For those interested in some of the mechanics for why Sandy wound up being such a (comparatively) violent storm and some suggestions as to how likely it is to happen in the future…
How the Frankenstorm came to life
Sandy …
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Why bullet-proof materials work
Plastic fantastic seals in speeding projectiles
Layered polymer nanomaterial wraps around penetrating particles
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346099/title/Plastic_fantastic_seals_in_speeding_projectiles
To me this is really interesting, beyond the raw science, as a way to potentially build better shields for spacecraft. My understanding of current space craft …
Evidence that the economy shrinks as the rich get richer
I have babbled about how the rich actually have a negative incentive to bolster the economy; well at Jared Bernstein’s blog (I am a regular reader) he provides a graph that I think seals the case (from this post: “…
For the crime of being Muslim
US Muslim placed on no-fly list is unable to see his ailing mother
Despite never having been charged with any crime, an Air Force veteran is effectively exiled from his own country
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/05/muslim-no-fly-qatar
I know I talked about easing up …
“Nobel” prize in economics
Actually, it is the “Swedish Central Bank Prize in Economic Sciences” that was created “in memory” of Alfred Nobel…
The Nobel Prize in Economics? There Is No Nobel Prize in Economics
http://exiledonline.com/the-nobel-prize-in-economics-there-is-no-nobel-prize-in-economics/
Any of this sound familiar?
…Promoters of central
Doing my small part
I don’t have that many reader(s), but felt that I would do my tiny part in promgulating yet another instance of partisian involvement in the operation of supposed non-partisan arms of the government…
Republican Pressure Leads to Withdrawal of Fact-Based …
Tain’t the global warming, stupid!
I wasn’t going to comment on Sandy and its depredations along the coast but after seeing article after article (or perhaps the exact same article hawked at many places, I never actually read any of it) babbling about how Sandy …
Third-party candidates
I wasn’t able to work on this yesterday (I stayed home) because ever since I upgraded my machine to Ubuntu 12 I have had random freezes when I surf the web (not always associated with web surfing, once it hung …
Green Party, Jill Stein
This is one post in a series looking at the various third-party candidates. For a summary, please see here
Jill Stein’s positions overall appear to be rather unrealistic given that, if elected, she would have to work with a Congress …
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson
This is one post in a series looking at the various third-party candidates. For a summary, please see here
Gary Johnson started out as a GOP candidate but when he failed to get any traction in the primaries he decided …