It’s been a busy week, but I wanted to make a quick post.
I’ve spent a lot of the week wrapped in a blanket trying to stay warm. No, I haven’t had heater problems, I’m just cold. That’s one of the reasons I was really impressed by this video on 20/20 about a guy who climbed Mount Everest in shorts. He is called the iceman and he is highly resistant to cold, the total opposite of me. Here is an article too. Most of the show was about medical problems. I did not know people who stutter do not stutter when they read in unison . They have a device that looks like a hearing aid. It replays your voice in your ear with a delay and it can cure stuttering, at least for a while.
Reading stuff like this piece on modeling a material based on the skin of a sea cucumber really makes you appreciate the diversity of life. Every time a species goes extinct, we don’t even know what we have lost. Here is a similar piece on modeling wind turbines based on t...
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Sea Oh TooFrom: johnnyphoton.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 11:21:47
My friend Dan posted this link to the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in a comment recently.
Here is a quote;
Only 27 percent believed “the current state of scientific knowledge is able to provide reasonable predictions of climate variability on time scales of 100 years.”
No one disputes atmospheric carbon dioxide, (CO2), levels are rising. Nobody disputes we are dumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. So what is the point? Let’s change the atmosphere...
more The ‘Yuk’ FactorFrom: johnnyphoton.com
Post Date: 2008-03-11 13:24:01
I’m not really sure what year it was, sometime in the late sixties. I was fishing on a lake in Canada with my family. The sun sparkled on the clear water. It was a beautiful day. Our native guide reached into his bag and pulled out a cup. He dipped the cup into the lake, raised it to his lips, and began to drink. To me, he might as well have pulled a rabbit out of a hat, or a quarter from my nose. I was amazed. “You can drink the water?” I said. He just nodded.
I grew up in...
more Swimming in LightFrom: johnnyphoton.com
Post Date: 2008-03-13 12:44:52
Bill Foster is a physicist who won a special election to the U.S. House of Representatives. Politics are so strange I guess it’s not surprising that few scientists want to run for Congress. I suppose there is no reason to assume someone trained in math and logic would be a better Congressman than one who is not. On the other hand, it would be reassuring if people voting on important issues demonstrated some ability to think logically. Also, many issues are extremely technical in nature ...
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