Happy Autumn Equinox
Nota Bene #99: Heed the Peace Gnome
“You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you’ve got music.” Who said it?
Nota Bene #98: A More Glorious Dawn Awaits
“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled […]
Nota Bene #97: toDwI'ma' qoS yItIvqu'!
“To be truly free, and truly to appreciate its freedom, a society must be literate.”
Free the markets
. . .or, why can’t we be more like the savage socialists across the pond? Marion Nestle recently pointed out that in Europe food must be labeled as containing GMO’s. The system […]
The Weekly Carboholic: Distributed nuclear a cheaper nuclear solution?
Distributed nuclear “batteries” a solution for expensive nuclear? A brief TVA sludge spill update New definition of seawater to improve ocean modeling UK MET expects warmer 2009, likely record 2010 Food pests […]
Quotabull
I think blogs are dedicated to cruelty, they’re dedicated to dishonesty, they’re dedicated to speed. — Buzz Bissinger, author of “Friday Night Lights†and other bestsellers, castigating blogs on HBO’s “Costas Now”; […]
Corn ethanol production is killing the coastal Gulf of Mexico
Today’s recipe is for “Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone”: Start with historically massive agricultural input of phosphorus and nitrogen into the Mississippi River system. Add occasional yearly floods that can double the […]
