Out Drankin’
July 30, 2010As the economy tanks, people seem to be drinking their financial problems away, as research indicates more US peoples are hitting the bottle, with more white guys getting bombed than any other ethnic group. Free,…
Category Archives: Cloud Gazing
Friends
July 28, 2010Lack of friendship is supposedly worse on your well being than a Quadruple Bypass Burger from the Heart Attack Grill. From Reuters on a report released Tuesday by a research team at Brigham Young University: Having…
Blind Oversight
July 27, 2010Long ago, when in high school, I lost almost $100 somewhere after a shopping trip. My mother — always aware of how a bit means a lot, and even with the money being my own…
‘Why aren’t they turning?’
December 20, 2009In the midst of bad news from many quarters, this latest does make one feel better. From Wired: That asteroid is Apophis, a 900-foot asteroid. Calculations released on Christmas Eve 2004 appeared to show that…
Light-Up a Smoke
December 14, 2009Copenhagen: Tempers flared Monday at the United Nations climate summit as poor nations staged a walkout to protest what they called inadequate aid offers from rich countries, and the U.S. and China jockeyed for position.…
Anoxic Anxiety
December 13, 2009Nearly in a near-panic. Wikipedia:Â Oceanic anoxic events or anoxic events occur when the Earth’s oceans become completely depleted of oxygen (O2) below the surface levels. Although anoxic events have not happened for millions of years,…
Quick Punch
November 23, 2009(Illustration found here). A new satellite-based study published Sunday in Nature Geoscience indicates the supposedly more-stable East Antarctic ice sheet has as been losing 57 billion tons of ice bulk a year since 2006. From the BBC…