Who knew that not receiving the coveted “tenure” at a university could lead to a shooting rampage? Evidently, Amy Bishop, a professor of Biology, shot three of her colleagues at the University of Alabama at Huntsville (sounds like she didn’t like the
Category: Engineering
A Tunnel Beneath Haifa
The Israelis used a Chinese company to build a 9km tunnel beneath Haifa… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0gvgTvKEu4[/youtube]
The Difference in 100 Years
This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year is 1909… One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes. Here are some statistics for the Year 1909 ***************************** The average life expectancy was 47 years.
A Practical Approach to Airport Security
With the recent “Underweargate” experience (i.e., the Moslem hiding explosives in his underwear during a flight to Detroit), people are losing any sense of respect for the TSA screening process. Naturally, I’ve had many people ask me: “DZ, how do the
Things aren’t Quite What They Seem
Courtesy of List Universe: 1. A firefly is not a fly – it is a beetle 2. A prairie dog is not a dog – it is a rodent 3. India ink is not from India – it is from
The “Settled” Climate Science
I recently had a discussion with a colleague about the “settled” climate debate… She claimed that there was a consensus among scientists that man is responsible for global warming. I pointed out that there are a preponderance of “deniers” including
O’bama’s EPA Further Interfering in Our Freedoms
So what do you think of the notion that creating CO2 (i.e., breathing) is now considered pollution that is regulated by the EPA? Charles Krauthammer wrote a pertinent editorial in the Washington Post. A few excerpts: The raid on the
A “Before” and “After” View of Temperature Variations
The graph below show a “before” (with the UN data manipulation) and “after” (removing the fudge) view of historical temperature variations… It sort of casts things in a different light (bear in mind that temperature measurements prior to the 20th
How Do You Answer the Phone?
“Hello” wasn’t always the first thing people said when they answered the phone. After the first proper phone service was started in the US in 1878, people said “Ahoy”. Hmm… I’ll have to give that a try.