growth, annexation, & impact
26 Jun 2004: Tantamount to torture, Part II
12 Jun 2004: Tantamount to torture, Part I
29 May 2004: Schools & the heart of Fayetteville
15 May 2004: Iraq: time to stop digging
01 May 2004: New York, New York!
17 Apr 2004: Cars, cars, cars
03 Apr 2004: Ideology & the misuse of science
20 Mar 2004: Abrupt climate change & the president
06 Mar 2004: Phosphorus, rivers and rampant growth
16 Feb 2004: Materialism & modern physics
24 Jan 2004: Addressing global warming
10 Jan 2004: Paying for growth & roads
27 Dec 2003: Evolution update
13 Dec 2003: Reforming Arkansas Education
29 Nov 2003: A plan for downtown Fayetteville
15 Nov 2003: Freedom, technology & global warming
01 Nov 2003: Immigration & overpopulation
18 Oct 2003: Cars vs. transit
04 Oct 2003: Observations of Italy
20 Sep 2003: Stratospheric ozone
06 Sep 2003: Our incredible universe
23 Aug 2003: Oil & homeland security
09 Aug 2003: Rampant growth
26 Jul 2003: A zealous White House
12 Jul 2003: Missing WMD, & ideology
28 Jun 2003: NW Arkansas transportation
14 Jun 2003: Living in the city
31 May 2003: Paying our dues for the modern age
17 May 2003: The technology transition
03 May 2003: Nukes & N Korea
19 Apr 2003: Concerning growth
05 Apr 2003: And then there was light
22 Mar 2003: Phosphorus in streams
08 Mar 2003: Iraq and war
22 Feb 2003: Fayetteville transportation
08 Feb 2003: The sixth extinction
25 Jan 2003: Global warming
11 Jan 2003: History of the universe, Episode II
28 Dec 2002: Nuclear power, bombs, N Korea
14 Dec 2002: The bicycle
30 Nov 2002: Evolution
16 Nov 2002: Lessons from China
02 Nov 2002: Road kill
19 Oct 2002: SETI, and a message to Earth.
05 Oct 2002: Regional, national, global overpopulation
21 Sep 2002: "Transportation" isn't the same as "cars"
05 Sep 2002: More pay for teachers
22 Aug 2002: Energy, global warming, & nuclear power
08 Aug 2002: Growth & impacts
25 Jul 2002: A non-material world
11 Jul 2002: Los Angeles comes to NWA
27 Jun 2002: Science and fundamentalism
13 Jun 2002: Our common ground.
18 May 2002: Cars and taxes
18 Apr 2002: Our human-dominated planet

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