facing the fire

A recent study finds that manufacturing processes used to make a lot of stuff, apparently especially tech stuff, is incredibly inefficient w...

Well, Earth Hour is coming up tomorrow, (28 March, 8:30PM). It's an hour when people voluntarily turn out the lights to mark awareness o...

Gallup has a new poll out, conducted using 1,012 Americans over the phone over three days early in March 2009. The results? First the positi...

Well, about 6 hours ago (as of writing time), a Taurus XL rocket built by Orbital Sciences Corporation of Virginia ignited and launched from...

Not really. Just a cool clock, check out this video.

Well, perhaps this diversion into the world of cloud-computing and "Web 2.0" and emerging technology is more than just a diversion...

Related to my previous post about cloud computing and such, I've been trolling the interwebs and trying to learn something. In doing so,...

More and more I'm frustrated with the cyber-infrastructure of climate science. It seems to be on the verge of crisis, in a Kuhnian sense...

So for those who follow the climate blogs (by which I mean the blogs in which climate change deniers' arguments are routinely dismantled...

So, just read the "News and Views" piece in Nature Geoscience (Vol.1, (644), 2008; doi:10.1038/ngeo326) called "Climate chang...

Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip from Leo Murray. Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo . I saw this poste...

I read a fair number of climate-related blogs. One of these days I'll try to get some kind of "blog roll" going on the side of...

This is outrageous. The Bush administration is trying to introduce some kind of executive rule that would allow federal agencies to convenie...

Well, in place of posting some hasty response to a story or new paper, I thought I'd point out that there's way more climate-related...

A correction, I have read the Kump & Pollard paper [ Amplification of Cretaceous Warmth by Biological Cloud Feedbacks -- Kump and Pollar...

Just read a quick blurb in Nature [ link ] that kind of rankled me. The writer, David Beerling, worries about the fidelity of biological pro...

There has been quite a lot of press coverage of a new paper in PNAS (doi:10.1073/pnas.0709472105) by Deutsch et al. about how global warming...

Today I read an article posted on Science Daily ( Aerodynamic Truck Trailer Cuts Fuel And Emissions By Up To 15 Percent ) that made me kind ...

I just wanted to note a rash of recent deaths of prominent scientists. Arthur C. Clarke, writer and futurist, died at 90 years old on 19 Mar...

Obama has backed out of the debate scheduled for next week, and McCain and Clinton were non-committal. So organizers are trying to schedule ...