This is one of the best arguments I've seen for taking action to avoid human-caused global climate change, whether we know for a fact that it is happening or not. It's simplified, definitely, but that's the point.

Of course, he doesn't address the companion problem, which would need its own grid. His grid looks only at global climate change ( Read more... )

So, the lovely gas prices, and my weight, and my inability to cue an entire choreography while dancing it without getting out of breath, have combined to get me off my ass ... or rather move my ass back onto my bike. I knew I had done 6.5 miles that one day on Block Island, so I set out to see what I could manage today ( Read more... )

For whatever reason, I decided to go do something I've not done in ages: see a movie the day it gets released. I knew next to nothing about The Day After Tomorrow, except that there was controversy about it. Oh, and that it was supposedly 1hr 29 min, which, with a 3:05 start, even allowing for 15 min of previews, should have gotten me to work on ( Read more... )