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It’s Raining Frogs
It’s a somewhat cloudy day. You figure a storm will be coming and then raindrops start to fall. This doesn’t register as abnormal until you hear a small thud on the ground. Then you see a frog, limbs quivering, writhing on its back. Before you can figure out what has just happened, more frogs are falling around you. In fact, thousands of frogs are falling!
Continue reading...10 Abstract Masterpieces of Frost [PICS]
Thursday, November 27, 2008
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When the weather turns cold we moan about bitter winds and biting chills, too wrapped up in ourselves to notice that all around us the world is still as awesome, as it always is. Icy nights bring with them the familiar flourishes of Jack Frost and his artistic strokes. Like the best works of abstract art we wake up to new designs left to remind us that winter can be beautiful, too.
Continue reading...The UN’s Gloomy Forecast for Global Warming Refugees
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
A new report prepared in advance of the largest ever conference on the issue, details the findings of a two year preliminary study regarding how people react migrationally to changing climates. The conference,sponsored by the UN, will be held in Bonn, Germany and will be attended by over 600 experts and representatives of almost 80 nations. This largest ever conference on environmental based migration reflects the growing global nervousness that the threat of mass human relocation poses.
Continue reading...How to Turn Your Vacuum Cleaner into a Bazooka
Monday, May 12, 2008
The processes to make a vacuum cleaner bazooka. Images compiled from Planet SciCast Imagine my delight at discovering an absolutely epic experiment to turn your household vacuum cleaner into a bazooka. Word. Yay kids, this is where science helps you to shoot your friends in the gonads.
Continue reading...Hypocrisy 101: A Brief Review Of Hurricane Katrina
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Image from josh Miller As the death toll from the terrible cyclone that struck Myanmar climbs past 100,000, I keep thinking of the press conference that was held at the White House on Monday. First Lady Laura Bush, who from what we can tell is a fairly [...]
Continue reading...2008 Hurricane Season: Buckle Up
Thursday, April 10, 2008
The 2008 hurricane forecast is out, and the instructions for the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Seaboard are pretty clear: buckle up. Image from Tidewater Muse on Flickr After several years of lackluster performance, the pipeline
Continue reading...China Against Bad Weather, Not Just Tibetan Independence
Saturday, March 29, 2008
I’m a historian by education, and wrote my thesis on the cultural icons of the Olympic Games, so you can imagine I’m watching the developing situation with Beijing closely…. Image from H@r@ld on Flickr Obviously for the human rights purposes, but also because the Chinese Government is so strange [...]
Continue reading...Can Bacteria End Drought?
Monday, March 17, 2008
I was one of the unenlightened people that thought we knew how rain works. Thunderstorms over Brazil, captured by the space shuttle Challenger in 1984 I assumed that rain was essentially the result of water vapor condensing in clouds and falling to earth. I never once considered [...]
Continue reading...Glaciers, Not St. Patrick, Kept Snakes out of Ireland
Monday, March 17, 2008
It’s one of the most famous and enduring Irish myths. This snake fears no holy man! Legendary missionary St. Patrick is held to have chased all the snakes from the Emerald Isle after they attacked him during a holy fast.
Continue reading...Environmentalism in 1880
Thursday, March 6, 2008
As the environmental movement looks towards the future, it can sometimes forget its past. London’s fogs are famous, but they’ve also been deadly. Image by Myk Reeve This series is an attempt to provide a bit of perspective on how the environmental movement got to where it is today. [...]
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Monday, February 2, 2009
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