Sunday Birdwatching
Chihuahua Plaza – Flight Originally uploaded by Miguel Navrot. From Miguel, circa 2000
Archive of posts filed under the mind category.
Nuclear Proliferation
There is much to recommend the nuclear proliferation piece in this morning’s New York Times by Bill Broad and David Sanger. It’s an excellent overview of the situation – how we got here and what can usefully be said about what happens next. I single out the following not because I think it’s the most …
We Must Not Forget the Anna Politkovskaya’s
From Susan Moeller and Moisés Naím in today’s LA Times: There is no doubt that new technologies are changing the way all of us get and understand information. The trend is toward actively “searching” for what one wants to watch, read or listen to rather than passively taking in whatever editors or producers select. The …
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Daybook
cool new paper: Hainzl et al. show how rain can trigger earthquakes. stuff I wrote elsewhere: Wave in Alaska busts up iceberg off Antarctica (no big scoop here, every science writer with an angle has been doing this story, ’cause it’s so insanely cool) music: One of my favorite classic rock songs is Jim Hendrix’s …
The Giants Fans’ Clever Plot
A San Francisco Giants fan sends along this, evidence of a clever “Moneyball”-style plot to capitalize on the fact that Yankee fans are stupid enough to think Alex Rodriguez is a lousy ballplayer.
Why I Heart Google Earth
Playoff baseball tonight in Yankee Stadium, and the game’s start has been delayed by rain. Back in the olden days, I would have been perfectly happy with tracking the storm on National Weather Service radar. But that is so spring 2006. I mean really. Fire up Google Earth and type “Yankee Stadium” in the search …
Pi
Perhaps our resident translator of things Japanese can help explain this: A 60-year-old man from Mobara, Chiba Prefecture, recited pi to 100,000 decimal places early Wednesday, smashing the world record. It took clinical psychologist Akira Haraguchi–who also held the previous record–more than 16 hours to achieve the feat, which ended with the number 6. The …
Daybook
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 …
Careful What You Wish For
An Albuquerque guy, number one on Google for bomb making instructions. Let’s help keep it that way!
Chris Mooney Causes Radio Station to Fold
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.