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A Time To Celebrate!

I am, once more, reliving my Air Force days. I am strapped into a seat designed for a midget, jetting across the Wild Blue towards the shores of Lake Michigan,…
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Artificial photosynthesis

I don't normally get excited about "Advances in Science" papers, but everything now and then it's fun to let your imagination play. Thus, I recommend this article about an MIT…
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Start squirreling away nuts?

[Update: yes, there has been a title change. The old one was stupid.] The other day, some weather geek friends of mine and I were exchanging emails about the early…
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Never too old to learn

I'm at Cornell, teaching my now-annual statistics course to a group who have come up from the city and are there enrolled in a Masters program. Cornell requires students to…
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Stinky Tofu

It's time for a science experiment! In a large plastic bag, collect the following: the solid bits from the kitty litter, or the equivalent output from Fido, a week's worth…