Journalists Predicting the Future
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Archive of entries posted on February 2004
Stuff What I Wrote Elsewhere
From this morning’s Albuquerque Journal: The Bush administration asked Congress on Monday for the largest nuclear weapons budget in U.S. history. The Bush administration’s request of $6.9 billion for nuclear weapons work is larger, in inflation-adjusted terms, than the budget reached in 1985 during the peak of the Reagan administration Cold War. That was the …
Carson Marks
I received a piece of spam today from Carson Marks. At first I thought, “Wow, a veteran of the Manhattan Project, one of the designers of the first atomic bomb, is trying to sell me prescription medicine on line.” Then I realized the eminent theoretical physicist is J. Carson Mark, not Marks. Plus, the eminent …
Into the cuckoo’s nest
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Fortune on Climate Change
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Weird Googlejuice
I found the answer this morning to one of life’s great mysteries. In my Inkstain logs, I see a steady traffic to an old blog entry about Lowell George and Frank Zappa, and I’ve never understood why. I only found one person linking to it, an entry from back in December on a rarely updated …
“I Ripped My Pants”
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The Corrales Hill
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Ununtrium, Ununpentium
Science writers like to make hay when scientists see something that’s, ya know, never been seen before by humans and stuff. But this (NYT, reg. req.) is about as genuinely “never been seen before” as it gets: two new elements, 115 and 113 (nominally “Ununtrium and Ununpentium” for now) created in a lab in Russia. …