From Amazon: We’ve noticed that customers who have expressed interest in Prediction: Science, Decision Making, and the Future of Nature by Orrin H. Pilkey have also ordered The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America by H. Bruce Franklin.
Members of the European Parliament have been told Alan Johnston is alive: Members of the European Parliament have been told by Palestinian leaders that the kidnapped BBC correspondent, Alan Johnston, is alive. A 12-member delegation of MEPs were given the assurances in a meeting with Palestinian Deputy PM Azzam al-Ahmad in the West Bank city …
Big Toe Artist Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. In addition to his scientific background, Big Toe spent two semesters studying art at the Sorbonne, during which time he spent a good deal of time at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, where several of Van Gogh’s self-portraits clearly influenced his current work. Today was his day off, …
Big Toe Gets Himself Donated to Science Originally uploaded by Driving in Heels. I’ve been increasingly concerned about the rigor I’m able to offer here, so I recently made the decision to add a climatologist to the Inkstain staff. Big Toe has a Masters Degree in Science, and has read several of the books on …
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news of the warm: Climate change and national security in the Times of New York paper of the day: Schenk and Lensink discuss the difficulties associated with public discussion of greenhouse gas emission scenarios word of the day: fruiterer – one who sells fruit (this would be a subset, apparently, of greengrocer, sans veggies) reading: …
I cried this morning over my granola. Best explained with something I wrote a few few years back: On Christmas round about 1973 or so, my sister, Lisa, gave me Breakfast of Champions, which changed my life in unaccountable ways. I holed up with the book all afternoon Christmas and into the next day, and …
Dust BowlOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. It’s reasonable to think that most of the folks in sub-Saharan Africa didn’t celebrate the release of the latest grim Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report by heading out to the ballpark last night. But that’s what Lissa and I did, the beneficiary of a pair of free tickets to …
Steve Aftergood’s Secrecy News is off my normal blog topics, but it’s a blog worth a read. Steve’s been toiling in the trenches for years, documenting government secrecy issues and publishing about them long before there were blogs. Today’s entry is particularly relevant to my professional duties: In what is being characterized by subordinates as …
The mysterious blogger known as Eli Rabbett has been cautious with his true identity, which is apparently known only to a few. But the crack staff here on the Inkstain investigative desk believe they have found what may be photographic evidence of his identity.
From the Times of New York: The Australian drug agency said it had uncovered a variety of unusual activities by consumers using the product, including sleep-driving, sleep-eating, and, in one case, a woman who painted the front door of her home while asleep.