This excellent (and long!) article from the Hudson Review, written by Bruce Bawer, explores European anti-Americanism through a survey of recent books on the topic. I highly recommend it.
Methane harvester: new job description
The U.S. announces plans to work with at least seven other coutnries to harvest methane emissions as fuel, reducing global-warming pollution. Of course, that’s instead of, not in addition to, working harder to limit carbod dioxide emissions, so there’s still a ways to go, but it’s a grand idea, nonetheless.
Start the countdown!
The SpaceShipOne team has given its official 60-day notice and scheduled its first X-prize competition flight for September 29–and the Da Vinci Project has announced it will roll out its completed Wildfire spacecraft on August 5 in Toronto, and is still looking toward launches this fall–at Kindersley, right here in Saskatchewan. Cool!
Writing Diary: July 27, 2004
Having prepared my science column for online subscribers and the Leader Post last night, today was devoted to tech-editing of a computer book for Wiley. Fortunately, it’s very clean (written by someone who knows far more about the topic than I do!) and I had very few comments to make, so I managed to get …
It’s not what it looks like…
It’s a picture of Saturn’s moon Mimas from Cassini-Huygens…we hope.
Writing Diary: July 26, 2004
Today was a science column day; the column (on rogue waves) is already online below. Best thing about it on the radio today was that the crack CBC Afternoon Edition team had the wit to play There’s Got to Be a Morning After from The Poseidon Adventure following the segment! Spent the afternoon tech-editing three …
Rogue waves
Lots of people who are afraid to fly think nothing of taking long ocean cruises. They might think again in the wake of the European Space Agency’s report this week that rogue waves are far more common than anyone ever expected. Rogue waves are monster, ship-smashing walls of water that rise to seemingly impossible heights, …
Interview with Dr. Jack Williamson
Check out this interview with legendary science fiction writer Dr. Jack Williamson, from this morning’s Morning Edition program on CBC Radio One in Saskatchewan.
So, you’d rather take the boat than the plane?
It turns out monster rogue waves are far more common than thought–and probably account for far more ship disappearances than thought.
That ain’t hay
In an Op-Ed on abortion in The New York Times : Barbara Ehrenreich writes: I was a dollar-a-word freelancer and my husband a warehouse worker, so it was all we could do to support the existing children at a grubby lower-middle-class level. Ignoring the insult to those who are or were lower-middle-class–grubby? Not in the …
I’m pleased to hear this
Looks like they’re going to finish the space station after tall. Good news…as long as it doesn’t slow down the march to the Moon and Mars. Look, folks, we need it all, all right? More of everything in space. Including, I dearly hope, me someday.
Reading Diary: July 23, 2004
Well, we did very little reading of The Amber Spyglass this week, and I still haven’t finished Red Thunder, so not a great week for reading. (Oh, sure, I read tonnes of stuff on the Internet every day, but that’s not real reading…is it?) I did finish the new Discover. And browsed other mags that …
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