Mars has warmed about as much as the Earth has over the same period Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake. Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. [...]
Read more →National Geographic piece suggests that everything we know about mass extinctions may be wrong. Remarkable turn around this would be if it pans out. Everything you think you know is also wrong.
Read more →Beautiful writing about laziness When I returned from lunch I saw another friend circling the safe, studying it intently. He had not been a party to the earlier fiasco. “What are you doing?” I asked. “I’m going to move the safe,” he stated matter-of-factly. “Do you want to help?” “You’ve got to be kidding. I’ve [...]
Read more →Boing Boing on the subject Huge story about developing world culture advancing over the developed world here. I prefer “rich” and “poor” as you know…
Read more →So, think this through with me. Firstly, let’s assume that evolutionary history consists of nearly infinite numbers of generations. “Gunfights,” in which inter-species and intra-species competition kills nearly everything alive, followed by massive repopulation, followed by more gunfights, average a lesser quantity of living gene replicas at any given moment in time, although any given [...]
Read more →Sting sings “Every Bomb You Drop.”
Read more →Woody Evans figured out how to build a perfectly proportioned hexayurt model from a single 4′x8′ sheet of board material. It’s a very very clever bit of work, and pictures and the diagram are below. If you change the cut pattern a little, you can get six walls 4/5ths of a square high. Here’s how: [...]
Read more →Full report here Implication: somebody’s watching you.
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Read more →No idea he practiced. I’ve had tangential contact with Joi over the years. Went out for breakfast with him in Aspen with my ex-wife at one point (before she was my wife, never mind my ex-wife.) Really a funny, smart chap. I started talking about my technology at one point and he assumed he’d been [...]
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