May 2012 Blog Posts (13)

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The world's biodiversity is down 30 percent since the 1970s, according to a new report, with tropical species taking the biggest hit. And if humanity continues as it has been, the picture could get bleaker.

Humanity is outstripping the Earth's resources by 50 percent — essentially using…

by Marco Miranda Sr

The location of the Pretoria Hilton is unique. On one side you have the interminable plains of the southern savannah, on the other the majestic range of the Transvaal and all around it,…

Fracking Hollenbeck Gas Site…

and how fitting that Japanese tsunami debris washes up on U.S. shores yesterday.  So symbolic.  Japan's outmoded/outdated fission-based nuclear reactors at Fukushima (Westinghouse boiling water nuclear reactor stuff) go tits up, contaminate (and continue to do so) the Earth's atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean with radioactive material, and these two balls from Japan show up on U.S. shores....like "the balls in our court" or something! What's our energy game plan now?  And don't tell me it's…

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“Mitt, I still do not understand why you insist on trying to become elected president of this great nation. I know it is not money, then what?”

He smiled and replied:

“You have not changed. You still miss the substance, the nerve, the foundation of current political thought. My greatest concern in…

Smile,please



I am certain that God invented the first smile on

planet earth. After toiling for several days in

gathering cosmic dust, rocks, sands and a bit of

burning lava that he had picked up in his last

tour of this part of the universe, he flung this

shapeless chunk of stuff around the big furnace

in the firmament. There was some interplay

between momentum, gravitational attraction,

intergalactic dust drag,…

Recent disclosures  about serious abuses of power committed by members of our government and also by prominent members of our comfortable business class has everyone confused, except those who lost their savings, their pension plans, shares, mortgages, inheritances, options, bonuses and other forms of legitimate avarice. They are simply pissed.

Now, how did this thing happen? You get all kind of versions. Executives blame each other on alternate days; the…

The "First Law of Thermodynamics" states (paraphrased) that energy can neither be created nor destroyed....only transformed from one form to another.

Formally Stated:

The first law of thermodynamics asserts that energy must be conserved in any process involving the exchange of heat and work between a system and its surroundings.

The "Second Law of Thermodynamics" puts a less-than-100% upper limit on the percentage of a given form of energy that can be converted into other…

I met with Sen. Ayotte tonight at a town hall meeting. She has voted against the amendment that S 1782 that would have made the Nat Gas act a part of the highway transportation bill. She is opposed to the act because she does not want the government to favor on particular fuel over another. I asked that she change her view since the benfits of Nat gas far put weigh her politicak point of view. We all need to put pressure on our elected officials to pass this act. It is becoming a political…