Scientific American => The Flipping PointHow the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has converged to cause this environmental skeptic to make a cognitive flipIn order to link to this article, I believe I agreed to a copyright condition that I would make no comments on this, so I won’t.
Yeah! My grass Jelly Drink photo inched its way to 100 views on Flickr.Well, looking at the picture is infinitely better than drinking the darned stuff!
I ordered my Macbook last week and paid for 2-3 day expedited shipping (rather than 5-7, which usually equates to 7-8 days), and, remembering that it is TOMORROW in China, so it was really shipped on the 24th, this is ridiculous!It’s here in Phoenix, since last night, and they don’t plan to deliver until Wednesday?! Yes, today is a holiday, but that’s no excuse for it taking 7 days!!!
The Idiot’s Lantern by Mark Gatiss Mark Gatiss, who turned in one of the best episodes last season has delivered again. It’s 1953 London, on the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, and an alien lifeform existing inside television plans to feed on the 20 million people anticipated to watch the coronation. The term “Idiot’s … Read more
New Scientist Space =>Mysterious glowing clouds targeted by NASAGlowing, silvery blue clouds that have been spreading around the world and brightening mysteriously in recent years will soon be studied in unprecedented detail by a NASA spacecraft.The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission will be the first satellite dedicated to studying this enigmatic phenomenon.
DenverPost.com => Stegosaur tracks a colossal findNew Stegosaur footprints found near Denver, Co.The state’s first footprints of a stegosaur – Colorado’s official fossil – have been discovered near this foothills town 15 miles west of Denver.Two new dinosaur track sites found by staff and volunteers of the Morrison Natural History Museum also include footprints made by two or three not-yet-identified and potentially new dinosaurs.States have official dinosaurs? I want an official dinosaur.
worldwaronecolorphotos.com => Photos from World War IWorld War I……. This site contains hundreds of photos taken by the French in the last two years of World War One.This is a site containing hundreds of actual color photos of World War I.
I’m not even going to try to include one of these pictures, they’re too big, but really worth a look. A wrecked B25 in remarkably good condition was recovered from a lake in South Carolina.
BBC NEWS => Divining rods ‘help beat drought’Thirteen million people have been banned from using hosepipes. Water company engineers are using divining rods to help tackle leaks and beat the drought in the South East.Southern Water said divining is used by some of its crews, although modern electrical equipment was mostly used.
FOXNews.com => Fossilized Claw May Reinforce Bird-Dinosaur Evolutionary LinkOne of the (justified?)