More sloppy security at federal laboratory, this time in Richland, Wash., leads to suspension of classified work at the facility. What, I wonder, is so crucial to national security at this site that focuses not on nuclear weapons design like Los Alamos, but environmental science?
Daily Archives: 10 Jul 00
Something I was reading mentioned that J.K. Rowling was being passed over this year for two of the most prestigious children’s book awards, the Carnegie and the Whitbread, so I decided to search for the current winners. Imagine my surprise when I hit upon this page linking to major children’s book awards. There are dozens of them! I’m going to be hardpressed to be impressed again, browsing for books for my children, when one of them catches my eye because of that goldleaf this-or-that-medal embossed on the cover.
First-person account of first documented case of cryogenic ingestion; soon to be a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine, reportedly.
Official Darwin Awards. The July newsletter is out. “They were both trained. The
manager and the customer told him not to, but he did it anyway.”
Cold Facts of Global Warming. New York Times op-ed piece captures what I’ve felt for a long time; that those denying global warming have their heads in the sand, and the sand is getting hotter and hotter.
Ambulances patrolled streets in southern Romania to pick up
some of the many individuals who fainted in temperatures
that were well over 100 degrees. Soldiers were deployed in
western Bulgaria to fight a major forest fire. At least 10
people were reported dead from the heat in Turkey. Intense
fires raged on a number of islands in the Aegean. And
wildfires in Italy consumed hundreds of acres of forest in the
southern Gargano region.No single weather event can be attributed to global
warming. But this is the kind of terrible weather that
scientists have long predicted would accompany the
warming of the planet. That warming is not only well under
way, it is accelerating.
Email Forwards. Archive of those chainletters and useless emails that your friends think they’re doing you a favor by forwarding to you.
