“Era of the Pharaohs: Climate was HOTTER THAN NOW, without CO2”
This is why I say that we should make no drastic changes until the science results are final. (They’re not, yet — the conclusions there could still be reversed by fresh evidence.)
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“The universe speaks: ‘It’s time to get off your rock!'”
Those of us who think about these things have been saying that for decades. I hope people listen soon enough for it to do humanity some good.
“Greenland ice SIMPLY WOULD NOT MELT in baking +8°C era 120k years ago”
Article here. Posted without commentary, except this: :-p
“Boffins create quantum gas with temperature BELOW absolute zero”
I’m breaking my self-imposed silence to mention an article that really caught my interest today. From near the end of the article: […] As Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told Nature, “This may be a way to create new forms of matter in the laboratory.” Boffins have theorized that such sub-zero matter …
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It’s a Speed Demon, All Right
The Solid State Drive (SSD) has been in the system for over a week now, so here’s an update on it: It’s FAST! Okay, that’s not news, but I felt compelled to say it anyway. 😉 After letting the Linux VM run for several days with memory-hog programs like Firefox (with about a dozen pages …
Speed Demon!
Both the new Solid State Drive (SSD) and the Data Doubler mounting bracket arrived way ahead of schedule — on Thursday afternoon, in fact, a day early for the Data Doubler and at least four days early for the drive itself. I’m not complaining. 🙂 The drive was in OEM packaging, meaning that it was …
Solid State Drives
Solid State Drives. Ridiculously fast. Ridiculously expensive too. I’ve wanted to move to one for years, but one major thing held me back: their longevity. Not only do they fail, but according to both Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky (old-school computer geeks who I highly respect), they fail catastrophically, and in a really, really short …
A Belief-Elimination Vignette
Last Sunday I was out with a friend, and through distraction and inattention I made a dumb and very visible mistake. My friend didn’t seem to feel that it was any big deal, and I quickly corrected it and figured out how to prevent such mistakes in the future, but for the rest of the …
Scammers, Chapter IV
In which the villains finally get their come-uppance. Remember the scammers I talked about several times last year? They didn’t stop, I just stopped reporting on them. We’ve been averaging a call from them every couple weeks since then, all from the “Windows Support Department” or “Windows Technical Service Department” (of what company, they never …
The Power of Beliefs
Playing with some random thoughts recently, I wondered: if the Lefkoe Belief Method can eliminate deep-seated false beliefs from your subconscious mind, is it possible to install new ones that you’ve chosen? It wouldn’t be as straightforward. Given the success of the Lefkoe method, the model of beliefs it proposes is very likely to be …