Archives for the 'Climate' Category
Nature Abhors a Gradient
Published on 27 Nov 2007 at 3:54 am.
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Filed under Biology, Climate, Energy, Evolution, Philosophy, Physics, Social Justice.
I recall back to my first days in physics class where I read the quotation “Nature abhors a vacuum”. The phrase was accompanied by an image of two teams of horses trying to pull two hollow hemispheres apart after the air was pumped out from inside.
These were called Magdeburg hemispheres and the experiment was performed by […]
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Animations
Published on 22 Nov 2007 at 12:21 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Climate, Fun, Green, Internet.
I have made some animated gifs that I am putting on this blog’s Animations page.
This is an animation of a rotating Earth, and was constructed from 48 images generated by Celestia. These were then stitched together and optimized using Adobe ImageReady.
Please feel free using these on your own website.
Just remember, they are not for sale […]
Launch of Greener Still
Published on 8 Nov 2007 at 11:54 pm.
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Filed under Biology, Climate, Energy, Entrepreneurship, Green.
Launch of www.greenerstill.com, which is a site focused on keeping our world healthy.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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Encyclopedia of Life
Published on 31 Oct 2007 at 2:32 am.
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Filed under Biology, Birds, Climate, Exploration, Green, Internet, Wildlife.
I recently learned of the project called “Encyclopedia of Life“, which endeavors to create an online encyclopedia featuring every known life form on Earth. From what I can see, this is going to be done in an open access manner.
Sample pages exist for the following organisms:
Death Cap Mushroom (Amanita Phalloides)
Rice (Oryza Sativa)
Yeti Crab (Kiwa Hirsuta)
and […]
Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize
Published on 13 Oct 2007 at 12:37 am.
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Filed under Climate, Green.
Today Al Gore, along with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, won the Nobel Peace Prize. Naturally, conversation has turned to whether he will run for president.
Al Gore has risen far above such a position. His world has become bigger than just America, and his role in the grand scheme of things is now […]
