Holy moly. That trip to Pittsburgh a few weeks ago threw me off way more than I anticipated. I guess that trip combined with a bunch of projects and some changes being made to the small group I made got me distracted. Okay, let’s try to get back on track.
The Stash is only a few items, but that just leaves me more space to blab about each, right?
Starting with some nifty science, it has been discovered that corollation exists between solar flares and small variations in the speed at which radioactive isotopes decay. There’s even evidence for a similar correlation with the period of rotation of the sun’s core. It was thought that these decay rates were pretty much static. Not so much, apparently. These scientists still don’t know the exact reason for this linkage whether it’s neutrinos or some other unknown factor, but it’s a pretty interesting discovery.
In science meets politics we have an example of a big shot movie director, James Cameron, who thinks the climate change “deniers” are crackpots, easily discredited getting scared of actually trying to make good on his claim. He planned a televised debate against one of the producers of Not Evil, Just Wrong, a movie about how climate and environmental junk science is being used to promote bad policies that can result in real harm to real people, particularly in the third world. He then proceeded to back out and cancel the event.
I recently said something similar to Tim Challies here on why I still prefer print books over e-books. I was recently offered the chance to review a tech book, but turned it down because they were going to give me an e-book.
And finally, a laugh. (HT: Lance)
