So it ain’t Global Warming we’re facing: it’s a new ice age.
Astronomers Forecast Spotless Sun – A New Little Ice Age to Come?
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Linkpost 6/13/11
- Yeah, there’s an app for that: Final Space Shuttle Mission Will Feature iPhones
- That bacteria is shooting at you: Genetically Engineered Cell Shoots Out First-Ever Biological Laser
Post-Christmas Linkpost
- How Superstars’ Pay Stifles Everyone Else. This is a fascinating article from the point of view of information presented. Its conclusions, however, fall flat. (This is a link to a NY Times article; they’ve gone behind a registration wall.)
- What makes the US health care system so expensive. A ten-part series (completed) that covers where the U.S. spends more than you’d expect on health care. If you pay attention, you can data that support my identification of the root causes: a demand for redundancy, and market distortions caused by government and insurance.
- Browns’ front office tells off a complaining fan in a 1974 letter.
- Newest supporter of marijuana legalization: Pat Robertson?
- Mars Movie: I’m Dreaming of a Blue Sunset. Spliced together from pictures taken by Opportunity.
- Counter-Terrorism: A Frustrating Shortage. Turns out that they’re short bomb builders, which is why intelligence agencies are so concerned about Mumbai II.
- British soldier took a shot to the head to save 10-year-old girl.
- What Do the ‘Holiday Terror Warning’ Targets Have in Common? “If you guessed that all of these are (a) places where large crowds gather, and (b) places where authorities have outlawed the otherwise legal carry of concealed weapons, you were right!”
- Census: Fast growth in states with no income tax.
- Public Education’s Silver Bullet. Terry Moe seems to think that the technology is available for a labor-reducing revolution in education.
Linkpost, 11/5/10
- World celebs. In case you missed it, a Canadian couple donated an $11 million lottery jackpot to various charities.
- Americans Less Healthy Than English, but Live as Long or Longer, Study Finds.
- Deep Impact: The Website. I linked to this one just so I could quote it:
I am a proponent of the Strong Gaia hypothesis. The Gaia hypothesis views the Earth as a single organism that regulates conditions to sustain life on the planet. The Strong Gaia hypothesis accepts this notion, but further hypothesizes that Gaia finally got so pissed off at being whacked by roving asteroids that She evolved big brained primates as an immune system to fend off asteroids using nuclear bombs.
Linkpost, 11/23/10
- Was the Big Bang Preceded by Another Universe (Which Was Preceded by Another Universe)? This is a link to the Popular Science article, which includes a link to the actual paper. (The Kotaku article didn’t.)
- Is the Ben Bernank Stupid Like a Fox? Apparently there’s some question whether the Fed is actually printing money, or just claiming to.
- Adam Savage Mythbusting Security. Now, I don’t think an Isreali-style profiling system would bother with Adam Savage, but this just goes to show how useless the “find the bomb” strategy really is.
- The Well-Pilfered Clavier. Tim Cavanaugh ponders the actual effectiveness of our current Intellectual Property approach.
Linkpost, 11/29/10 to 12/1/10
- A biochemist worries about the radiation levels to which air travelers (and TSA agents) are exposed to by the TSA’s new machines.
- Dark Jupiter May Haunt Edge of Solar System. We’ve been wondering about the way comets drop out of the Oort Cloud, and this might be an answer.
- Scientists trick cells into switching identities. Just more evidence that we don’t need no stinkin’ stem cell lines.
- The primitive social network: bullying required.
Linkpost, 12/6/10 to 12/9/10
- An FBI informant tries to infiltrate a mosque, and they turn him in to the FBI. I wish there were more headlines like this.
- 10 Failures of the US Government on the Domestic Islamist Threat.
- Taliban Murders Afghan Elder, Thanks Wikileaks for Revealing “Spies”. I really wish we were prosecuting Julian Assange for his hand in Khalifa Abdullah’s death rather than the trumped-up rape charges.
- The Booming Business of Bootlegging.
- North America: The new energy kingdom. Ah, think of what could be if we could get the idjits out of the way.
- A live-blog of the Space X launch. (In case you were under a rock and missed it.)
- New species of rust-eating bacteria destroying Titanic. There’s some debate about whether these bugs are actually “new”, but they’re still cool.
Linkpost 10/15/2010
Continuing my new tradition of linking a day late, here’s some interesting stuff from yesterday:
- Do any of you remember the idea that the universe eventually collapses back in on itself? Well, there is some math that indicates that this is still possible: a Big Bounce explains the early inflation of the universe.
- Also, it looks like reducing carbon dioxide emissions in Europe actually increases emissions planet-wide. It looks like they’ve managed to reduce their internal emissions by 17%, but increased the emissions produced by their consumption (i.e., the real number including imports) by 40%. So they’ve outsourced their pollution, and (surprise!) it’s less efficient.
Labor Day Science Links
While I’m doing the eight-hour brisket barbecue …
- Hot Water Around Giant Carbon Star Creates Interstellar Mystery
- Think of this as a psychology link: Israel Identifies The Perfect Terrorist
- Novel nanotechnology collaboration leads to breakthrough in cancer research
- Is Believing In God Evolutionarily Advantageous?
- The Frozen Zoo aiming to bring endangered species back from the brink
- The Great Teaching Blind Spot
- Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium
- Chinese General Declares Democracy The Ultimate Weapon
- Gas-and-Brake Pedal Gets New Look After Recalls
- Triceratops ‘never really existed but was just a young version of another dinosaur’
- Donated Computer Time Discovers New Star
- Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s
- In a Video Game, Tackling the Complexities of Protein Folding
- Men in a sexually competitive environment die sooner
- Earth’s Inner Core Might Be on the Move