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Posted in Global Warming on Jun 28th, 2006
Livescience, which is so pro-global warming they can taste it, ran this AP story yesterday:
Scientists Give Gore Movie Five Stars for Accuracy
By Seth Borenstein
Associated Press
posted: 27 June 2006
04:34 pm ET
The nation’s top climate scientists are giving “An Inconvenient Truth,”Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.
The former vice president’s movie — replete with [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Jun 27th, 2006
A while back I wrote a diatribe on the unfolding Hot Coffee scandal. Needless to say, I got it wrong. However, Senator Hillary Clinton decided to make it an issue and that did annoy me. Still does. Since that original post, Take Two has fessed up, agreed to all fines and restitutions, and basically taken [...]
Posted in Silly science on Jun 26th, 2006
I read this:
Having several older brothers increases the likelihood of a man being gay, a finding researchers say adds weight to the idea that there is a biological basis for sexual orientation.
“It’s likely to be a prenatal effect,” said Anthony F. Bogaert of Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada, “This and other studies suggest that [...]
Posted in The Solar System on Jun 26th, 2006
I love a come-on like this:
An asteroid possibly as large as a half-mile or more in diameter is rapidly approaching the Earth. There is no need for concern…..
According to Space.com, it will come within about the Moon’s distance from Earth. That’s a close call in space terms, that’s about 266,000 miles from you. I’m not [...]
Posted in Health on Jun 25th, 2006
From WebMD:
A potentially deadly, drug-resistant type of staph infection has been reported among unlicensed tattoo artists in at least three states.
A new report from the CDC shows that the antibiotic-resistant superbug known as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) has been found in 44 people associated with illegal tattoos from 13 unlicensed tattoo artists in Ohio, Kentucky, [...]
Posted in Travel on Jun 25th, 2006
From Cosmic Blog, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is looking to the future, again:
Some of the contenders in the commercial spaceflight race are more hush-hush than others - and virtually no one is more secretive than Blue Origin, the space effort funded by Amazon.com’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos.
This is what it might look like:
"The [...]
Posted in Travel on Jun 23rd, 2006
A while back someone was pointing to budget cuts at NASA as a sure sign that Republicans were waging a war on science. One of my rebuttals was that it is Republican to encourage the private sector to do what it can, the federal government does what the private sector can not. I then tore [...]
Posted in Global Warming on Jun 22nd, 2006
Here’s the headline:
Earth’s Temp at 400-Year High
By John Heilprin Associated Press posted: 22 June 2006 11:37 am ET
The Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, probably even longer. The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the [...]
Posted in The Internet on Jun 22nd, 2006
Here’s the story:
Pranger says 20-year-old Alexander Eric Smith of Battle Ground sat in the parking lot in his truck for three months, spending hours at a time piggybacking on the coffee shop’s wireless Internet service for free.
When deputies told Smith to knock it off, he came back and is now charged with theft of [...]
Posted in Energy on Jun 21st, 2006
UBC Engineers Create Vehicle that Travels from Vancouver to Halifax on a Gallon of Gas from PhysOrg.com A team of engineering students from The University of British Columbia has built a vehicle so efficient that it could travel from Vancouver to Halifax on a gallon of gasoline. [...]
That came out to something like 3,145 [...]