Archive for December, 2005

More Global Warming questions

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Along the same lines as my previous post[1], all sorts of people bemoan deforestation as a prime cause of global warming. They do this despite the fact that I have heard some studies suggest that there are actually more trees now than there were in the days of unchecked wildfires before the colonial period. [...]

The Health Benefits of the Sun

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

One of the big curiosities with modern life is the cancer rates. While cancer was not unknown during the early centuries of Western Civilization, it was also, I gather, far from the prevalent cause of death that it is in the modern era. What changed? Is the difference just due to pollution and [...]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

A Merry Christmas to all!!

I am not dead

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

It has been a while since I have posted. I mostly write stuff up, mostly read the stuff I write up, in scraps of time at work while waiting for this or that to compile or download, or simply run. But with the move from Reston to Tyson’s, work has been a mess. We [...]