Just When...

Just when you've accumulated enough experience in life to think that the human race has few surprises left to offer you...they surprise you again.

Offered without comment: Steven Ferrini's recent run-in with the cops.

On ClimateGate...

MIT Professor Richard Lindzen has an excellent piece on ClimateGate, its impact on science, and its message about science, in today's Wall Street Journal.  Go read.

First Light...

This is all over the news, but just in case you somehow missed it – NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has released its “first light” photos and movies.  They are simply spectacular.  A whole lot of excellent science is going to flow from this latest (relatively cheap) robotic explorer.  Unlike, say, the completely useless International Space Station (with the picture window that cost more than SDO)...