It Makes Augustus Look Like a Doofus
io9 – Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked
(That’s a Roman statue there, says the girl who took two years of art history classes.)
Curtsy: RC2.
Categories: Art and Literature
And Today, the Metric System
Well, that was fast. Just yesterday I started fominating about ending the French Revolutionary tyranny of measurements, and today I see this:
TLS – Before London went metric A tribute to the city’s lost architectural dignity, and its unregarded lives Lindsay Duguid
The story of Lost London is straightforward: a largely Georgian city with medieval survivals was [...]
Categories: History
Hilina Slump
Being a nerd, I tend to pore over Wiki in all places. The other day I looked up Moloka’i (the island to the right of the sunsets here in West Maui) after reading about this event in the copy of Maui Revealed someone left here:
The northern half suffered a catastrophic collapse about 1.5 [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
Happy Pi Day!
It’s 3.14. Imagine the nerds errupting on this date in 2015…
Categories: Science and Nature
The Best Kind of Research
Telegraph – Bad weather blamed for Scotland having ‘more people with ginger hair’ Scotland’s notoriously bad weather appears to be behind why more of the country’s population appeared to be blessed with ginger hair, new research has claimed.
The non scientific research found that in areas where the temperatures in summer were cooler and winter [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
The I’m Sick Link Dump of February, 2010
SO MUCH but so little energy…
On Unions and how to deal with them:
Corner – State of the Nation, by John Derbyshire
This headline brightened up my breakfast: Unionized Rhode Island Teachers Refuse To Work 25 Minutes More Per Day, So Town Fires All Of Them [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Glaciers and Rain Forests and Politicians Gathering On Top Of Mount Flipping Everest, Oh My!
The Globe & Mail – The great global warming collapse As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement, by Margaret Wente
The impetus for the Copenhagen conference was that the science makes it imperative for us to act. But even if that were true – and even if [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
So Much SCIENCE
I have decided to take advantage of this long weekend and make myself a portfolio. For those of you wondering what on earth I’m doing. Also: a friend was in town and we had brunch. SO MUCH BRUNCH. So that’s where I’ve been.
I have a ton of links on Haiti and other important things [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
The Mystery of the Missing Weather Stations
Send in Nancy Drew!
Telegraph Blogs – Climategate goes American: NOAA, GISS and the mystery of the vanishing weather stations
For those who haven’t seen it, here’s a link to US weatherman John Coleman’s magisterial demolition of the Great AGW Scam. I particularly recommend part 4 because that’s the one with all the meat. It [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
Monckty Rides to Australia!
And Australian Climate Skeptic Speaking Tour Correspondent Brett McS will be on the scene!
Climate Change and Global Warming Australian Tour details Lord Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Scottish Peer, former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, and International Business Consultant Professor Ian Plimer – School of Earth [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
Coincidences, the Alberta Prairies and BBC Scotland
Telegraph – Geraint Woolford, meet Geraint Woolford…<br/> From D-Day codewords to the only two men with a particular name meeting in hospital, life is full of staggering coincidences, says Nigel Farndale.
Did you see the story about the only two men in Britain called Geraint Woolford, who ended up in neighbouring beds in the same [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
The Universe: The Music Video
Curtsy: Vanderleun in his awesome post about awesome Saturn’s awesome hexagonal ring.
It’s this kinda thing that’ll make kids wanna study science.
Categories: Science and Nature
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXII
More Hazard, Relinquished Vigilance and Da Gubmint
The best ACTUAL explanation for how government takeovers of life turns citizens into totally dependent:
Canada Post – Kate Tennier: Why does more classroom time actually hinder learning?
Although it may sound illicit, “moral hazard” is in fact a dry term used by economists to describe the phenomenon whereby an insured party’s behaviour becomes less [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
Sunspots, the Coming Ice Age, and Justifying $80 Cute Winter Baby Booties
I saw this the other days, a breakdown on our favourite book-signing geologist from Adelaide:
Telegraph – Prof Ian Plimer: tenets of a climate change sceptic<br/> Prof Ian Plimer, a geologist at Adelaide University, hit the headlines in Britain on Thursday, giving an interview in which he claimed that “not one great climate change in the past [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
