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Another week of GW News, November 9, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsNovember 7, 2010 Chuckles, Pre Cancun, Post Nagoya, Geoengineering Ban, Election Reaction, Pakistan SOS Fund, GFIs, UN CFG, IEC, 2 Degrees, Living Planet Report Melting Arctic, Walrus Food Crisis, IP Issues, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Aerosols,…

Another Week of GW News, December 2, 2012

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another Week in the Planetary Crisis Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years December 2, 2012 Chuckles, Doha - COP18: Misc., Irony, Kyoto, Finance, Dailies Grafton, Bednarek, Rahmstorf, Shepherd, Subsidies, WB, Equador, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel,…

Like the Hitler Zombie It Returns: A Random Ten on a Friday

I haven't done this in a while; so now seems as good a time as any. I fired up iTunes and let 'er rip on "Shuffle Play," and this is what came up: Woody Guthrie, Talking Dust Bowl Blues (from: Dust Bowl Ballads) David Bowie, Lady Stardust (from: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars) The Sisters of Mercy, 1969 (from: Enter The Sisters) The Mamas & The Papas, California Dreamin' (from: Greatest Hits) The Stooges, Little Doll (from: The Stooges) Do Make Say Think, Bruce E Kinesis (from: Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead) The Animals, Monterey (from:…

Nim

As an introduction to a mathematical game, and how you can use a little bit of math to form a description of the game that allows you to determine the optimal strategy, I'm going to talk a bit about Nim. Nim is a simple two-player turn-taking game. The idea is you've got a collection of piles of rocks. The standard terminology calls each pile a heap. Each turn, a player can take any number of rocks from any single heap. In classic Nim, whoever takes the last rock loses. But we're going to start with an easier to analyze variant, where whoever takes the last rock wins. Let's look at an…

Another Week of GW News, April 13, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup (skip to bottom) Top Stories:Food Crisis, Melting Arctic, Vulcan & Hestia, Huaynaputina, Late Coverage Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Temperatures, Paleoclimate Impacts, Forests, Wacky Weather, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration Journals, Misc. Science, Hansen Kyoto-2, Fifth IPCC Report, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon…

Random Ten

"Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen from the album Born In The U.S.A. (1984, 4:18). "Angel Dream (No. 4)" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers from the album She's the One (1996, 2:27). "A Conta Do Samba" by Tita Lima from the album 11:11 (2006, 5:30). "A magazine called sunset" by Wilco from the EP Enhanced (2003, 2:38). "The Old Gospel Ship" by The Carter Family from the album Southern Country Gospel (1997, 1:52). "Bed-Time-Dream-Chime" by Roger Waters & Ron Geesin from the album Music From The Body (1970, 2:03). I haven't seen the film this was written for, but the soundtrack is ……

Friday random ten (on Saturday)

The Friday Random Ten is a bit of a blog tradition that many bloggers periodically indulge in, including fellow ScienceBloggers PZ, Chad, and John. However, Orac, ever the contrarian, likes to indulge in this practice on Saturdays (when he does it at all). So, without further ado, take a plunge into a very small sampling (0.08776%) of Orac's music collection that happened to come up randomly on a shuffle play set for my entire iTunes library: The Harbinger Complex, I Think I'm Down (from: Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era). Suede (I refuse to call them "The London…

Busy, busy, busy

I'm away from the office, helping historians beat up on creationists, so enjoy some fine music in the mean time. "Fall Of The Pigs" by COLISEUM from the album No Salvation (2007, 2:55). "She's Got A New Spell" by Billy Bragg from the album Must I Paint You A Picture?: The Essential Billy Bragg (2003, 3:24). "Fine Day" by Lessick and Lincoln from the album Other Lives (5:18). "My Dream Blues" by St. Louis Jimmy Oden from the album St. Louis Jimmy Oden Vol. 1 1932-1944 (1994, 3:32). "High And Dry" by Radiohead from the album The Bends (1995, 4:17). "I Heard My Mother Praying for Me" by Hank…

ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of Feb. 26-Mar. 3

For your weekly viewing pleasure, here are the larger (more Xtreme!) versions of this week's channel photos. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.) First photo here, the rest below the fold. Life Science. From Flickr, by *clairity* Physical Science. Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark…

Busy Day Random Ten

No time for bloggery today, but enjoy the music. "We Looked Like Giants" by Death Cab For Cutie from the album Transatlanticism (2003, 5:32). "Slippery People" by Talking Heads from the album Speaking in Tongues (1983, 5:06). "Grassy Grass Grass" by Elizabeth Mitchell from the album You Are My Little Bird (2006, 0:56). "Perfect Crime" by Guns N' Roses from the album Use Your Illusion I (1991, 2:23). "Get On Out" by Soul Asylum from the album Grave Dancers Union (1992, 3:30). "Coast to Coast" by Elliott Smith from the album From a Basement on a Hill (2004, 5:35). "Territorial Pissings" by…

Random Ten: "Dishin' out the gravy from its yas, yas, yas"

"I Wanna Be A Witch" by Kim Fox from the album I Wanna Be A Witch (1997, 3:40). "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" by Bob Dylan from the album MTV Unplugged (1995, 4:48). "It Was a Good Day" by Ice Cube from the album The Predator (1992, 4:20). "Heaven Or Las Vegas" by Cocteau Twins from the album Heaven Or Las Vegas (3:58). "Cabo Verde Manda Mantenha" by Cesaria Evora from the album Café Atlantico (1991, 4:03). "Frank's Wild Years" by Tom Waits from the album Swordfishtrombones (1983, 1:50). "Watasala Warila Nanzifile" by Alberto Mwamosi & Gabriel Bila from the album Forgotten…

Friday Random Ten: "The wind it tastes like gasoline"

I rolled the dice and pulled up ten random tunes from the ether. What mysterious messages "4.39 Am (For The First Time Today - Part 2)" by Roger Waters from the album The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking (1984, 2:02). "Stormy Weather" by Pixies from the album Bossanova (1990, 3:26). "Dirt Road Blues" by Bob Dylan from the album Time Out Of Mind (1997, 3:36). "Blue Sky" by The Allman Brothers Band from the album Eat a Peach (1972, 5:11). "Panty Rap" by Frank Zappa from the album Tinsel Town Rebellion (1981, 4:37). "Frankie and Albert" by Bob Dylan from the album Good As I Been To You (1992…

ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of Jan. 21-27

As always, take a gander at the large-scale versions of this week's channel photos. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.) First photo here, the rest below the fold. Life Science. From Flickr, by jurvetson Physical Science. From Flickr, by Tetine Environment. From OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory, via pingnews.com Humanities & Social Science.…

Happy Birthday PZ Myers

Yes, today, PZ is 50 years old! Archy, Grrrlscientist and myself are compiling linkfests today. Just make sure that you have the word "Myers" in your post (having just "PZ" messes up with some search engines - too short). This year, Dan Rhoades is the first out of the box with a cool tentacled cartoon. Richard Dawkins wrote a poem. Grrrlscientist did a scientific study. PZ himself acknowldeges his age. Last year, I made this cephalopod collage (click to enlarge). Greg Laden wrote a limerick. John Wilkins wrote lyrics for a Broadway musical. Sean Carrol gave PZ a... well, you'll have to see…

This Week's Channel Photos

For your weekly viewing pleasure, here are this week's large-scale versions of the channel photos. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.) First photo here, the rest below the fold. From Flickr, by josef.stuefer Characteristic spectrum of hydrogen as seen through a diffraction grating, from Flickr, by mirrorgirl A wind farm, from Flickr, by eurodana "Grand…

ScienceOnline09 - blogging from strange, crazy places!

Introducing another session: Blogging adventure: how to post from strange locations: This is a panel discussion with Karen James, Talia Page, Anne-Marie Hodge, Vanessa Woods, Meredith Barrett, John McKay, Kevin Zelnio, Rick McPhearson and Craig McClain: The stereotype is that bloggers write in their parents' basements, wearing pajamas, covered with Cheetos dust. But some bloggers have done amazing feats of reporting from weird and far-away places. Do you intend to do something like that? What are the technological challenges - and solutions - and what are the pros and cons of blogging from…

Another week of GW News, February 14, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... February 14, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, Copenhagen Accord, UN CFG, COP16+, Rasmussen , Bolivia, IPCC van Ommen & Morgan, Dorale et al., US Snow, Bottom Line, Cosmic Rayz, Grumbine FOI as a Weapon, Swiftgating, CRU Inquiry, Myers, Greenhouse Effect, Solomon Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica…

Random Ten

Happy Friday! "One Dime Blues" by Blind Lemon Jefferson from the album The Best of Blind Lemon Jefferson (2000, 2:47). "Whirlpool" by They Might Be Giants from the album Why Does The Sun Shine? [EP] (1993, 2:10). "Gin Soaked Boy" by Tom Waits from the album Swordfishtrombones (1983, 2:25). "One Flight Down" by Norah Jones from the album Come Away With Me (2002, 3:07). "Press My Button, Ring My Bell" by Lil Johnson & Black Bob from the album Copulation Blues (1926 - 1940, 3:18). "The Shift" by The Beach Boys from the album Surfin' Safari (1962, 1:54). "Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 1" by…

Random Ten

It's been a long Friday, so it's time to kick back with some tunes: "Viva Las Vegas" by Elvis Presley from the album Viva Las Vegas / Roustabout (1997, 2:22). "Bad, Wicked World" by Frank Black from the album Teenager of the Year (1994, 1:58). "Dead Horse" by Guns N' Roses from the album Use Your Illusion I (1991, 4:17). "Dixie Cannonball" by Hank Williams from the album The Complete Hank Williams (1998, 2:25). "It Is Obvious" by Syd Barrett from the album Barrett (1970, 2:59). "Sabotage" by Beastie Boys from the album Ill Communication (1994, 2:58). "Love" by Monopoli from the album Monopoli…

More random music

Because it's that sort of day. "Prairie Fire That Wanders About" by Sufjan Stevens from the album Illinoise (2005, 2:11). "License to Kill" by Bob Dylan from the album Infidels (1983, 3:34). "Spirit in the Night" by Bruce Springsteen from the album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973, 5:00). "Remedy" by The Black Crowes from the album The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (1998, 5:23). "Break On Through" by The Doors from the album The Doors (1967, 4:44). "The Trumpet" by George Atkins and Hank Levine from the album Sing along with JFK (1961, 1:56). "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" by Tom…

Random Ten

"Zibote" by Ernesto Djedje from the album Le roi du ziglibithy (2001, 5:52). "Thunder Chicken" by The Mighty Imperials from the album Thunder Chicken (2006, 3:11). "Ice Is A Solid" by Dorothy Collins from the album Experiment Songs (1:50). "Angel Flying too Close to the Ground" by Willie Nelson from the album Stardust / One for the Road / Honeysuckle Rose (1978, 4:24). "locked in the station" by namelessnumberheadman from the album 100,000 subtle times (2000, 3:57). "In Search Of Skip" by Sainte Chapelle from the album Soon to Fail (2007, 4:03). "One Step Forward" by Racetrack from the album…

Still more random traveling music

"Humble Me" by Norah Jones from the album Feels Like Home (2004, 4:36). "I'm Goin' Down" by Bruce Springsteen from the album Born In The U.S.A. (1984, 3:31). "Dancing In The Dark" by Bruce Springsteen from the album Born In The U.S.A. (1984, 4:05). "I Wanna Be Your Man" by The Beatles from the album With The Beatles (1963, 1:58). "Hummingbird" by Wilco from the album A Ghost Is Born (2004, 3:13). "I'll Cry Instead" by The Beatles from the album A Hard Day's Night (1964, 1:47). "Fingertips [15 - I Just Don't Understand You]" by They Might Be Giants from the album Apollo 18 (1990, 0:27). "The…

Another Week of GW News, May 10, 2009

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News May 10, 2009 Chuckle, Top Stories:Aus-ETS, Sol, Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica, Late Comments Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Ozone, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Climate Refugees, Desertification, Wacky Weather, Tornadoes, Wildfires, Floods &…

Another week of GW News, October 10, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information overload is pattern recognitionOctober 10, 2010 Chuckles, Tianjin, Copenhagen Accord, COP16+, ASEM, Syed, Haigh, Pakistan Bottom Line, Carbon Tariffs, Finance, No Pressure, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Feedbacks Aerosols,…

This Week's Channel Photos

As always, take a gander at the full-size versions of this week's channel photos. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.) First photo here, the rest below the fold. From Flickr, by Brian Switek Astronaut Leroy Chiao, and his refracted image in a sphere of water, aboard the International Space Station, from NASA San Diego fires, from Flickr, by TailspinT From…

Back from the dead: The Friday Random Top Ten

Here's something I haven't done in quite a while: The Friday Random Top Ten. So, let's fire up iTunes, set it to "shuffle play" and see what comes up, shall we? Here we go: The Kinks, Going Solo (from: Word of Mouth). David Bowie, White Light/White Heat (from: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: July 3, 1973, Hammersmith Odeon). Alice Cooper, Elected (from: Billion Dollar Babies). Dire Straits, Industrial Disease (from: Love Over Gold) Frank Sinatra, London By Night (from: The Best of the Columbia Years: 1943-1952). Morrissey, I'll Never Be Anyone's Hero Now (from: Ringleader of the…

Random Ten

In honor of National Poetry Month, ten random songs from iTunes: "By the Moon and Stars" by Louise Johnson from the album Mississippi Blues Vol. 1 (1928-1937) (1930, 2:51). "Po' Boy" by Bob Dylan from the album Love and theft (2001, 3:05). "God Don't Never Change" by Blind Willie Johnson from the album The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (1929, 2:59). "The Final Cut" by Pink Floyd from the album The Final Cut (1983, 4:45). "Hanging On A Star" by Nick Drake from the album Made To Love Magic (2004, 3:24). "Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt" by We Are Scientists from the album With Love and Squalor (…

Busy day random ten

Today was crazy. No time for thinking. Enjoy some nice music. "Somedays I See The Point" by Billy Bragg from the album Must I Paint You A Picture?: The Essential Billy Bragg (2003, 4:57). "Stupid's Song" by Ani Difranco & Utah Phillips from the album Fellow Workers (1999, 2:43). "Water May Walk" by Devendra Banhart from the album Niño Rojo (2004, 3:14). "Holly Going Lightly" by Destroyer from the album This Night (2002, 5:08). "I Am An Excellent Steel Horse" by Rock Plaza Central from the album Are We Not Horses (2006, 3:12). "John The Revelator" by Son House from the album Son House…

Yet more random traveling music

It will be a bit days before I can spend time writing anything thoughtful, so enjoy the music and reposted material for a little longer. "Monty Got A Raw Deal" by R.E.M. from the album Automatic For The People (1992, 3:17). "Devil In Her Heart" by The Beatles from the album With The Beatles (1963, 2:27). "Wreck On The Highway" by Bruce Springsteen from the album The River(1980, 3:54). "Mysterious Ways" by U2 from the album Achtung Baby (1991, 4:03). "Something" by The Beatles from the album Abbey Road (1969, 3:02). "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" by Bruce Springsteen from the album The Wild…

Another week of GW News, November 28, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not WisdomNovember 28, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, COP16+, WMSoC, Schneider & Hook, CSRRT, Reforestation, GreenPeace, Pakistan Carbon Tariffs, Subsidies, UNCFG, Ecuador, GFI, Psych, Year in Review, Cook, Post CRU, IEC Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food…

ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of Jan. 14-20

Here they are! As always, the large-scale versions of this week's channel photos. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.) First photo here, the rest below the fold. Life Science. From Flickr, by ellhoisa Physical Science: "Burning Mountain" in Namib desert. From NASA, via pingnews.com Environment. From Flickr, by Felix Francis Humanities & Social Science.…

ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of Jan. 7-13

Feast your eyes upon the large-scale versions of this week's channel photos. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.) First photo here, the rest below the fold. Life Science: Snake skin. From Flickr, by Tambako the Jaguar Physical Science. From Flickr, by Tambako the Jaguar Environment. From Flickr, by Tambako the Jaguar Humanities & Social Science. From…

ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of Dec. 3-9

We hereby present to you: large-scale versions of this week's channel photos. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.) First photo here, the rest below the fold. Autumn maple leaf veins, with the rest of the leaf removed by a semiconductor etch. From Flickr, by jurvetson From Wikimedia Commons, by Luc Viatour Biofuels. From Flickr, by jurvetson From Flickr, by…

Channel Photos, Week of Nov. 19 - 25

Feast your eyes on the full-size versions of this week's channel photos. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.) First photo here, the rest below the fold. Pyrrhosoma nymphula, from Wikimedia Commons, by Luc Viatour Velcro hooks, from Flickr, by olivepixel Stump of an elm tree lost to Dutch Elm Disease, from Flickr, by Unhindered by Talent From Flickr, by emdot…

Bonus random ten

Randomly selected from songs rated 4 or 5 stars: "This Night" by Destroyer from the album This Night (2002, 5:57). "It's Not My Birthday" by They Might Be Giants from the album Then: The Earlier Years (1991, 1:52). "She Was a Girl, She Was in Love" by Matt Baldwin from the album American Primitive Guitar (2006, 2:35). "All My Love" by Led Zeppelin (5:52). "Picture Book" by The Kinks (2:37). "Trampled Rose" by Tom Waits from the album Real Gone (2004, 4:00). "Heartattack and Vine" by Tom Waits from the album Heartattack And Vine (1980, 4:44). "Umpa Lumpa Song" from the movie Willy Wonka and…

Ten challenges met, ten still in play.

The 2007 DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge ends tomorrow, and ScienceBlogs readers have met (and exceeded) 10 of the 20 challenges we mounted, raising $47,705. Here's who's left: Uncertain Principles: $3442 from 45 donors (0.597 donors/1000 pageviews) Terra Sigillata: $2081 from 8 donors (0.738 donors/1000 pageviews) Cognitive Daily: $1584 from 23 donors (0.147 donors/1000 pageviews) Adventures in Ethics and Science: $1511 from 26 donors (0.556 donors/1000 pageviews) A Blog Around the Clock: $1499 from 6 donors (0.0499 donors/1000 pageviews) Stranger Fruit: $1358 from 16 donors (0.400 donors/…

LOLdenialists

Two from Nexus 6: (Referring to this.) From wadard From Jon Snow: From Gummo Trotsky: From Stefan: From Frank Bi And see also the ones in comments to my earlier post.

Random Ten

iTunes spins the wheels and reveals: "Midnight Rider" by The Allman Brothers Band from the album Dreams (1989, 4:26). I'm compiling this post at midnight. Does that make me a Midnight Writer? "Dinner Bell" by They Might Be Giants from the album Apollo 18 (1990, 2:11). Lunch yesterday: Ribs and brisket at Kansas City's famous Arthur Bryant's. Trillin is right, it is the world's best restaurant. "Hymn 43" by Jethro Tull from the album Aqualung (1971, 3:18). "Ed Is Dead" by Pixies from the album Come on Pilgrim (1987, 2:29). "I'll See You In The Evening" by Mazarin from the album We're…

ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of Feb. 19-25

For your weekly viewing pleasure, here are the large-scale versions of this week's channel photos. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.) First photo here, the rest below the fold. Life Science. From Flickr, by clairity Physical Science. Crystals growing on a cast iron fence. From Flickr, by Unhindered by Talent Environment. White Desert, Egypt. From Flickr,…

John Candy Would Approve

Calculate your CO2 emissions by plane, train, or automobile. Here's a puzzler for the greenhouse gas enthusiasts among you: According to this calculator, car and airplane emissions even out over progressively longer trips, despite the obvious weaknesses of an as-the-crow-flies methodology (see above; we're driving through Lake Erie). Is this trend real? Is there actually a distance at which it's less polluting to fly than drive? Here are some sample results... New York to Detroit: 0.236 tons CO2 from driving 0.275 tons CO2 from flying 0.206 tons CO2 from travel by rail/bus New York to St.…

Random stationary music

On the assumption that I'm in California, some happy music for your Friday: "ELT" by Wilco from the album Summerteeth (1999, 3:46). "Walls (Circus)" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers from the album She's the One (1996, 4:25). "Blue Eyed Soul" by Wilco from the album A.M. (1995, 4:05). "Hesitating Beauty" by Billy Bragg & Wilco from the album Mermaid Avenue (1998, 3:05). "The Happy Song (Dum Dum)" by Otis Redding from the album Very Best of Otis Redding (1992, 2:43). "Opportunity" by The Jewels from the album One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds, Lost & Found (2005,…

'Nother Random Ten

"Love hides" by The Doors from the album Absolutely Live (1970, 1:48). "Tonight's The Night" by Neil Young from the album Live Rust (1979, 7:12). “One Too Many Mornings” by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash from an unreleased album (1969, 4:05). "So Cruel" by U2 from the album Achtung Baby (1991, 5:48). "Snail Shell" by They Might Be Giants from the album John Henry (1994, 3:20). "Looking Towards Heaven" by Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson from the album The Original Folkways Recordings of Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley, 1960-1962 (1995, 2:30). Folkways remains among this nation's greatest…

Another week of GW News, May 9, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Sipping from the internet firehose...May 9, 2010 Chuckles, COP15 Leak, Bonn, COP16, Cochabamba, IPCC Review, EPO, Rabett, Beck Bottom Line, Carbon Tariffs, Per Capita Quotas, Open Letter, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Colony Collapse, Land Grabs, IP Issues, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Nitrogen Cycle,…

ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of April 8-14

For your weekly viewing pleasure, here are the plus-size versions of this week's channel photos. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.) First photo here, the rest below the fold. Life Science. From Flickr, by emdot Physical Science. A geyser in Yellowstone National Park. From Flickr, by jurek d. Environment. From Flickr, by jurvetson Humanities & Social…

ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of April 1-7

Yep, you've seen these photos before on our channel pages- but have you seen them THIS BIG? (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.) First photo here, the rest below the fold. Life Science. From Flickr, by JennyHuang Physical Science. Arenal volcano in Costa Rica. From Flickr, by guano Environment. An icy tunnel through New Zealand's Fox Glacier. From Flickr,…

Random Ten

Randomly selected from my "driving" playlist in iTunes. It's like you're in the car with me right now, as I drive across the western US. "How to Fight Loneliness" by Wilco from the album Summerteeth (1999, 3:52). "Fingertips 18 - The Day That Love Came to Play" by They Might Be Giants from the album Apollo 18(1990, 0:08). "Gotta Serve Somebody" by Bob Dylan from the album Slow Train Coming (1979, 5:21). "State Trooper" by Bruce Springsteen from the album Nebraska (1982, 3:17). "Help!" by The Beatles from the Ed Sullivan Show (1965, 3:01). "Julia" by The Beatles from the album The…

Random Ten

"Clothes Of Sand" by Nick Drake from the album Made To Love Magic (2004, 2:31). "Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 17 a 2 Clavier" by Glenn Gould from the album The Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould Plays Bach (1981, 1:21). Do you prefer the 1955 album? "Mardi Gras In New Orleans" by Professor Longhair from the album Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge (1991, 2:56). "Thunder Chicken" by The Mighty Imperials from the album Thunder Chicken (2006, 3:11). Funky as can be. "Rugare Rwamangwana" by Oliver Mtukudzi from the album Golden Afrique Vol.3 (Disc 2) (2006, 5:35). "Thursday" by Asobi Seksu…

ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of Dec. 10-16

Here they are: the large-scale versions of this week's channel photos. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.) First photo here, the rest below the fold. From Flickr, by CharlesLam A bouncing basketball, photographed at 25 images per second. By Michael Maggs, edited by Richard Bartz. Via Wikimedia Commons From the NOAA Photo Library, via pingnews.com From…

ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of March 25-31

If you like your cheeseburgers double and your redwoods giant, you may just like the large versions of this week's channel photos. Several of the photos—those featured on the Life Science, Physical Science, Environment, Humanities & Social Science, and Technology channels—come from Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides' new book, On the Surface of Things; you can read more about the inspiration behind these spectacular images in Page 3.14's interview with Felice Frankel here. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to…

ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of March 18-24

For your weekly viewing pleasure, here are the larger versions of this week's channel photos. Several of the photos—those featured on the Life Science, Physical Science, Environment, Humanities & Social Science, and Technology channels—come from Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides' new book, On the Surface of Things; you can read more about the inspiration behind these spectacular images in Page 3.14's interview with Felice Frankel here. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be…