Climate Change – Ravaging Adélie Penguins
In a book review of Fraser’s Penguins we get the bare, scary facts. As with spotted owls or the Abra …
Category Archives: Science & Technology
Alternatives to Amazon
The Google e-bookstore is finally open. Now, instead of going only to Amazon, or only to Barnes and Noble you can …
Cyber War Worries
I’m always alert when news of computer viruses hits the wires. I’ve been in the virus extraction business for years. …
Russian Drought / Pakistan Floods / Atlantic Hurricanes
As the old song goes, the foot-bone is connected to the ankle-bone, the ankle-bone is connected to the shin-bone, the …
Plows, Plagues & Petroleum: A Review
William Ruddiman , one of the early paleoclimatologists —a climate scientist who studies climate in ages past– is the father …
Water, Cool Clear Water
FORGET expensive machinery, the best way to purify water could be hiding in a cactus. It turns out that an …
Genesis Addendum
Looks like after God created light and the firmament there should be an addendum in Genesis such that “let the …
Iceland Fireland
The blowing volcano is Iceland is a simply incredible natural phenomenon. Everyone in the geological sciences must be in high …
The Greatest Show on Earth: Richard Dawkins
I’ve just finished a several week virtual book club with a friend in Colorado. We both downloaded and listened while …
NOAA Climate Services Site
Very good news yesterday that NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is proposing to create a Climate Service division …
How Stuff Works
In my new career as an explorer of podcasts available to the iPhone — and so a welcome step away …
Darwin’s Influence on Western Thought
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, last Tuesday, November 24, Scientific American …