Jul 11
pic nicked from here Gregory Ryskin, professor of Chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University, believes that BP’s oil spill might have started a world killing extinction event. His notion seems simple: huge methane bubbles released from the Gulf of Mexico started two mass extinctions: One 251 years ago and the other 55 million years ago. He …
Jun 03
“I’d like my life back.” –Tony Hayward: BP, CEO “Drill, baby, drill.” -Sarah Palin “We’ll employ new technologies that reduce the impact of oil exploration. We’ll protect areas vital to tourism, the environment and our national security. And we’ll be guided not by political ideology, but by scientific evidence. That’s why my administration will consider …
May 27
As a child, I had a friend who outgrew imagination based games. Having lost his keys to The Land of Make Believe, he no longer wanted to pretend anything, much less anything ridiculous. His reality bored me as much as my dreams bored him. One day, sitting in his tree-house, after having another idea shot …
