Following up on Yesterday’s post.
Arctic sea ice delusions strike the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph. The The Guardian takes down its UK competition, with a sub-head that neatly summarizes the issue:
Both UK periodicals focus on short-term noise and ignore the rapid long-term Arctic sea ice death spiral
David Rose and his tabloid “reporting” of Arctic sea ice and other nonsense looks at the story and includes a graphic showing the change in the Arctic over 33 years:
From Locus
Physicists, like the ancient Greeks, like to gossip about the gods. A few days ago, three physicists* were talking on Twitter** about a review by a fourth physicist, Freeman Dyson, of a biography of one of these gods, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and about his war with another one, John Archibald Wheeler.
Irish Class, August 19, 2013
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I sometimes see this license plate on a sports car in the parking lot at my bus stop.
I first read L. Sprague de Camp’s SF classic Lest Darkness Fall (written in 1939) more than 40 years ago. It still has not grown old. Tonight I ran across this passage:
From the transcript of the Apollo 10 Flight
Celebrating France’s First Resistance Fighter
Of course, they are celebrating him now in a Romance rather than a Celtic language.
From Explorator
