Here’s more inconvenient news from solar researchers. Even though our sun is quiet at the moment while we are in between peaks in the 11 year sunspot cycles, scientists based…
Month: April 2007
What could they possibly be thinking ?
Today, just for a moment, I thought I was transported in time back to last Sunday, April 1st, because surely this had to be an April Fools joke. Nope. It’s…
Calculating Easter
Did you ever wonder why the date of Easter is not fixed like Christmas, or St Patrick’s Day? Well its because there is a series of complex and somewhat inane…
New hope for hearing loss
Here’s one of the best reasons ever to support stem cell research. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, recently published research findings in Developmental Neuroscience which suggest…
The adapability of man to his climate
Yesterday, the IPCC Climate Change Report was released. Now the hand wringing starts. I’ve made a lot of entries on climate change here, I’ve given newspaper interviews, radio interviews, written…
It's the Sun, stupid
The The United Nations’s IPCC Report comes out today so I thought I’d make a report too. James Carville used to remind Clinton during the ’92 campaign that “its the…
The Sun may disrupt GPS system, banks, hi-tech during next solar max
As previously mentioned on this blog, sunspot 930 released a masive solar flare in December, even though we are in the solar minimum between 11 year sunspot cycle peaks. Now…
Flying Wind Farms
Here’s a novel idea. The Economist magazine has an article on Flying wind farms. Now we’re not talking about ordinary, land based windmills here. We’re talking about actual airborne —…
Guest Blogger: William F. Buckley on Climate Change
From RealClearPolitics April 03, 2007 Business of Global Warming Feels a Lot Like Inquisition By William F. Buckley The heavy condemnatory breathing on the subject of global warming outdoes anything…
$10 million plus X Prize offered for a 100-MPG car
Now here’s something I can get behind. The X Prize Foundation, which spurred innovation by offering $10 million for the first privately built spacecraft plans to offer millions for the…
Newspapers to add smellovision stickers
As newspapers look for new ways to attract and retain advertisers, some are going for the nose. USA Today is launching its first national campaign using scent technology. Omni Hotels,…
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