Archive for 'Query' Category
Why Not Water?
Ok, smart people: EcoGeek talks about Georgia flooding on the YouTubes this week. Why not build water collecting/storing roofs for corporate buildings and parking lots? Seems like a better bang/buck than solar panels, ecologically speaking. The large international corporation that employs me is installing solar panels along with other government approved efforts but I’m wondering […]
Population vs Ice Cap, H20 Content
Occasionally, to give myself some science/math challenge (beyond the last page of Make magazine), I like to attack a multidisciplinary problem that is (a) completely inappropriate for a man of my education, and (b) has probably already been done by someone with the appropriate education. A recent “Believe it or not” cartoon led me to […]
OBT before 40
This is another cross-post from Facebook. I have to find a way to pick/choose Notes that I want to also hit this blog so that I don’t have to do this double-work. I begin to realize that I have never completed anything big in my life, mainly due to my lack of focus — too […]
The Dark Contient
On NPR’s Morning Edition today Renee Montagne made a brief apology for calling Africa “The Dark Continent” on a previous show. According to Wikipedia Dark Continent refers to: A 19th century expression previously used to describe Africa, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. As little was known about the continent’s interior geography, map-makers would often leave this region […]