I usually leave the nuke stuff elsewhere, (or here – too many blogs?) but this post by Jeffrey Lewis, the Arms Control Wonk, seems relevant to the science policy discussions that go on here. Lewis is trying to critically examine the conventional wisdom, widely reported of late, that Japan is just six months away from …
A new paper by Wenju Cai and Tim Cowan at CSIRO in Victoria argues that anthropogenic climate change can explain some, but not all, of the marked decline in rainfall over the last half century in southwest Western Australia: “An ensemble result from 71 experiments reveals that anthropogenic forcing contributes to about 50% of the …
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I was on thin ice with the story the other day about John Coltrane’s mouthpiece. I mean, I think I really heard it, but I don’t have it tagged in my memory as to when or where, so when I wrote it I figured it was possible that it was either apocryphal or imagined. I …
Here’s a lazyweb word problem: John rides his bicycle to work, thus saving a half gallon (1.9 liters) of gasoline, consuming 700 calories in the process. If John replaces those calories by eating beef, what is the net reduction (increase?) in greenhouse gas emissions? If he gets the calories from soy protein? Etc? (Ideally, the …
Betsy Blaney is a reporter after my own heart. The theme is Texas drought. The story has numbers: The first 11 months of 2006 rank as the 31st driest January-through-November stretch since 1895. Average rainfall for that period was 23 inches, down from the normal of 26.02 inches, the National Weather Service said. Compounding the …
The AP’s Charles Hanely reports that a deal is near between the nine nations that share (or don’t share) the waters of the Nile: After three years of closed-door talks, nine nations are quietly edging toward a deal to jointly oversee the waters of the Nile, an agreement that has eluded lands along the great …
Peter Rice in the Albuquerque Tribune today today has an upate on the Albuquerque giant scissors phenomenon: For official ribbon cuttings, Kerby Moore had been borrowing a jumbo-sized pair of scissors from the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, but those events are becoming so frequent that she’s ordering her own.
Christmas Lights Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Happy Holidays from the Inkstain Family.
There’s a story I heard once about John Coltrane: that he spent his whole musical career looking for the right saxophone mouthpiece. He was searching for the sound he heard in his head. I was thinking of that Wednesday morning, curled up in the den reading as the snow fell outside. I’m in the midst …
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Albuquerque Transportation Center Originally uploaded by Malcolm Tredinnick. I never got around to blogging Malcolm’s visit to Albuquerque and other bits of our great land. It was lovely to finally meet face to face after years of one of those bit-driven relationships. He’s posted his pictures from his trip, and his caption on this one …