Elon Musk and Alan Stern teamed up for a public event sponsored by University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) 10 days ago (April 29). With the caveat that I'm not as versed in New Space as I am "old space" (what do you call the space program as we know it…
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The CU Center for Environmental Journalism forwarded a note with this link this morning, to a Wired.com article about how Al Gore and Push Up Press are aiming to "blow up the book." As someone who recently wrote a book and then converted it into Kindle and ePub formats, this caught my attention. Push Up…
To confirm a single statistic I wanted to share about a year after BP's Gulf oil disaster, which killed 11 men and countless creatures and spewed an estimated 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf over 86 days, I stopped by a cool/chill/rad web site that slices and dices CIA Factbook data.
I was curious…
President Obama's remarks on fiscal policy today put forth a few numbers worth committing to memory before the forthcoming, protracted budget debates:
"So here’s the truth. Around two-thirds of our budget -- two-thirds -- is spent on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and national security. Two-thirds. Programs like unemployment insurance, student loans, veterans’ benefits, and tax credits…
I checked the output of our rooftop solar panels just now, at 11:28 a.m. On a sunny, brisk Denver day (briskness doesn't affect solar output), our 13 east-facing 220-watt panels were cranking out 2,476 watts, according to the inverter in the garage. Wife's got the dryer running, but I'd assume we're still feeding power back…