Kristen Byrnes interview on NPR

15 04 2008

16 year old Kristen Byrnes got some national media exposure today on National Public Radio. You can read the article and listen to the story via MP3 here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89619306

You might also want to visit her website and offer some words of support or perhaps a little help towards college:

http://home.earthlink.net/~ponderthemaunder/index.html

Kristen has surveyed many stations in New England for www.surfacestations.org and I appreciate her (and her parents) hard work on the project.

 


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The newest green slogan

15 04 2008

No Food For Oil!

No Food for Oil! The new green biofuels slogan.

A friend of mine, Lon Glazner, runs a blog about things in my hometown. We joke around a lot, the image above was the product of today’s humor. But he needs some help, so please just click the t-shirt above and give him a hit so that he can be massively huge with numbers.

Lonz, we are going to “pump-you-up”!

Actually I have Lon to thank in part for getting me going on temperature issues, because it was he who was the sole commenter who understood the issues I raised with temperature measurement. That was just a little over a year ago on my old blog. The post was titled: In Search of the Perfect Thermometer.

Lon is an engineer (as many of my readers are ) and I asked him if he could design a cost effective yet very accurate and low drift thermometer. I’ll have to say, that exchange got me going and thinking about temperature measurement in general. This blog owes a lineage back to that discussion with him.

So please repay him the favor, visit his blog, and drop a note.

 


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There’s a chill in the air

15 04 2008


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For example, in America’s heartland (thanks to Joe D’Aleo at ICECAP): Cedar Rapids and the surrounding Midwest has been consistently colder than normal since December. In Cedar Rapids, December averaged 3.0 F below normal, January 1.9 F below normal, February a whopping 8.3 F below normal, March 4.9 F below normal and so far in April 4.4 degrees below normal.

KCRG-TV also has a story about temperatures being unsuitable for gardening there in Cedar Rapids.


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