Blue Planet Earth: Our World in Cinema

BBC and Discovery have teamed up again for a new series from the producers of Blue Planet.  This time it’s called Planet Earth.  The Goal of the producers is to do for the Whole planet what Blue Planet did for the Oceans.
“What interested me and my producers was to say: ‘O.K., if you’re a polar [...]

The Motion in the Ocean: Fluid Dynamics at Oceanus

 
Joe Pedlosky, PhD, at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute gives an interview about what it’s like to be an Ocean-Scientist who never gets on a boat.
As a Mathematics Student, and a man who is deathly afraid of the ocean, yet eminently mystified by it, I can see the appeal of the Field.

International Polar Year: It’s all about the Ice Caps

Science Magazine online rings in the International Polar year, a 2 year research initiative with the goal of exploring both the arctic and antarctic ice caps and their relation to the global climate as a whole.
I am very excited about this, because of how relavent that subject is to our daily lives.
How fast sea levels [...]

NYTimes Bites Gore over Climate Change

The NYTimes hammered Gore in a very ineffectual piece.  Here’s the rebuttal from Micheal Mann and Gavin Schmidt from RealClimate.org
Broad then draws upon the same false dichotomy used previously which seems to equate the mainstream of scientific opinion (that global warming and climate change is real, almost certainly in large part anthropogenic, and likely to [...]

Red Army Choir: Remembering the Hunt

Those Soviets may not have understood economics, but sure as hell understood music.  Remember this one:

Blogging Heads The Movie!

Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus (of Blogging Heads TV) are to star in the greatest Hollywood Blockbuster of the Year: Blogging Heads the Movie!

Gay Sports Bars all the Rage

May seem like an Oxymoron, but There is a real market in Gay Sports bars. Of course, it shouldn’t seem too weird. If you’re a gay man, and you want to watch sports, would you feel comfortable in a Straight Sports Bar?
“I think we have to mask who we are when we go [...]

Violence in the UK: Girls shout “Kill Him, Kill Him!”

A young 16 year old kid was stabbed to death in London while a group of onlooking teenage girls yelled, “Kill him, Kill him!”
The suspects being held include four 13-year-olds, two 15-years-olds and a man aged 21.
Never forget that humans are inherently prone to violence and aggression.  Like all animals, it’s in our blood [...]

Newt Gingrich, Champion of Family Values?

Andrew Sullivan just wrote a piece for the Times about the hypocrisy of Republicans and their family values stance.
Here’s one that’ll make you cringe, It’s a quote from Newt Gingrich talking about his then wife who was in the hospital battling cancer:
“She’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the [...]