A friend points to one of the great baseball names, Twins’ rookie picture pitcher Boof Bonser. According to the MLB web site, the former Florida high school star had his name legally changed in 2001 from “John”. (Thanks to copy editor Malcolm.)
reading: My goofball daughter gave me The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster for Father’s Day. Way better than a barbecue, frankly. climate news: Sergey Zimov of the Russian Academy and colleagues have a paper in Friday’s Science arguing that the potential for carbon loss from permafrost has been underestimated. That’s another “plus” feedback: “Factors …
“The group title may well come down to its final two games Wednesday when Mexico plays Portugal and Angola meets Iran.” “This match will determine once and for all, which nation is the greatest on Earth – Mexico or Portugal!”
The problem with the U.S. Department of Energy. Perhaps subtitled: “Parking in 14 easy pages.”
From the virtual lips of Johnny_Mango, a phrase that has never before appeared on the InterWeb: Armenian chess houligans.
IMG_0059 Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. ride: The picture’s from a pedestrian bridge over the interstate near my house. This is how we do a lot of our rivers here in the western U.S. – all concrete, but with very little water in them. In this case, it’s a bit of a puzzle that there’s any …
We can do without toilets, we can bring our own water, but we have to have Internet. Mount Stromlo Observatory director Penny Sackett, on the priorities for restoring infrastructure following the wildfire that swept across the observatory in January 2003. From Dennis Normille’s account in the May 5 Science.
David Appell’s back. Yay. (His first two posts are about climate, so that’s where I’m putting him in the blogroll. I’ll amend as needed.)
I’m a huge Malcolm Gladwell fan. But for some reason, I hadn’t read Blink, his latest book. I bought a copy a while ago, and both Nora and Lissa have read and enjoyed it. (Lissa got me hooked on Gladwell in the first place.) I briefly picked it up right after I bought it and …
In honor of Drew Niles’ 8th-inning home run this afternoon, I’ve added Marlins Minors to my Planet. (Hat tip Miguel.)