If you’re in Albuquerque, you can catch me on the radio this afternoon at 2, talking with Kim Johnson and Dave Thomas of New Mexicans for Science and Reason. We’ll be talking about science journalism. Or something. I’m not sure exactly what, but I trust Kim and Dave to ask some sort of useful questions.
Alex Witze has an excellent news piece in Nature this week summing up the back-and-forth on the hurricane-global warming link. It shows the debate leaning in the direction of those arguing for a link, but also suggests how currently unsettled the issue is, and why. I think she gets it just about right. Over in …
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The cave paintings of Chauvet-Pont-D’Arc captivate me. Our ancestors were making art in depths of the last ice age, long before they domesticated food. It takes all kinds of hubris and reductionist deconstruction to imagine why they were doing it, so I’d rather just let it be and enjoy the fact that they did it. …
Courtesy MN, who made the Flickr blog with this one.
A correspondent poses an interesting question about the usability of RSS feeds for non-geeks. I love RSS, but the way I use it is completely geeky, so I’m probably a bad test case. If you’re reading this blog via an RSS feed, how are you doing it? What sort of software interface are you using, …
Despite a not insignificant investment of brain cells, I admit to continued ignorance of the ways of economics. Perhaps some of the smart people who read this blog can help me understand this: Gasoline demand for the four weeks ending May 26 averaged over 9.3 million barrels per day, an increase over last year, despite …
Jim Scarantino is back, with a lovely essay on his old Kelty.
My Gmail’s still inaccessible. It took Jugboy 13 days. update: It’s back up, a 24-hour outage. Looks as though nothing was lost.
I made the switch to Gmail nearly two years ago. I’d look it up and tell you the exact date, but I can’t because I can’t access my Gmail account. All day long, the same message: We’re currently performing some unexpected maintenance on your account. While we can’t predict exactly how long it will take, …
Dan McKay has a good story in today’s Journal answering questions that have been bubbling up about water quality once the city of Albuquerque starts taking its water from the Rio Grande. If you’ve got the paper copy of the paper, Cathryn Cunningham’s graphic is quite helpful as well.