There’s a fascinating meme echoing around the Internet in recent days suggesting Al Gore said something idiotic. The source is a NewsMax story about a talk Al Gore apparently gave last week at the United Nations. The NewsMax article suggests Gore claimed that ” Cigarette smoking is a ‘significant’ contributor to global warming”. It’s obviously …
reading: Famine. A symposium dealing with Nutrition and relief operations in times of disaster, the proceedings of a 1970 meeting on the issue. I’m trying to understand what actually happens to humans, both physiologically and culturally, in famine-causing drought. reading 2: I was fascinated by the whole Hugo Chavez-Chomsky thing, and I’d not read Hegemony …
Some months ago, I published on this blog the plans for making an atom bomb. It seems only reasonable now to link to some tips on how to dismantle one. (Hat tip Incubator Mouse.)
Drought is a real problem. But this just pisses me off: Each night before going to bed, cattle rancher Barrett Broadie prays for rain. More such prayers follow on Sunday mornings, when he and his neighbors meet for church services in Ashland, a town of about 1,000 in southwestern Kansas. It’s been eight years since …
An Albuquerque guy, number one on Google for bomb making instructions. Let’s help keep it that way!
Yesterday afternoon, Chris Mooney swung through town on a book tour visit, including a talk radio appearance. Today comes news that KAGM is being shut down, replaced with an all-Spanish music format of some kind. It would be a mistake, of course, to confuse correlation with causation.
I go out for lunch, and within an hour there’s a picture of my pasta posted for the world to see.
Fears of a drought in Australia are pushing up wheat prices: Wheat prices in Chicago rose to a nine-year high on speculation that drought will cut production by as much as half in Australia, the third-largest exporter of the grain behind the U.S. and Canada.
My colleague Amy Miller had a hilarious (infuriating?) story in Saturday’s paper about young Zac Cornfield, a first-grader at Montezuma Elementary School who was not allowed to attend school with spiked blue hair. Zac said he doesn’t understand what all the fuss was about. He only wanted to look like the punk rockers he idolizes. …
A newly issued NASA news media policy: Effective Oct. 1, 2006, all news media entering the access controlled area of the NASA headquarters building in Washington must be escorted. News media accredited by the Office of Public Affairs and issued a media badge do not need to sign in at the visitor’s desk, but they …