Eye of India from Benn Berkeley on Vimeo.
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Easter Weekend Links
Here are a few stories to read over your Easter weekend, or if you are lucky enough, spring break:
You won't believe how Nike lost Steph to Under Armour - ESPN
Louisville Is A Grumpy Host as It's Team Sits One Out - New York Times
Low-Budget Leicester's Title Run Nets Fortune for Thai Owner - Bloomberg
With Bees In Trouble, Almond Farmers Try Trees That Don't Need 'Em - The Salt
Ag groups pick up tab for water quality lawsuit defense - Des Moines Register. Farmers have been working hard to make sure we have to be regulated. I just went to my fertilizer certification class which was required because of the Grand Lake St. Mary's and Lake Erie blue-green algae disasters. This Iowa case is directly connected to those.
Ash dieback and beetle attach likely to 'wipe out' ash trees in UK, Europe - the Guardian. Sadly, they are almost gone locally.
The Food Industrial Complex - Priceonomics
My Favorite Part of Easter? Satan and the Harrowing of Hell - Pacific Standard. I remember reading a book in my Intro to Theology class which delved into this little branch of Christian thought. It sought to explain the most inexplicable part of the Christian salvation story, why did Jesus have to come to Earth and die for our sins?
The World's Most Urgent Science Project - The Atlantic
The Secrets of the Wave Pilots - New York Times Magazine
What Engineers Can Learn From the Design of the Penis - The Atlantic
Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream - Huffington Post
Where Did ISIS Come From? The Story Starts Here - Boston Globe
Forget Trump: Here's Who's Really Destroying the Republican Party - Fiscal Times. Jim Jordan and the other Freedom Caucus nuts. As the article mentions, my future congressman is going to join these clowns.
A Most Hated Man - The New Republic. I don't really want to hate Ted Cruz as much as I do, but I think that as the much smarter champion of the Freedom Caucus, he is extremely dangerous.
A Bright Spot for Ted Cruz: State Capitals - Wall Street Journal. See above two articles. Most state legislatures are run by loons just like Jim Jordan. For more evidence of this, look at the North Carolina transgender bathroom freakout this week.
Why Voters Will Stay Angry - Bloomberg
Here's the Stunning Amount of Money Top Wall Street C.E.O.s Made in 2015 - Vanity Fair
Sustainability: Transfer cannot meet China's needs - Nature
You won't believe how Nike lost Steph to Under Armour - ESPN
Louisville Is A Grumpy Host as It's Team Sits One Out - New York Times
Low-Budget Leicester's Title Run Nets Fortune for Thai Owner - Bloomberg
With Bees In Trouble, Almond Farmers Try Trees That Don't Need 'Em - The Salt
Ag groups pick up tab for water quality lawsuit defense - Des Moines Register. Farmers have been working hard to make sure we have to be regulated. I just went to my fertilizer certification class which was required because of the Grand Lake St. Mary's and Lake Erie blue-green algae disasters. This Iowa case is directly connected to those.
Ash dieback and beetle attach likely to 'wipe out' ash trees in UK, Europe - the Guardian. Sadly, they are almost gone locally.
The Food Industrial Complex - Priceonomics
My Favorite Part of Easter? Satan and the Harrowing of Hell - Pacific Standard. I remember reading a book in my Intro to Theology class which delved into this little branch of Christian thought. It sought to explain the most inexplicable part of the Christian salvation story, why did Jesus have to come to Earth and die for our sins?
The World's Most Urgent Science Project - The Atlantic
The Secrets of the Wave Pilots - New York Times Magazine
What Engineers Can Learn From the Design of the Penis - The Atlantic
Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream - Huffington Post
Where Did ISIS Come From? The Story Starts Here - Boston Globe
Forget Trump: Here's Who's Really Destroying the Republican Party - Fiscal Times. Jim Jordan and the other Freedom Caucus nuts. As the article mentions, my future congressman is going to join these clowns.
A Most Hated Man - The New Republic. I don't really want to hate Ted Cruz as much as I do, but I think that as the much smarter champion of the Freedom Caucus, he is extremely dangerous.
A Bright Spot for Ted Cruz: State Capitals - Wall Street Journal. See above two articles. Most state legislatures are run by loons just like Jim Jordan. For more evidence of this, look at the North Carolina transgender bathroom freakout this week.
Why Voters Will Stay Angry - Bloomberg
Here's the Stunning Amount of Money Top Wall Street C.E.O.s Made in 2015 - Vanity Fair
Sustainability: Transfer cannot meet China's needs - Nature
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
A Record Brewing
The United States has more breweries than at any time in history:
Got a hankering for a local beer? You're in luck: There are now more U.S. breweries than at any other point in recorded American history. According to data released today by the Brewers Association, there were 4,269 operating breweries in the country at the end of 2015, surpassing the previous record logged all the way back in 1873 when a lack of transportation and refrigeration meant breweries had to be local.There's no better time to drink local. Prosit!
"Prior to the late 1800s, the market for breweries was essentially the distance a horse drawn cart could travel out and back in a day," Bart Watson, chief economist at the Brewers Association, said in an e-mail. As the invention of refrigerated railcars and pasteurization expanded the range beer could travel, the number of breweries fell rapidly. That is, until the craft beer movement came to life in the 1980s, a trend that has continued to grow for decades....
Big-name beer companies may still churn out more barrels, but small and independent breweries comprise 99 percent of the total breweries in operation by count, according to the Brewers Association. At the end of 2015, there were 2,397 microbreweries, 1,650 brewpubs and 178 regional craft breweries, preliminary data from the not-for-profit trade group show.
Sunday, March 20, 2016
The Drum Doctor
The Drum Doctor from Media Bird on Vimeo.
NASA Photo of the Day
It's been a little while since I've featured the aurora borealis:
A Phoenix Aurora over Iceland
Image Credit & Copyright: Hallgrimur P. Helgason; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
Explanation:
All of the other aurora watchers had gone home.
By 3:30 am in
Iceland,
on a quiet night last September,
much of that night's auroras had died down.
Suddenly though, a new burst of particles streamed down from space, lighting up the
Earth's atmosphere once again.
This time, unexpectedly,
pareidoliacally,
they created an
amazing
shape reminiscent of a giant
phoenix.
With camera equipment at the ready, two quick sky images were taken, followed immediately by a third of the land.
The mountain in the background is
Helgafell,
while the small foreground river is called Kaldá, both located about 30 kilometers north of Iceland's capital
Reykjavik.
Seasoned skywatchers
will note that just above the mountain, toward the left, is the
constellation of Orion, while the
Pleiades
star cluster is also visible just above the frame center.
The new aurora
lasted only a minute and would be gone forever -- possibly dismissed as an
embellished aberration -- were it not captured in the
featured, digitally-composed, image mosaic.
Image Credit & Copyright: Hallgrimur P. Helgason; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
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