Keith Bradsher wrote in yesterday’s New York Times about what happens when we start using food for fuel: In some poor countries, desperation is taking hold. Just in the last week, protests have erupted in Pakistan over wheat shortages, and in Indonesia over soybean shortages. Egypt has banned rice exports to keep food at home, …
Rich Sweeney had a post last week that answered a question I’ve had: What does the runup in oil prices look if you’re not so US-centric as to view it in dollars? Obviously dollars is the currency I have to use to buy my barrels of oil, but I was curious how much of the …
Words of wisdom I recently shared with my daughter: It’s important to never take blueberry swirl bread toast for granted.
Peter Waldman has a story in Portfolio exploring the role of the federal government in general and Harry Reid in particular in the growth of Las Vegas: In a city running out of water, massive housing projects rise in clouds of dust on the outer reaches of the Las Vegas Valley like stucco ramparts built …
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Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I’m working on a piece for the newspaper about riding a bike. At the risk of giving too much away, I’ll say simply that it’s about going to places and seeing things. Such as these things, seen today: ice: It’s been dry for a couple of weeks, but the concrete flood …
I woke up Sunday morning for the first time in year without thinking about what work I needed to do that day on the book. The manuscript sits in a stack on the shelf next to me. (They want it printed on paper in addition to being burned onto a CD! How quaint!) I took …
On the city of Albuquerque’s greenhouse gas reduction claims (adwalled): It is a claim every Albuquerque resident who cares about global warming could be proud of: Since 1990, city residents have cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 6 percent. It is also untrue. See also ethanol vehicles.
From the Guardian: ‘He is doing tremendously well and long may it continue. He’s in at the deep end, but he’s not out his depth. Some days he’s doing everything, scoring goals, playing passes and it’s great to see. It’s good experience for him right now being about the first team.’ HT Dave
Died in a haberdashery accident.
I’ve always been fascinated by astronomy’s variable sky community – the folks who look for things that change. Most traditional astronomy involves parking a big telescope on a single object and watching it for a while. But the variable sky – things that change on time scales ranging from minutes to hours to days – …
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