A Global Warming KInd Of Winter
January 30th, 2012 | 0 Comments | Home, Science |
Late January mind you.
From The Canyons To The Stars
September 20th, 2011 | 0 Comments | Science |
Anton Jankovoy’s photo from the Mardi Khola valley, Nepal. One in 5 of us never see the Milky Way.
It’s Cold Outside, So…
February 8th, 2011 | 0 Comments | Science |
So nothing. There’s nothing like a good diagram or two to explain a concept.
200 Years in 4 Minutes
December 2nd, 2010 | 0 Comments | Politics, Science |
Don’t miss this brilliant animation, via the BBC, of global income and life expectancy over the last two hundred years.
Science Marches On
October 1st, 2010 | 0 Comments | Food, Science |
With this handy research paper and map, you’ll always know what to tell the waitress you want.
Happy Moon Landing Day
July 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Science |
Kottke.org will be replaying the live CBS broadcasts of the landing and the first steps on the Moon, in “real time,” later today. Tune in here at 4:10 pm EDT for Walter Cronkite’s live broadcast of the landing, and again at 10:51 pm EDT for the epochal first step.
Political Climatology
February 8th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Politics, Science |
It’s probably not good for my intellectual well-being, but I subscribe to a couple of right-wing mailing lists just to keep track. Sometimes it’s difficult, like this weekend’s “Worldview Weekend” news. If you’re not familiar with them they’re conservative, “fundamentalist” Christian organization run by a guy who is a strict Biblical literalist, especially the parts about how awesome capitalism is.
Astronomy
July 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Science, Travelogues |
The United Astronomy Clubs of New Jersey have an incredible, commanding view that stretches about as far as any I’ve seen in the state.
From The Nice People Who Brought You The Word “Zaftig.”
May 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Art, Science |
“I showed it to a male colleague, and his response was, ‘Nothing’s changed in 40,000 years.’” –University of Tübingen archaeologist Nicholas Conard
Happy Birthdays
February 11th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music, Politics, Science |
Tomorrow is the 200th birthday of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. If you stretch it out to last week you can add Felix Mendelssohn. The three of them within a week and a half. Does that strike you as a lot of “household name” people to be born in such a short period of time?
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