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 like the models of cyclone [...]
Posted by Chris in Environment on August 31st, 2005 | No Comments »
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 »
The New York Times’ Frank Rich has written a compelling opinion piece called The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan, with specific emphasis on the (hopefully continued) failure of the Bush administration to contain growing dissent against the occupation of Iraq.
Posted by Chris in Iraq, Politics on August 22nd, 2005 | 1 Comment »
To take my mind of the latest “depressing Shuttle news”:http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12424377.htm, I followed a Google Ad to the “Moon Landing Hoax”:http://www.moonmovie.com/ page. Since “they faked the moon landing” is a running joke at “the office”:http://evdb.com, I figured it would be worth a chuckle. Unfortunately, the assertions were so rhetorical and so easily debunked that it [...]
Posted by Chris in Space on August 19th, 2005 | 4 Comments »
I have no response to this.
(Realized this requires a log-in. To see it, put in YetiCat as username and meowmeow as password)
Posted by Deana in You have got to be kidding on August 19th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I can’t even make up something as ludicrous as “Kidsbeer”:http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nb20050806a1.htm. Of course, I was a big fan of bubble gum cigarettes as a kid, so I probably shouldn’t throw stones.
Posted by Chris in Oddly Enough on August 18th, 2005 | No Comments »
My current desktop background is a large, beautiful “photo of the ISS soaring over the Earth”:http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/multimedia/fd12_gallery.html, taken by the crew of Discovery. I love the photo, but one aspect of it bugs me: where is it? There are definitely enough landmarks to figure that out (a river, a bay, an atoll off the [...]
Posted by Chris in World on August 17th, 2005 | 2 Comments »
