tl;dr – correlation is not causation.
I’m writing this post with a little more haste than is my wont. I’ve received dozens of e-mails asking me to comment on the recent news — ala the the New York Times — that meat-eating apparent…
Meat, it does a body good :)
One portion of red or processed meat a day increases our risk of dying screamed the headlines. Zoe Harcombe looks at the raw data and the facts
Money quote: "From the mid-1980s to 2005, California's population grew by 10 million, while Medicaid recipients soared by seven million; tax filers paying income taxes rose by just 150,000; and the prison population swelled by 115,000."
Yes, Virginia, you always do run out of other people's money.
In The Wall Street Journal, Stanford professors Michael Boskin and John Cogan write that no one should write off the Golden State, but it will take massive reforms to reverse its economic decline.
I suppose it springs from the general adage that liberals think conservatives are pure evil, and conservatives think liberals are pure silly.
Pew Center study finds liberals react more aggressively on social networking sites
So the liberal media is eulogizing Sherwood Rowland, dead at age 84, and praising him for saving the world from the evils of freon and the catastrophe of an ozone hole.
Except, he was wrong. But don't let hard science get in the way of a compelling environmentalist narrative, right? :)
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow Dr. Will Happer of Princeton wrote “The Montreal Protocol to ban freons was the warm-up exercise for the IPCC. Many current IPCC players gained fame t…
Ah, the Mighty Monckton :)
Monckton vanquishes Union College “Greens too yellow to admit they’re really Reds†Guest post by Justin Pulliam THE NEWS that Lord Monckton was to give his “Climate of Freedom†lecture at…
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. :)
In June 1986, Dr. James Hansen made a prediction to a newspaper reporter in Oxnard, CA of a 2 degree temperature rise by 2006. This was two years before, almost to the day before he and Senator T…
Ah history, the gift that keeps giving :)
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Under the radar, and un-noticed by many climate scientists, there was a recent study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), commissioned by the US Government,……
So it looks like I'll be playing some Cyberpunk 2020, so I figured I'd automate the whole LifePath generation. I built some java code and wrapped in in a cgi shell script here: https://krischel.org/lifepath.cgi
You can download the jar (which will run as a swing application) from here: https://krischel.org/lifepath-0.9.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar
If there's any interest, I can put the source code somewhere public.
Cyberpunk 2020 LifePath Generator. =====Origins And Style Clothes: Miniskirts Hairstyle: Tinted Affectations: Long fingernails Ethnicity: Hispanic American Language: Spanish =====Motivations Personali…
Quoted for truth.
If you’ve ever fought someone much bigger and stronger than you, then you learn some lessons quickly or you perish. If you stand your ground, they’ll destroy you, because they’re just so muc…
Using built in iSight for video, and an M-audio Nova, running through an M-audio Fast Track Pro, for audio.
Had to do some tricky stuff to get it audio monitoring right – I had FCPX "record" on (usually used for voice overs), with the monitor set to hit my headphones, but I didn't record there. I did "Import from Camera" from the iSight in FCPX straight the first time, and although it only recorded on the left channel (there were no settings to tell it the audio was a mono signal), I was able to play back the recorded video in a Quicktime Player window, and do "Import from Camera" again for the overdubs. There was some latency, which stopped me from doubling the uke (I kept falling out of time with the video), but vocals seemed to work out okay.
Enjoy!
Kevin Fisher’s “Because of Love”, done uke style by Jere Krischel. Don’t forget to pick up Kevin’s a
Not something I'd ever care to do myself, but that there marine has the biggest, brassiest balls I've seen in a while.
Don't ask, don't care :)
A photo of a male Marine kissing his partner at a homecoming in Hawaii is drawing overwhelming support and a few detractors on the Facebook page where it was posted over the weekend.
Congratulations to "Watts Up With That" for the double win!
The twelfth year of the Web’s longest running blog awards. Discover the best blogs of 2012.
Busted.
Quick! Hide the evidence!
Gleick’s grants from EPA get Stalinized from the EPA Grants Database. Here’s the timeline: Yesterday at 11:41 am we reported that EPA has awarded Peter Glieck’s Pacific Institute $468,000 i……