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Science Magazine: Stuart Wills
From the Science Now section of Science Magazine, Wills discusses research that could slow down global warming long enough to give humans a chance to reduce carbon emissions enough to make a difference in climate. Courtesy the the Science Magazine Podcast.
Professor Richard Alley
Dr. Alley talks about how scientists use ice cores to read climate, and comments on the previous news story about slowing down global warming.
Book Review
Phillip Manning of Scibooks reviews Why Conservation is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground, by Eric Freyfogle
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A brain cell versus the universe
Take action to help save the so-called "Tripoli Six" medical workers facing the death penalty in Libya for accidentally infecting children with dirty needles carrying HIV. Thank you to the Nature Podcast, September 21, 2006, for providing the audio clip.
Shout Outs
Rhyse
PowerPoint Samauri (who both liked the music last week)
James (who I swear to that one day I will remember to include his great sweating info)
Diversions
Ultra Deep Field images from the Hubble Telescope "The deepest view into the sky by humankind to date."
A brain cell versus the universe
UPDATE: A listener (Greg) sent in this link to a nearly complete transcript of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
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For those that are interested more in ice core data, a substantial amount is available through the (United States) National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. See http://www.nsidc.org.
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Bruce Wilson, at 8:32 AM
Your comment in the book review about homeowner associations standing in the way really resonated with me. We're looking to buy a new house over the next couple of years, and the number of places where we can't put a clothesline in the back yard is really distressing. My wife really likes to hang clothes out to dry and we love the smell of sheets that have dried on the line. This is clearly an ecofriendly thing to do, but is often prohibited as "unsightly". Get a grip folks!!
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Bruce Wilson, at 8:45 AM
Mingon mentioned the "next to it" phenomenon, where you're in a library, pick up an item, and notice that you're also interested in the item next to it. She mentioned that she thought that didn't happen anymore.
I think it still does, for a couple of reasons.
First, I think a lot of ideas still come from people reading through journals, and the article before or after the one they really wanted to read has some nugget that catches their attention. This happens
with aggregators, too, particularly if you tend to aggregate across multiple feeds, and scan your headlines with an eye toward making the phenomenon happen.
Second, I find that a significant fraction of my searches, be they Google or a journal or proceedings website search, return results that might fit the "next to it" model pretty well.
It takes a little alertness to the possibility of stumbling across an interesting result, and willingness to look at the "wrong" result next to the one you actually trying to find, but it can still happen .
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