California study suggests fire-free forests store less carbon.
Quenching forest fires leads to more carbon in the air, says new research carried out in Californian forests. The discovery suggests that forests spared from fire may release more of the greenhouse gas into the air than they absorb.
Oh well ....
In a 1954 letter that's being auctioned this week, Albert Einstein declared that religion is childish and primitive. "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish," he wrote to the philosopher Eric Gutkind. "No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."
A powerful earthquake has killed between 3,000 and 5,000 people in one county alone in Sichuan province in southwestern China, reports say. Thousands are feared killed and injured across other areas after the quake, which had a magnitude of 7.8, struck at 1428 local time (0628 GMT).
read moreAt least 18 people were killed in Oklahoma and Missouri on Saturday as tornadoes and other severe weather swept across the Midwest, according to the National Weather Service.
read moreThe number of government grants made to people who want to fit solar panels or other green energy systems to their homes has halved, the BBC has learned.
It comes after the low carbon buildings programme cut the maximum grant on offer from 7,500 to 2,500.
The Renewable Energy Association, which says the programme is failing, has accused ministers of complacency.
But the government says uptake went up considerably last month after the need for planning permission was removed.
read moreA Navy admiral engaged in sexual relations in the White House in 1990 with a federal employee whom he falsely told he was a widower, according to a report released Friday by the Defense Department.
In March, when the report was submitted to Pentagon officials, Rear Adm. John Stufflebeem was demoted and fired from his post as director of the Navy staff.
Stufflebeem told investigators he couldn't remember the name of the woman he had an affair with.
At least one of Britain's birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food.
Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars.
"Apparently the RC Church also thinks it's funny when someone claims to find a picture of the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich."
Especially if they don't get their Papal Dispensation.
I must say, though, considering ... St. Peter's is one hell of a pile of rocks.
Brunelleschi's dome and the Pantheon are way cooler.
So is this: www2.jpl.nasa.gov
"Galileo's finger is on display at the Museo di Storia del Scienza in Italy. The finger was detached from Galileo's body by Anton Francesco Gori (Florence, 1691-1757, literate and antiquary) on 12 March 1737 when Galileo's remains were transferred from a small closet next to the chapel of Saints Cosmas and Damian to the main body of the church of Santa Croce where a mausoleum had been built by Vincenzo Viviani."
Ol' modest Paul?
"Paul Harvey is the most well-known newsman in the world. "
www.paulharvey.com
Ed Murrow is waiting in hell for you, Paul, you pathetic hack. Or you'll just croak soon.
"If you are a felon you lose the privelege(sic) to vote"
Better do a little research next time.
"By federal law, voter rules are mainly set by the states. As a result, even in presidential elections, former prisoners can vote in some states but not others.
Only two states, Maine and Vermont, have no restrictions, even permitting inmates to vote. At the other extreme, three states, Florida, Kentucky and Virginia, still have lifetime bans on voting by felons. Nine others bar selected groups of offenders for life. "
www.nytimes.com
jonryker
According to one of my profs: www.quantum-chemistry-
history.com
Science consists of
1. observation
2. hypothesis
3. experiment
4. go to 1.
The hypothesis is modified in each iteration.
If it survives many experiments by many observers it is called a theory. Theories are not real nor true nor due they mean anything. Such notions are in fact counterproductive to science.
But that's only half the deal.
Many observations were predicted before they were observed. The transistor that allows this blog, for instance. Quarks (We've found them all.) All manner of things in quantum mechanics.
Another one of my profs, www.lib.utexas.edu was one of the early "many worlds" proponents.
"One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem."
Stephen Hawking
"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years."
Stephen Hawking
"you are well and truly lost"
-zombie zed
www.abarnett.demon.co.uk
scienceblogs.com
farm1.static.flickr.com
More than 18,000 buried.
More than 12,000 dead.
www.cnn.com
It could be worse, you could be Burmese.
"parking lot"
Never seen the Sedan crater, have you?
www.globalsecurity.org
Big smoking-radioactive-hole-in-
the-ground is more like it.
"Take a rest and take it easy. Let the world go to hell."
Posted by Tosser
Works for me.
MAKE THE WORLD GO TO HELL
Apologies to Eddy Arnold
Make The world go to hell ...
And get it off my shoulders ...
Say the things you used to say ...
(bombs away!)
And Make The World Go to hell ...
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Here's 60 ...
youtube.com
"Do they really know, joking aside, at what point the risk becomes apparent?"
Posted by Jawjaboy at 2008-05-11 12:14 PM
i179.photobucket.com
z.about.com
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com
"History to consider
Compiled by Jim Walker
First U.S. money never used the motto "IN GOD WE TRUST"
The original Pledge of Allegiance did not use the words "under God""
www.nobeliefs.com
"On March 22, 1956, during the Christian anti-communist fever of McCarthyism, Congress passed a bill establishing "IN GOD WE TRUST" as a national motto."
Idiots.
Claim: The youngest mother on record was a five-year-old Peruvian girl.
Status: True.
www.snopes.com
" 'You just have to have enough money to live on Belvedere.
~ZATOICHI'
Hole in one Flag."
Posted by Zap at 2008-05-10 09:02 PM
I have a (late) cousin who lived in the Summer house of the guy who built the bridge.
Every room had a view; Even the can; No shit.
And Brandy Ho's is still the best Chinese I ever ate.
www.brandyhos.com
Country 2000 L.E.
Andorra 83.5
San Marino 81.1
Japan 80.7
Singapore 80.1
Australia 79.8
Sweden 79.6
Switzerland 79.6
Canada 79.4
Iceland 79.4
Italy 79
France 78.8
Liechtenstein 78.8
Monaco 78.8
Spain 78.8
Norway 78.7
Israel 78.6
Greece 78.4
Netherlands 78.3
Malta 77.9
Belgium 77.8
New Zealand 77.8
Austria 77.7
United Kingdom 77.7
Finland 77.4
Germany 77.4
Jordan 77.4
Luxembourg 77.1
United States 77.1
Ireland 76.8
Cyprus 76.7
geography.about.com
"We should have attacked Iran in the 1980's when all their citzens were chanting Death to America."
We did.
It was a disaster.
history.sandiego.edu
"One last question: when Bush points his finger at meddlers how many fingers are pointing back at himself?"
Posted by YoMeLIB
bloggerradio.typepad.com
I nominate this as the Worst Sentence of the Week,
Or perhaps the Worst Sentence of the Weak.
Or perhaps the wurst sentence.
www.uni-erfurt.de
Hahahahahahaa
Posted by dawgpound
I have pictures.
Had them for over a year.
Los Alamos doesn't have any pictures.
Nor does anyone else.
Night.
www.hep.utexas.edu
"muon topography"
It's spelled tomography.
There exists one detector; It's been running 13 months now.
Two in the wings as I build them.
Check Arecaeology magazine's next issue.
"Muon Archaeology
By analyzing the trajectory of high-energy particles, known as muons, archaeologists hope to create images of the interior of pyramids in Belize and Mexico.'
www.archaeology.org
1015
"The 1015Y variety was developed at Texas A&M University as a strain which was more resistant to pink root disease than the Grano varieties. Prime time for Texas 1015s is April through June. It derives its name from its ideal planting date, October 15."
homecooking.about.com