Lab May Be Nuke Center Federal officials will unveil a proposal today to make Los Alamos National Laboratory the nation’s center for nuclear weapons plutonium research, consolidating work now done at other sites around the country. The proposal, to be unveiled at a news conference in Oak Ridge, Tenn., lays out a road map for …
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Seen on a University of New Mexico blackboard last night in an empty classroom. Kinda tough to read, so I’ll transcribe: Matthew – We thought maybe the zombies wouldn’t be able to chase us up the stairs. They’re smarter than we thought. If you find this, we’re headed for Atlanta. Send the kids our love. …
From my favorite Rocky Mountain rock-banger: I suppose I could have called a cab. But I’m a geologist. Cabs are for econ majors.
South African firm Sasol and Exxon Mobil were among a group of firms fined last week by the European Union for running a wax cartel, trying to control the global price of wax. Really. I am not making this up: “There is probably not a household or company in Europe that has not bought products …
I don’t think this is exactly what David Zetland has in mind when he argues for establishing water markets, but hey, whatever works! From the International Herald Tribune: In the world’s driest inhabited continent, there is simply not enough water to go around, and households, cities, industries and agriculture all demand their share from stressed …
Fascinating paper out this week in GRL on the “leap year bias” in temperature records: The addition of one extra day in February normally every fourth year produces a significant seasonal drift in the monthly values of that year in four major temperature datasets used in climate change analysis. The addition of a ‘leap year …
roadrunner Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Roadrunners are common in Albuquerque, but we don’t see them too often in our yard. This afternoon I was sitting out in the back eating lunch when I noticed this guy. He’d been there for a while before I spotted him, sitting absolutely still. They don’t seem to mind people …
Back in July, when the price of gasoline was screaming upwards, people would regularly quote the highest price they saw on a pump. They were noticing not any sort of average, but the high side outlier. Lately, I hear people doing the opposite – the lowest price they see anywhere.
Today’s energy tip: low-flow shower heads and shorter showers. Yes, it’s an energy tip, not a water tip.