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Start squirreling away nuts?
[Update: yes, there has been a title change. The old one was stupid.] The other day, some weather geek friends of mine and I were exchanging emails about the early…
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Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
Since we had so much fun with the Military List. Plus, it's Friday. Star Wars The original 1977 theatrical, error-filled release only. Han did shoot first. The storm troopers did…
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For I, James Hansen, Scientist, have spoken
The quotations below are true in spirit. For the original political editorial, click here, which you really should read first. I struggled for a long time to think of an…
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I’ve changed my mind about global warming
The CATO ad is what got me thinking. Maybe the real reason I didn't sign is because I knew that I might be wrong on global warming. And if I…
On tolerance
Conversation was thick at the Cigar Inn today. Mostly over lunatic James W. von Brunnm who walked into Washington, D.C.'s Holocaust museum and murdered guard Stephen T. Johns, who had…
Never too old to learn
I'm at Cornell, teaching my now-annual statistics course to a group who have come up from the city and are there enrolled in a Masters program. Cornell requires students to…
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When zombies were scary
Ronald Reagan said that the ten scariest words in the English language are "Hello, I'm from the government and I'm here to help." In terms of sheer mayhem and spirited…
