stuff I wrote elsewhere: You will see them most any evening these days in Chris Witt’s Albuquerque backyard: the darting, diving, buzzing hummingbird and the aloof nighthawk, feasting on insects in the dim distance. If you were building the bird family tree, you would have no reason to think the two were close kin. But …
Sunday’s ride with the fixie boys was a particularly amusing one: View Larger Map There in the middle you can see that we sorted out some nice shortcuts through the airport, and at the southern end some fascinating dirt road wanderings around the new Mesa del Sol development. Bonus points to Andrew for helping us …
Last week, Lissa heard a sound in our chimney. Faint flapping. A bird had somehow become stuck. For days, she tried figure out how to free it, tortured by its grim fate. She tried using a broom to shoo it down into the living room, banishing Sadie so she wouldn’t eat the poor creature if …
The Financial Times is reporting pressure at the G8 meeting from what the British call “campaigners” for the West to restrict its production of biofuels because of the effect it’s having on on food supplies: ActionAid, a charity, blamed G8 countries in a report for what it said was a halving of agricultural aid since …
The Economist Food Price Index is at 280.6, up 11.3 percent on the month and a frankly astonishing 66.2 percent over the last year. Elasticity in this case is a measure of people going hungry, I think.
In which I discuss the perennial question: Has the Monsoon Started? print video
Troopin’ on over with the cool kids to identi.ca – kinda like Twitter, but with open source cool.
Happy 61st anniversary of nothing terribly interesting happening down in the deserts of southeastern New Mexico, and let me take this opportunity to reprise one of my all time greatest hits: Roswell Myths Crash Into Reality: In conventional historical research or journalistic exposé, says Brandeis University anthropologist Benson Saler, successive investigations fill in details and …
If you think oil’s going to hit $300 a barrel, there’s apparently money to be made. And someone thinks that is a real possibility: Nymex statistics show that investors for the first time placed a small bet this week that West Texas Intermediate oil futures would hit $300 a barrel – more than double yesterday’s …
The folks at the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre have a paper in the June 17 EOS (sorry, couldn’t find it on line) about their use of web traffic spikes to quickly locate and learn about earthquakes. Swarms of web users quickly turn to the web after a quake, they write, and the location information gleaned from …