Augmented Fear of Heights « Games Alfresco

God, I\’d love to try this. I have a mild case of \”fear of heights\”, so I think this would be interesting & nerve racking at the same time… Augmented Fear of Heights « Games Alfresco: \”Those crazy kids at Georgia Tech. In the last couple of days, we have seen augmented reality used to […]

18 cool sites and apps that teach you about space

Few topics interest me more than space. Though I\’ll admit that I don\’t know nearly as much as I would like, it has always been my goal to learn about the universe. I bet I\’m not alone. That\’s why I\’m sharing this list of 18 space sites. They all offer something neat. And they\’re all […]

Are Record Temperatures Abnormal?

Consider a hypothetical country with 1,000 top notch weather stations and the perfect unchanging climate (which our AGW friends imagine used to exist before they were born.)   During the first year of operations, every station will necessarily set a high and a low temperature record on every day of the year.   That is […]

Why Is The Sun Getting Dimmer? – No sunspots?

\”The sun seems to have broken out of its traditional 11-year cycle, and in the process, made scientists suspicious by being just a little too relaxed and uneventful recently. What\’s going on?\” (View the rest of the article at io9 – Why Is The Sun Getting Dimmer? – No sunspots)

The Left Hand Knows Not What The Right Hand is Doing

Last weeks’ top Antarctic AGW story was : Antarctic ice melting faster than expected due to CO2, of course. This week the #1 story is : Antarctic ice spreading but the increase in size is due to “stratospheric ozone depletion” which is of course also caused by man-made gases. So Antarctic ice is disappearing faster […]