The question of hurricanes and their relationship to climate change (“global warming”) has come up a few times recently, so I’m making a few notes here: “Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years”:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nature03906.html, (abstract) from Nature. “The links between hurricanes and climate change”:http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_warming/page.cfm?pageID=1529, from the Union of Concerned Scientists. It certainly looks [...]
Posted by Chris in Environment on August 31st, 2005 | Comments Off
It has to be correct! Everybody, now!
Posted by Deana in Music on August 25th, 2005 | 2 Comments »
It looks like the field of nanotubes in the 21st century is looking as fertile as that of plastics in the 20th. The latest breakthrough is “nanotube sheets”:http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8976160/, super-strong super-thin sheets with a whole list of promising applications. (Think “space elevator”:http://www.spaceelevator.com/, but that’s just one of them.)
Posted by Chris in Technology on August 25th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I’m surprised I haven’t mentioned the Greasecar before, but another project goes one louder: Greasebus. I like the idea of tooling around powered by other peoples’ waste products.
Posted by Chris in Environment on August 24th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
…at least according to “Pat Robertson”:http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/23/robertson.chavez.1534/index.html.
Posted by Chris in Religion on August 23rd, 2005 | 2 Comments »
