Jaron Lanier's You Are Not A Gadget has been on my reading list for nearly two years, and if nothing else comes of this damn book I'm trying to write, it'll be satisfying to say that I've made my way through any number of important works that for one reason or another, I failed to…
Arctic Ice June 2011The sun is the main driver of climate and weather. The Arctic solar year could be plotted as a graph of the angle of the sun relative to the horizon, negative in winter and positive in summer. The graph would be a very neat waveform which varied little in amplitude or in frequency on decadal timescales. B
(image shutterstock) I've been watching the news for tidbits which illuminate a thesis I've been working up for my book. Today the New York Times provided a doozy: Swiss Cows Send Texts to Announce They’re in Heat. As James Gleick, author of The Information, noted in a Twitter response to me: That's one heckuva headline. So…