Global Warming Battle Is Now About Market Share — Not...
Last week, the New York Times reported that venerable Dow Jones Industrial Average component Coca-Cola Co. was awakening to the impact of...
Saturn, From High Above & Behind
Click for a larger photo. Source: Slate Saturn, From Far Behind Click for a larger photo. Source: Slate
Hurricane Tracker
While we are enjoying spectacular weather this weekend (I am on the beach as this is set to launch), Gulf Coast residents are dealing...
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007,...
Manhattanhenge
Those of you in Manhattan today should check out "Manhattanhenge" at 8:23pm: Wikipedia: Manhattanhenge (sometimes referred to...
Quote of the Day: Knowledge, Science, Enlightenment
For those of us who dwell in that hypothetical construct known as reality, the following E.L. Doctorow keynote address — critical...
Iowa Floodwaters
Insane photos of Iowa flooding from Boston Globe’s new blog, which they somehow cleverly named "The Big Picture"...
Active Denial System: non-lethal, directed-energy weapon
Fascinating report on the Pentagon’s Active Denial System, a/k/a the Pentagon Ray-gun: Quick excerpt: What if we told you the...
Reconciling Cold Weather and a Warming Climate
Yesterday, I criticized those who made the claim that ““Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of...