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It’s that time of year again… - 90 days ago
New undergrads on campus. Which means I get to hear all sorts of silly thing like:Wombats are just like little kangaroos, right?According to Le’ Wikipedia, they are both of the order Diprotodontia, and they both live on the Australian continent,... Topics: Academia, Humor, Wikipedia

What is a greenhouse gas? - 203 days ago
I just picked up my loan of Climate Change: Picturing the Climate and was thumbing through it when I came across this definition.greenhouse gases: Any gas that, by an accident of chemistry, happens to absorb radiation of a type that the Earth, by an...

Swing flu update - 214 days ago
I know y’all were wondering what university administrators think about this whole “epidemic”, and I have the scoop.From http://www.uanews.org/node/25497:officials at The University of Arizona continue to meet daily to closely monitor...

A real life emergency - 214 days ago
So apparently there’s this swine flu thing going around, and it’s been on the news. I didn’t hear about it until yesterday when I got an email. I don’t watch the enternewsment anymore. But that’s not the emergency I’m..

The Future: Distributed Energy Production and Storage - 390 days ago
Production of energy is currently the realm of large corporations, which have centralized facilities that, typically, burn fossil fuels. The obvious side effect, is that while burning fossil fuels creates energy, it also creates carbon dioxide.... Topics: Energy, Environment






