Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Jonathan Turley on politics in Maine.

- Antarctica and the extreme logistics of human exploration.

- Matt Ridley: We owe our success to two men from Glasgow.

- Kevin Kelly: Some contemporary heresies. Some of these are ridiculous or just outright wrong but I respect putting them forward for public consumption. 

Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- Analysis true!

- Well I found it funny.

- Fun with maps

- Fair is fair

Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- Analysis true!

- Always laugh at this

- A little Christmas humor

- Socialism

Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- Still funny.

- A little economics humor.

- Shouldn't laugh at this (but I did)

- Heh Heh

Funny Because Its True

Linky Links

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

- Interesting Twitter bias test. My Twitter handle was graded as 33% Left, 41% Centrist, and 26% Right. Honestly a bit surprised as I consider myself more Right of Center.  

- Steven Pressfield: Lawrence of Arabia's Private Moment

- Cool - I was a bartender in Antarctica

- Speaking of Cool

- The Maraschino Mogul. Couple years old but story was new to me.

Climate Change

Scientists have detected an enormous cavity growing beneath Antarctica.

When you read the article it seems scientists have no explanation for why this is happening.

Yet this very same website three months ago explained a hidden radioactive heat source seems to be melting East Antarctica from below.

Linky Lnks

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Geothermal heat source seems to be melting Antarctica from below.

- Heh Heh

- Lockheed Martin has started building NASA's X-59 experimental supersonic jet. Cool but why is NASA in the jet business? Isn't their purview space? Is this jet to be part of the new Space Force?

- The 70's were such a more sophisticated time

- This is such a good story. Now do a follow-up on the cadet who gave Bush a chest bump upon graduation.

- Heh Heh

- Started with Antarctic ice - let's end with Arctic ice. And for the record I am not a climate change denier. I am just not a fan of bad or incomplete science.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- I used to know this album forwards and backwards

- Something is melting the ice in Antarctica but surprise - it's not your SUV

- Why President Trump isn't the end of the world. Agree 100% with this..

- Interesting - astronomers struggle to explain "zombie star"

- The best use of 280 characters on Twitter yet

- Strength based exercise can lower all-cause mortality by 23% and cancer based mortality by 31%

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Jon Snow and Ygrette from Game of Thrones are engaged in real life.

- Heh heh

- Cool - design for a new McMurdo Antarctic base

- Perhaps my favorite GIF of all-time

- I absolutely love these

- Awful homeowners association hassles man over street legal upside-down Camaro

- An oral history of the classic Rodney Dangerfield movie Back to School. I loved Rodney.

Arctic and Antarctic Ice Sheets

So the Arctic ice sheets are melting. But the Antarctic ice sheets are growing.

The skeptic in me wonders why the loss of ice mass in the North Pole is attributed to Global Warming (the science is settled) but the explanation for the ice gains in at the South Pole has many theories. Doesn't quite seem like proper science to me.

The historian in me wonders - hasn't this happened before? Isn't the Arctic ice melting before where stories of a semi-mythical Northwest Passage came from? And didn't the opposite effect of the Arctic ice growing so much that the Bering Straits were frozen solid give rise to the theory of that's how the first people originally came to North America come from?

The scientist in me wonders if this might be caused in part by the Earth changing from a magnetic North Pole to a magnetic South Pole. What about the change in Earth's tilt being an explanation? Maybe a combination of both and possibly other factors? Truth is scientists just don't know. More research is needed. But true science is not served if every result needs to be pre-determined to point to a man-made global catastrophe.

The science is not settled. Mankind has just scratched the surface of the science of how our climate works and the history of past changes.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Interesting - the life of a full-time cruise ship passenger. I think this would be cool for a year but not sure if I could make it my full-time life-style.

- Heh heh

- Boston in 1860

- McDonald's vs a Liquor Store - who you got?

- The oral history of how David Ortiz ended up with the Red Sox. Thank God for Pedro Martinez!

- Heh heh

- Cool - space and Antartica

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting and thought I'd share.

- Wow - your webcam is at serious risk. Serious risk!

- I want one of these! A table salt shooting fly shotgun.

- Actual Headline: Swedish Police Searching for Bicycle F*cker

- Aaron Hernandez gets Taiwanese video treatment

- Way cool - the bead chain experiment.

- Fantastic first person article on alcoholism in Antarctica.

- Alan Sepinwall's tremendous appreciation of David Chase's eulogy for James Gandolfini

- Personal Yeezus - Depeche Mode mashed up with Kanye West. I want this song on my iPod.