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Wunderground’s cool “Evidence for Climate Change” tab

Gotta hand the folks at Wunderground some credit on this one – I love their “Climate Change” tab, and especially the way they have organized the evidence for climate change. Hats off to you! http://www.wunderground.com/climate/evidence.asp?MR=1

Wunderground’s cool “Evidence for Climate Change” tab

Photo: The Plaza of the Wailing Wall

Photo: The Plaza of the Wailing Wall

Photo: Children at Play on the Rooftops

Photo: Children at Play on the Rooftops

Photo: Minaret

Photo: Minaret

♬All by myself / In a meeting room / All by myself♬ (international collaboration is lonely when everyone…

♬All by myself / In a meeting room / All by myself♬ (international collaboration is lonely when everyone else is on the phone…) This was posted on Google+…

♬All by myself / In a meeting room / All …

Photo: Ornate Designs inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Photo: Ornate Designs inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

The Coming of Pump.io

Many years ago, I opted to give the federated social web a try. I was impressed by platforms like Twitter and, later, Facebook, but unimpressed by the “walled garden” attitude of many of those platforms (that includes Google+, where I am presented composing this entry). For my primary social web […]

The Coming of Pump.io

Kills cancer cells in a petri dish

Kills cancer cells in a petri dish Thank-you, XKCD, for putting this favorite line of many newspapers (“Kills cancer cells in a petri dish”) in perspective. +Ben Goldacre would be proud, I hope… 🙂 http://xkcd.com/1217/ xkcd: Cells ; >|. Permanent link to this comic: http://xkcd.com/1217/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cells.png. Selected […]

Kills cancer cells in a petri dish

Photo: A Market Not for the Claustrophobic

Photo: A Market Not for the Claustrophobic

The Cockcroft-Walton Koffler particle accelerator at the Wiezmann Institute of Science.

The Cockcroft-Walton Koffler particle accelerator at the Wiezmann Institute of Science. This was posted on Google+…

The Cockcroft-Walton Koffler particle accelerator at the Wiezmann Institute of Science.

The plaza in front of the exposed section of the Western Wall of the second Jewish Temple (the "Wailing Wall"). Visible in the panorama is the Mount of Olives and various key locations in Jewish and Muslim theology, including the place of resurrection of all Jews and both Jewish (Gehenna) and Muslim hells (Jahannam).

During this week’s ATLAS Experiment Beyond-the-Standard Model Higgs working group meeting in Israel, our hosts at the Weizmann Institute of Science organized an afternoon and evening trip to Jerusalem. Jerusalem is about 45 minutes from Rehovot, so we boarded a bus around 14:00 and arrived in Jerusalem about an hour […]

Intersections in space but not in time – an afternoon …

A view south across the Weizmann Institute of Science

Photo: A view of the Weizmann Institute of Science

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    I had forgotten how much easier and better it is to write a signature using tables and text organization using #Thunderbird and not Outlook. […]
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    My effort to migrate my work email experience from Outlook to #Thunderbird is going quite well. I had to deal early on with Thunderbird […]

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