This composite image provided by NASA Wednesday Dec. 3, 2008 of the Tycho supernova remnant combines infrared and X-ray observations obtained with NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space observatories, respectively, and the Calar Alto observatory, in Spain. The image shows the remnant of a supernova that was observed in 1572 by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. The explosion has left a blazing hot cloud of expanding debris (green and yellow). The location of the blast's outer shock wave can be seen as a blue sphere of ultra-energetic electrons. Newly synthesized dust in the ejected material and heated pre-existing dust from the area around the supernova radiate at infrared wavelengths of 24 microns (red). Foreground and background stars in the image are white.
Labels: effluvia, energy, science, space
The Large Hadron Collider is nothing to worry about...
Labels: black holes, physics, science, space
Some people believe that they may have glossed over several important civil engineering failures in recent years, including the WTC collapse on 9/11 and the gross failures in NOLA from Hurricaine Katrina.
Labels: 9/11, ASCE, Boston Herald, engineering, Homeland Security, Katrina, science, Spending
Friday Quick Hits
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, effluvia, energy policy, engineering, ethanol, global warming, green, Hillary Clinton, Jewish, science
According to the UK study, antibiotics do nothing for 14 of 15 cases of sinusitis, even when it has been going on for 7-10 days!!!
Labels: BBC, effluvia, medicine, science
Thursday Quick Hits
One post v. many today...just because...
* Great post by
Kos on Clinton's strategy of turning Obama into just another black man and discredit the caucus system. Could not agree more.
* A
great great post on the Burnt Orange Report about stopping with the stupid in what is supposed to be a humerous editorial, but really eviscerates the stupid Hillary talking points strategy in yet another way...one key point is that McCain won CA and NY, so does that mean Hillary and McCain will BOTH win them in a general election fight? Come on, end the stupid, Hills.
* AMERICABlog post on
Ferraro leaving the Hillary campaign now that she's done the dirty work - and we know that she's been race-baiting for several seeks now (see the
Olbermann Special Comment). Speaking of comment,
a comment on the Comment here...and how
Howard Ickes tells a group of supporters that she can only win thorugh SuperDelegates...
* Some
Mark Penn YouTube moment of him doing something Ferraro-ish...
* Two TPM posts about the ugly way that Clinton is slogging her way
through to losing the primaries by throwing all these
harsh bombs, including mailers about Obama's supposed support of Farrakhan because Farrrakhan came out in support of him...?
* A great
Robert Reich post about the coming recession and how it could spiral in to Depression and the coincident nature of our current situation to that of America in 1929-1932...
* the
Space Shuttle docks with the space station...
* Spitzer's , er,
ladyfriend, and Red Sox pitcher Clay Bucholz's
new special ladyfriend...
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, baseball, Bill Clinton, computer, Democrats, effluvia, engineering, Hillary Clinton, Keith Olbermann, science, space
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, blog, climate change, computer, energy policy, engineering, green, John McCain, science, space
