Reads for Thursday, 26 February 2015

Scarcity (The Reformed Broker) 

This Billionaire Governor Taxed the Rich and Increased the Minimum Wage -- Now, His State's Economy Is One of the Best in the Country (Huffington Post) 

Apple to hold event on March 9, as Watch launch nears (Reuters) 

Will Great Britain and Italy Say "Screw Nuclear" And Get Power From A Giant Concentrated Solar Plant Located In Tunisia's Sahara Desert? (The Ecologist) 

Watch How NASA Monitors Sand Flying From the Sahara to the Amazon (Time Magazine)

Study provides direct evidence that human activity is causing global warming: For the first time, researchers directly observed carbon dioxide trapping heat in the atmosphere (Salon) 

Four new NASA Earth-observing missions are collecting data from space – with a fifth newly in orbit – after the busiest year of NASA Earth science launches in more than a decade (NASA) 

Lawmakers Seek Information on Funding for Climate Change Critics (NY Times) 

Putin's Secret Plan For Ukraine Leaks (The Daily Beast) 

An Investor’s Guide to Better Writing — Seriously (Vitaliy Katsenelson) 

Link for the US Debt Clock also contains assets, poverty, social security recipients and more (US Debt Clock Website)