Having just finished reading a a missive to Mr Huhne about his windmills over at the < ahref="http://foggy-mirror.blogspot.com/2011/12/and-then-little-inconvenient-science.html">Foggy Mirror I was rather relieved to see that wind turbines can make a positive contribution towards the fight against the next ice age. As they say in the popular* story “A game of thrones” – winter is coming Update: I suppose I should link to the
Having had occasion recently to journey to the fair city of York I picked up a copy of New Scientist to read on the train back home, and came across a few articles that were rather interesting, so in the order in which I encountered them. The first concerned the ethical problems for anti-addiction drugs – now obviously helping people beat an addiction is a good thing. The drugs described though are vaccines that prevent you getting a high from the drugs, and as the article observes there is the risk that this will just cause addicts to take much … Continue reading
Came across this rather amusing snippet in the Metro’s MiniCosm column, and felt it deserved slightly wider coverage, thought a quick search does show it’s being picked up quite well once you know to search for it (“sheep tree rings”) The minicosm article says: “For more than 100 years, tree rings have been used to record climate. But nibbling from sheep could have had more of an impact on their development than historic changes in the weather. After spending nine summers in pens with sheep, cross sections of 206 birch trees were measured. Tree ring widths were more affected by … Continue reading
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