My employer kindly pays for a subscription to New Scientist, which has become my favorite curl-up reading, not least because the Brits seem to have mastered the amusement offered by their native tongue. My favorite bit is the last couple of pages, including the hilarious Feedback and The Last Word. The latter is a feature …
Route 66 Bridge Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. A favorite photo of the old Route 66 bridge, over the Rio Puerco (the river of pigs) west of Albuquerque. It’s closed to traffic, but has been preserved as a bizarro tourist attraction. You can walk out on it and see that there’s no water in the Rio …
In honor of Drew Niles’ 8th-inning home run this afternoon, I’ve added Marlins Minors to my Planet. (Hat tip Miguel.)
Very late to the party, I finally got around to assembling what we know about that May 4 streak in the sky.
One last word: Attacking in a bicycle race— riding off the front of a pack of cyclists, heading into the wind— is either a fool’s errand or the sign of a champion, or both. Tony Geller said he’ll always remember his riding buddy, Bill McLain, as “the guy who attacks all the time, any time.” …
The house I grew up in had a beautiful bird of paradise in the front yard. I took it, like much that surrounds us as children, for granted (water to the fish), but in retrospect I recognize it as the most beautiful plant I’ve known. Last Monday, at Albuquerque High School’s graduation, each student was …
The latest ENSO forecast from the U.S. government’s Climate Prediction Center shows continued uncertainty: Most of the statistical and coupled models predict ENSO-neutral conditions in the tropical Pacific through the end of 2006 (Fig. 5). However, the spread of these forecasts (weak La Niña to weak El Niño) indicates considerable uncertainty in the outlook for …
I threw on my raincoat a little while ago so I could go for a quick walk before bed. I had to. We’ve had more rain here in Indianapolis in the last eight hours (0.90 inch) than we’ve had in Albuquerque in the last six months (0.41 inch). I can’t remember the last time I’ve …
Weather forecasting using astrology. (Hat tip Aaron.)
I’m traveling this week (see here), so my attentions are elsewhere. But with time to kill this morning, I was cruising some scientific back alleys and found this fascinating bit of business in GRL. It seems that ENSO, the best tool available for seasonal forecasting in some regions of the world, may not be working …