August 2010
1 post
I’ve been uploading some old photos to Flickr. The above is from Canada, 2006, and the below is from Tennessee, 2005.
January 2010
15 posts
WatchSuperFreakonomics: Geoengineering of Global Warming Fixes
“Maybe you’re afraid you don’t know enough about anything to trust...”
– Hypercritical - Ars Technica
“…there has been one terrorist incident per 11,569,297,667 [miles] flown....”
– FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror (via John Gruber)
LiveScience.com has an interesting series of short videos about time and the Universe:
Episode 1: On Human Time
Episode 2: On Earth Time
Episode 3: On Cosmic Time
Episode 4: On Deep Time - After Earth Ends
Episode 5: The End of Time - How the Universe Will Die
December 2009
14 posts
WatchHow Sure Are Scientists About Global Warming?
WatchGeoengineering Our Way Out of a Global Catastrophe
WatchFire and Ice: Permafrost Melt Spews Combustible Methane
“The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that “right” and...”
– Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong (via PZ Myers)
“By feeding birds, you could alter their evolutionary future, with changes...”
– Human Feeding Creates New Population of Birds | LiveScience
“… you’ll often see people arguing that since the planet’s...”
– Five things you should know about climate change
WatchMelting Trends: Arctic Ice Completely Gone by 2020?
“We are in an ice-melting phase of the Milankovitch cycle now, where the Earth’s...”
– An Astronomical Perspective on Climate Change | Universe Today
“Changes in theories are never overnight revolutions, nor do theories remain...”
– The complicated history of simple scientific facts
November 2009
4 posts
September 2009
1 post
“In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations....”
– William Safire’s speech for President Nixon, in the event that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became stranded on the moon.
June 2009
2 posts
The Airborne Toxic Event →
I must’ve listened to this album half a dozen times over the past couple of days. Fantastic stuff (thanks to twoeyes for the suggestion).
May 2009
2 posts
My final year project for Uni is due tomorrow. I just read this in the instructions for handing in the software (emphasis added):
The full Software Product must be handed in with the Final Report on a suitable magnetic medium, normally a CD.
This was apparently written by a computer scientist.
April 2009
2 posts
“It’s all too easy to say “the bacterium flagellum could not have...”
– Science IS imagination | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
March 2009
4 posts
“It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry,...”
– Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
February 2009
11 posts
WatchMaking Tea
