noisy old planet |
Earth is making a racket
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:07:00 GMT |
deep stupidity |
I have been thinking recently, sometimes in the middle of the night, that we need a theory of stupidity. It seems to me there are two sorts of stupidity: the everyday sort when you can't understand so...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:39:00 GMT |
Long Now Foundation |
Long Now Foundation - thinking on timescales much longer than human livesCosmic timescale thinking, but more bonkers:The search for a strategy for mankind to survive the solar red giant catastrophe
Posted by on Tue, 26 May 2009 13:31:00 GMT |
Facebook |
I've followed the hordes and joined Facebook. And found lots of people there I know. So if you're on Facebook, here I am
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 00:07:00 GMT |
miscellaneous |
undoubtedly true:Gail Trimble to be burnt as a witchfantastically talented little French kiddie revelling in the best of music:Jade chante Magma
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:04:00 GMT |
solar minimum again |
we really are in new territory, at least for the Space Age:http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarm
inimum.htm
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:20:00 GMT |
Norma Winstone |
thought I'd done this. Let's try againNorma Winstone We saw her live in London last weekend, on a wee weekend for our wedding anniversary. I didn't know too much about her (I liked the music of her tw...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:41:00 GMT |
Barack Obama |
says good things:http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Memorandum
-for-the-Heads-of-Executive-Departments-and-Agencies-3-9-09/
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:38:00 GMT |
two quick things |
Even although I am both an educator and a solar physicist I somehow managed not to know about this until now (it's tomorrow!):http://sunearthday.nasa.govHere you learn, in such a nice way, what I was ...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:54:00 GMT |
technology, wow! |
http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-147
4-megapixel-photo-during-president-obamas-inaugural-address/
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:36:00 GMT |
