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AudioQ SDC2.5 vs RE Audio SE Are these subwoofers comparable? AudioQ is cheaper, has 2.5" coils, 600rms. The Re Audio has 3" Coils, 600rms and ~$50 more. Which one of these subwoofers would produce more output on 900rms and which one would sound better doing it?
Post Date:02/02/2010 02:36:20
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Fair & Balanced Humorous proof that there aren’t two sides to every issue.
Post Date:02/01/2010 19:25:48
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Positive Warming Feedback Exists, but Not as Severe as Earlier Estimates A new study from the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, whose data is based on natural swings in temperatures from 1050-1800, indicated that a rise of one degree Celsius (1.6 degree Fahrenheit) would increase carbon dioxide concentrations by about 7.7 parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere, which is well below recent projections of 40 ppm, which would be a much stronger boost to feared climate changes such as floods, desertification, wildfires, rising sea levels and more powerful storm, according to the Reuters article. The experts made 220,000 comparisons of carbon dioxide levels -- trapped in tiny bubbles in annual layers of Antarctic ice -- against temperatures inferred from natural sources such as tree rings or lake sediments over the years 1050-1800. Hugues Goosse of the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium said the study refined a general view that rising temperatures amplify warming from nature even though some impacts are likely to suck carbon dioxide from the air.
Post Date:02/01/2010 07:11:34
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Too Early To Do Global Warming?s Autopsy Glenn Reynolds is linking to what amounts to a post mortem of the campaign for global warming. The short story: ?The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics.? We think it’s too early to pop the champagne corks, but it’s certainly looking good. Who knows, maybe we can put this blog on the shelf to collect dust. Here’s a reminder of our hope/prediction from a few months ago.
Post Date:02/01/2010 07:03:42
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Science Art: Dragon Lake, Siberia Click to embiggen vastly This is Dragon Lake, a body of very cold water near the city of Bratsk. It’s a reservoir, like Arizona’s Lake Powell, formed by the damming of a river, in this case, the Angara River. Over time, all those intricate white crackles will soften and fade as the lake makes itself comfortable in its banks. But for now, it’s still new and electric. Image courtesy of USGS National Center for EROS and NASA Landsat Project Science Office, from the wonderful Our Earth As Art gallery.
Post Date:01/31/2010 11:51:31
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My Eighth Grade Son Did Better Science I cannot believe that we skeptics have caught grief from these folks for years for our science not being sufficiently peer-reviewed.
Post Date:01/31/2010 09:13:34
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Solar-powered sea slug harnesses stolen plant genes It’s the ultimate form of solar power: eat a plant, become photosynthetic. Now researchers have found how one animal does just that. Elysia chlorotica is a lurid green sea slug, with a gelatinous leaf-shaped body, that lives along the Atlantic seaboard of the US. What sets it apart from most other sea slugs is its ability to run on solar power. Mary Rumpho of the University of Maine, is an expert on E. chlorotica and has now discovered how the sea slug gets this ability: it photosynthesises with genes “stolen” from the algae it eats. New Scientist: Solar-powered sea slug harnesses stolen plant genes (via WTF Nature) Related posts:Massive solar thermal installation system being built – enough to power San Francisco? UFO shaped, solar powered water purifiers in Japan New carnivorous plant big enough to eat rats
Post Date:01/30/2010 12:58:59
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More on the Color Struck and Obsessions with Blue Eyes in Blacks
Post Date:01/30/2010 09:38:00
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Oh, I found you a new job I thought you might be interested in this job advert from the Independent. It’s from the nice people at Maperton Trust. You can go and see them for a diagnosis with their magical machines, although the best product is their Head Lice Repelling Unit or HELRU (right) which various people have emailed me about over the years, [...]
Post Date:01/29/2010 18:56:33
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Hands-On Guide to Video Blogging And Podcasting: Emerging Media Tools for Business Communication For all of your video and audio blogging business and professional communication needs, this book is it! The Hands-on Guide to Video Blogging and Podcasting provides tremendous value to those content publishers, big and small, that want to create syndicated video blog and podcast content. The simplified, plain talking break-down the authors bring to [...]
Post Date:01/29/2010 10:30:44
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Weird Things in Coffee One man’s quest to go beyond the usual cream-and-sugar routine for that morning fix of caffeine. For example: “The long tradition of putting egg in coffee caught my attention. John Steinbeck once wrote: ?I cracked an egg and cupped out the yolk and dropped white and shells into the pot, for I know nothing that polishes coffee and makes it shine like that.? Me, I?ve learned a few things in my time, for example: 1) Don?t argue with John Steinbeck; and 2) Shiny things kick ass.”
Post Date:01/29/2010 06:33:41
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Fun Bridge Design Contest West Point, our nation's first engineering school, is sponsoring its 9th Annual Bridge Design Contest. Students aged 13 though 12th grade can participate, with a chance to win a $5000 scholarship or a laptop computer.Contestants (individuals or teams of 2) will download free, easy-to-use software to design a bridge--further details are available at bridgecontest.usma.edu. The contest ends in March, so have your students start now!"West Point provides this contest as a service to education--and as a tribute to the Academy's two centuries of service to the United States of America."
Post Date:01/28/2010 18:09:00
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Is fusion success in sight? LLNL At the National Ignition Facility, the power of 192 lasers will be focused on a gold-plated cylinder like this one, containing a pea-sized pellet of fusion fuel. Experiments at the National Ignition Facility have given researchers confidence that they'll achieve a milestone in nuclear fusion sometime this year. The tests involved blasting a cylinder the size of a pencil eraser, known as a "hohlraum," with 192 laser beams and seeing whether researchers could tweak the energy to create the right kind of implosion. The results suggested that they could - and that the $3.5 billion blaster in California just might produce the world's first controlled fusion reaction, with more energy coming out than going in....(read more)
Post Date:01/28/2010 15:32:00
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We Are Here Know your place in the universe.
Post Date:01/28/2010 13:25:00
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More ?Settled Science? From the Times in London via Planet Gore: THE United Nations climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods. It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected to routine scientific scrutiny — and ignored warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting the link too weak. The report’s own authors later withdrew the claim because they felt the evidence was not strong enough. The claim by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that global warming is already affecting the severity and frequency of global disasters, has since become embedded in political and public debate. It was central to discussions at last month’s Copenhagen climate summit, including a demand by developing countries for compensation of $100 billion (
Post Date:01/25/2010 10:20:03
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Fake but Accurate I have written a number of times about climate science and post-modernism, where taking the politically correct position and pushing for the “right” government actions is more important than fact-based analysis or the scientific method.
Post Date:01/24/2010 09:18:08
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The extraordinary imperative of life I often read George Will with dismay as he ends his articles so abruptly with a small point after beginning his pieces making a large one. In this one, he throws in some superfluous stuff about the Founding Fathers late in the game but the overall text is a beautiful picture of our amazing universe. Part of his last line: "...the fact that flora and fauna have survived Earth's episodes of extreme violence testifies to the extraordinary imperative of life."I liked that.http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
Post Date:01/03/2010 18:51:00
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Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change Over the summer, I read Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change by Pat Murphy. Since the year is drawing to a close, this will be my final review for the Science Book Challenge. I'll start off with an overview of each section of the book and finish with my recommendations.Part I of the book does a good job of describing peak oil and climate change, and why it will have enormous impacts on human society. The author discusses economic growth fueled by cheap energy, wars fought for, and with, petroleum, the coming end of the private car, why alternative energy will not be enough to maintain our current American way of life, and how corporations and the media have manipulated public perception of the truth.In Part II, the author pleads the case for personal change as the way to save humanity. Cheap energy and too much stuff have led to our excessive use of resources; the only way to reduce use of resources is by curtailing our consumerism. One chapter discusse
Post Date:12/28/2009 15:30:00
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Harvard delays Allston construction, campus development The University will halt construction on its Allston science complex, and?significantly?revisit plans for campus development more broadly.
Post Date:12/10/2009 10:52:37
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The New York Public Library Presents the First Annual New York StartUP! Business Plan Competition fo   The New York Public Library in conjunction with its sponsor, Citi Foundation, is launching the First Annual New York StartUP! Business Plan Competition. The program will give aspiring entrepreneurs the opportunity to bolster their business acumen. Entrants will gain practical insights about starting and growing a business, while learning about the rich small business resources at The New York Public Library’s Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL) located at 188 Madison Avenue at 34th Street. Judges will decide the winners by evaluating each plan based on its content, including the thoroughness and quality of the analysis, use of information, and clear communication. Winners will receive cash prizes, with a first place reward of $15,000. There will be two second place rewards of $5,000 each; Three Merit Awards for $750 each; and Three Honorable Mentions for $500 each.  Full competition details are available at smallbiz.nypl.org “The New Yor
Post Date:12/09/2009 10:15:38
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