2007.10.29 12:22:32 EDT Review: "Honest Broker" by R.A.Pielke Jr. I just finished reading a wonderful, thought-provoking book last night. The author, Roger A. Pielke, Jr., is Professor in the Environmental Studies Program and Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for
2007.10.25 17:23:59 EDT The spirit of science Homer Jacobson retired from teaching chemistry at Brooklyn College twenty years ago. On a whim, he googled himself. He was rather shocked to see that a paper that he wrote for the American Scientist i
2007.10.22 22:38:52 EDT The largest "landfill" on earth Some disturbing news: in the middle of the Pacific, roughly halfway between San Francisco and Hawai'i, is the North Pacific Gyre. It is a clockwise circulating vortex of ocean currents that covers abo
2007.10.19 19:59:39 EDT What's your equation? Edge's "World Question Center" debuted a project where they asked scientists "What is your formula? Your Equation? Your Algorithm?" Here are the responses that they collected. The overwhelming respons
2007.10.15 21:58:03 EDT Black Holes; What Penrose tried and failed to disprove might just as well be true Just found this wonderful little snipplet from an article/lecture by S. W. Hawking. Citation: Hawking, S.W. "The Event Horizon", from Black Holes: Les Astres Occlus Ed. C DeWitt, B.S. DeWitt; 1972, Go
2007.10.15 21:38:40 EDT Mpemba effect Something I found interesting: The Mpemba Effect. It is an observed phenomenon that under certain circumstances warmer water freezes quicker than cooler water. Its historical documentation goes all th
2007.10.14 20:39:50 EDT Much about tuning Man, I hate to do link dumps, but there are just so many nice fun things that I read about today. First, just learned about Tim Storms the current world record holder for the lowest note produced by a