I was watching a show about Yosemite on NatGeo tonight.  I wasn’t disappointed with the images of that most beautiful place on earth. I was eventually driven to turn it off early, however, by the incessant invoking of the “climate change” and “global warming” twin bogeymen. In the most ridiculous part, a segment was devoted […]

I was watching a show about the fall of the Egypt of the Pharoahs last weekend, and it turns out that it was because of climate change.  Specifically, a 100 year drought saw the Nile stop flowing towards its delta on the Mediterranean, and that did in the once-powerful empire.  More details about the discovery […]

Here’s a heckuva story about the next innovation in unmanned military flight — the self-guided warbird, the X-47B.  Slick — and capable of takeoff from and landing on an aircraft carrier.  And, of course, deadly.

I for one admit I had no idea the Voyager spacecraft were still transmitting, much less still out there learning stuff for us.  Now they’re headed for interstellar space, the first craft of mankind to do so. Yet another h/t to Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.

Here’s a really interesting article announcing the discovery of a new heat-treating method for steel that makes it 7% stronger.  I find two points interesting.  The first is that there’s such a big deal about the discovery being made by a “self-taught metallurgist.”  Aren’t pretty much all the big discoveries made by the self-taught?  And […]

This morning a couple colleagues of mine and I were on our way to fly home from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this morning.  As we got close to the airport, the guy driving nodded forward and asked me, “Is that a Three Mile Island?” I looked ahead and said, “Well, it’s a couple of huge cooling towers for sure.” […]

US reserves of oil and gas are skyrocketing — with gas reserves increasing by the most in history last year, thanks to technology advances. If oil prices remain high, our shale comes into greater economic play, and energy independence becomes nearly fathomable.  (Of course, it’s a very little-known fact that only a relatively small percentage […]

This is Otzi the Iceman: His was the frozen, mummified body found by a German tourist in the Italian Alps back in ’91.  Dutch forensic experts recreated his face using modern forensic techniques. The picture was part of this report, which also reveals that scientists say he died at about 45 years of age. That’s how old I […]

I liked the book.  But it had its problems.  Here’s what I posted on Amazon.  (Not glowing text, but I still rated the book four stars.  Heck, I read the things in just a few days — it must have been good!) This is a really good book. From a science standpoint, it’s a defense […]

Here’s a photoessay about a newly discovered cave in Vietnam.  Amazing.  (Courtesy of Instapundit.)