This short story will bring a tear, here's the link. The ineffable sadness and beauty of mortality.   more »

Energy industry organized rallies to fight climate change legislation and renewable energy are right on track according to this article on Grist. The healthcare townhall here with our congressman was packed, all the front rows, with wing nuts and insurance and hospital corporation employees repeating "death panel" talking points. Most were tourists from other districts and even other states. Expect the same on every other issue, some wing nuts even went off into anti-GHG climate change talking point delayer/denier rants. Congressmen will not even hold meetings on climate legislation, they were scared off by talking point attacks on healthcare.   more »

A great video on Grist from Umbra. She's very utube-genic in her bee suit. Plus an article all about colony collapse disorder (CCD), it's probable causes and possible cures. Here's my prescription:   more »

I have blogged about this strange theoretical invention before. Here is another more detailed view of exactly how a device would work that uses a tacyon stream to send internet signals into the past. Actually how this would work is that the moment the first of these devices that accelerate tacyons beyond the speed of light is activated, the operator would start to receive signals from his future self. Google the future? Well yes, a google search would be initiated, then the scientist, in the future time targeted by the search would send the search results into the time machine on the tacyon stream. The result, gathered in the future, would immediately appear in present time.   more »

A list of the blue dog dems on the energy and commerce comittee holding up our healthcare. Call them and tell them how you feel about their campaign "contributions" from mega-corporate healthcare industry lobbyists. The key 8: Congressman Charlie Wilson (OH-6) http://www.charliewilson.house.gov/ Mike Ross (D-AR)202 225-3772, 870 881-0681 http://ross.house.gov/index.html Rep. Charlie Melancon of Louisiana 202 225-4031 http://www.melancon.house.gov/ Bart Stupak (MI) - 202 225-4735 http://www.house.gov/stupak/ Baron Hill (IN) - 202 225-5315 http://baronhill.house.gov/ Zack Space (OH) - 202 225-6265 http://space.house.gov/index.html Bart Gordon (TN) - 202 225-4231 http://gordon.house.gov/ Jim Matherson (UT) - 202 225-3011 http://matheson.house.gov/   more »