From the monthly archives:
This is a great article by Kerry Emanuel describing the science of climate change, the complexities in predicting it, and the consequences that the future may hold.
It is a pretty long article. If you get tired of reading about the science of climate change (though it is wonderfully educational and well explained) the last fifth of [...]
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I came across this crazy video on National Geographic of an octopus squeezing itself through a clear plastic tube.
Because it has neither bones nor gas bladders, an octopus – including the 600 pound one in the video – can squeeze its body into seemingly impossible places. The short description of the video says some of the tubes [...]
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The second half of the four-hour, two-night premiere of 24 contained the kind of shocking surprises that I have come to expect at the beginning of a season. In fact, I was a little disappointed there was not more shocking material in the first night. But I think the writers more than made up for [...]
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A two-day, two-hour season premiere of 24! Could it get any better? I will go ahead and lump the first two hours together for this post.
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The saying in the title ends with “if it’s brown, flush it down”. In an effort to save money on our water bill, my second-year college roommates and I posted a sign with exactly that saying in our apartment’s bathroom. But that is neither here nor there.
I read a post on inkycircus (a science blog by three British women – and a new favorite site of mine) titled “Hap-pee New Year“. It linked to this thoroughly interesting article from New Scientist.
The article covers the interesting though environmentally troublesome problem of urine waste.
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This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.
Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.