Homeopathy and the 10:23 project - Discover Magazine Blogs
Have they passed any relevant environmental laws relating to the dumping of extremely potent medicines into areas where the public will be exposed to them?. As an interesting corollary I saw Jenny McCarthy tonight on ABC news say ���The doctors need to start listening to our anecdotal evidence���... Enough with the mole-dy jokes, O.K.? FWIW... Entire City of Kathmandu and Surroundings May Have Been Thrust More Than Two Feet Upward by Nepal Earthquake.
From space: video of five days of tornadoes - Bad.
It missed us, and by the time we got on the road it was gone��� but I have to wonder if that was the same storm system that produced the tornado that swept through Joplin, Missouri... piece of news seen today is kinda interesting too... fast over a span of only twenty minutes or so that the phrase feels appropriate), and I knew the area was potentially in for a beating��� within a few minutes, the cloud cover got so thick, the darkness tripped all the citys streetlight sensors��.
Forget the Green Lantern: heres the Green Flash - Bad.
H��depohl is one of several ESO Photo Ambassadors, people who take wonderful shots of the area and the night sky to help promote what ESO is doing. And this one qualifies! The Earths atmosphere acts like a lens, bending��.
Pretty Little Liars Season 4 Spoilers: What Really Happened The Night Alison.
The spring finale of ���Pretty Little Liars��� took ABC Family viewers on a WILD ride. Episode 24, ���A is for Answers,���. Turns out Alison told him that she was a 21-year-old student student at UPenn and roommates with CeCe. Ezra became fascinated with.
Rekindled flame
Brad Goldpaint is a professional photographer who takes devastating photos of the sky ��� like the amazing one of the Milky Way over the Venus/Jupiter conjunction ��� and he specializes in putting amazing foreground objects in his shots. I saw this.
Seen From Space: High Winds Kick up Big Dust Storm in.
1 dead, 16 injured after dust storm causes pileup on Utah highway http://t.co/svun1j29Yp pic.twitter.com/JOTpBrwNDf. ��� NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) April 15, 2015. The dust storm seen in the animation at the top��.
Paul Douglas Weather Column: Why Is An April-Like Storm.
Anatomy Of A Flash Flood. The cell that drifted over St. Cloud dropped an estimated 2 of rain (most of that in less than 1 hour). With a saturated ground that water couldnt soak into the soil - it almost immediately ran off into streets. Funnel/Tornado Reports. Here is a NWS run-down of the severe storms that swept from south to north across the metro area during the mid afternon hours. The most significant damage appears to have been in the Coon Rapids area,��.
Tropical Cyclones Parade Across the Pacific - ImaGeo
NBC News (@NBCNews) August 8, 2014. Following on. White areas show where the concentration of water vapor is high ��� including in the cyclones: Genevieve, Iselle and Julio (which Ive marked in the screenshot).
Tornadoes, Flash Floods Upend the Oklahoma City Area
Authorities are investigating the damage left behind by spring storms carrying more than a dozen suspected tornadoes that swept across the southern Plains, bringing floods, forcing the evacuation of an international airport and destroying homes near .
Psychedelic space station stars and cities
Astronaut Don Petit took the pictures to make this composite. Basically, its a series of eighteen 30-second exposures added together so the motion of the ISS around the Earth makes the stars trail, the cities blur, and your mind expand, dude. The.
Tornado, Winds, Kill at Least 17 in Southern States - TeakDoor
Weather: Tornado, Winds, Kill at Least 17 in Southern States - ABC News Tornado, Winds, Kill at Least 17 in Southern States Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Declared a State of.. RALEIGH, N.C. ��� A furious storm system that kicked up tornadoes, flash floods and hail as big as softballs has claimed at least 25 lives on a rampage that began in Oklahoma days ago, then smashed across several Southern states as it reached a new and deadly pitch in North Carolina��.
Boulder fire damage seen from space - Bad Astronomy.
You can see the wiggly line thats the Boulder Canyon, and the creek runs along it, out of the Foothills, and right through the heart of Boulder, which sits on what is essentially a flood plain. Its been a. When I moved here, I thought Boulder was immune to the natural disasters I was used to: hurricanes (I grew up in Virginia), tornadoes (my wifes family is from Kansas) and earthquakes (for six years we lived within a few klicks of the San Andreas fault). Floods didnt��.
The scars of a Colorado fire
The way this image is color-coded, ironically vegetation looks red while fire-ravaged areas are greenish. The scale bar at the. Lots of people move out into idyllic countryside homes simply to get away from the bustle and crowding of the cities.
Move Over Super El Ni��o, Here Comes the Tasmanian Devil (Or Would that be.
Andy Revkin, my friend and colleague, has an excellent post up over at DotEarth on the Super El Ni��o Forecast Fadeout (which I wrote about yesterday here). And as he notes, attention is now focusing ��� again ��� on the return of the polar vortex. The.
Lightning strikes in a storm bigger than worlds
The lightning flash can be seen in the image on the left, indicated by the arrow. It happened while Cassini happened to be using a blue filter, which is why it appears to be that color. The white and tan milky clouds are from the storm itself. The.
Ecology, Climate Change and Related News | Conservation.
You can sign up for this news compilation by signing up for the California Landscape Conservation Cooperative Newsletter or the Bay Area Ecosystems Climate Change Consortium listserve to receive this... The engineered spring flood that brought water to previously dry reaches of the lower Colorado River and its delta resulted in greener vegetation, the germination of new vegetation along the river and a temporary rise in the water table, according to new results��.
Wanna see the space station overhead? NASA will send you mail!
Seeing the International Space Station pass overhead is pretty cool. It glides soundlessly across the sky, getting brighter as it gets closer to you, whizzing by hundreds of kilometers above your head at 8 kilometers per second. I usually go to Heavens.
Purple shag Sun
Pretty cool. First, of course, the purple color is not real. Its just the color Andre chose for this picture when he processed it. Second, he used an H�� filter, which lets through a very narrow slice of light (actually in the red part of the spectrum.
Robert Bales told other soldiers he killed Afghan men, but not women or children
Bales is already being integrated into the normal pre-trial confinement routine, Post spokeswoman Rebecca Steed said. That includes recreation, meals and cleaning the area where he is being housed. Ms Steed said once his meetings with his attorney.
Twelve months of headlines - Macleans.ca
The Canadian Press looks back at what made news in 2013.. 4: Using DNA from a direct descendent of his eldest sister, scientists confirmed that remains unearthed under a parking lot in the city of Leicester in 2012 were those of Englands King Richard III. The DNA came from Canadian Michael Ibsen, a living direct... 31: An EF5 tornado struck El Reno, Okla., which along with subsequent flooding killed 19 people, including three storm chasers. The twister had a��.
Anna Pasternak and Wallas acknowledge that their new book, which promotes.
Her catalogue of fiendish behaviour includes cutting up his ties, dumping some of his hideous shirts, upending his prized tomatoes on the patio and storming out of practically every restaurant in Kensington, exposing him to the pitying glances of other.
Matt Ridley Reveals His Confirmation Bias
Several years ago, the BBC aired an excellent program called, ���Science Under Attack.��� It was hosted by UK Royal Society President Paul Nurse, who examined. why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded ��� from the theory that man-made .
Needed: Accurate climate forecasts | Watts Up With That?
The Dust Bowl upended lives and livelihoods for millions of Americans, while decades-long droughts vanquished once-thriving Anasazi and Mayan cultures, and flood and drought cycles repeatedly pounded African, Asian and Australian communities. Hurricanes and tornadoes have also battered states and countries throughout history, in numbers and intensities that have been impossible to pattern or predict... Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #157.
Hurricane Odile Slams Cabo San Lucas, Leaves Demolished Paradise
Hurricane Odile, the most powerful ever to strike the Baja California peninsula of Mexico, rammed into the luxury resorts of Cabo San Lucas on Monday ��� smashing windows, flooding roads, causing parts of hotels to collapse and injuring at least 135 people.
Raging clouds, near and very, very far
I follow quite a few photographers on Google+, Twitter, and other social media. Why? Because this: I know, right? This ridiculously amazing picture [click to embiggen, or see an even bigger version] was taken by Randy Halverson of DakotaLapse.com.
@SUNAMI2U: Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Eastern.
Authorities warned that New York City and Long Island could get the worst of the storm surge: an 11-foot onslaught of seawater that could swamp lower areas of the city. Sea water floods the entrance to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York... At least 35 tornadoes have whipped through the Midwest since Tuesday, April 7, causing devastation to multiple areas in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.
Tropical Cyclones Parade Across the Pacific
Screenshot of an animation showing patterns of water vapor in the atmosphere. Magenta color indicates areas where clear, dry air penetrates lower in the atmosphere. White areas show areas of high water vapor ��� including in three storms swirling in the .
Followup: City lights from space - Discover Magazine Blogs
But, using various tools ��� Wolfram Alpha to get the ISS position at the time the photo was taken, an atlas, and a rough direction and scale using the visibility of Orions belt in the picture ��� I took a stab at which cities were which... The yellow areas on the aeronautical charts are supposed to depict the actual lighted areas at night (see http://www.skyvector.com). May 18, 2011 at. Sign up to get the latest science news delivered weekly right to your inbox! Sign up.. OK.
Another Week of GW News, April 15, 2012 - ScienceBlogs
2012/04/10: Grist: Detroit residents are turning the city into suburbs.. Tornadoes pummeled Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas on Saturday and severe weather struck a hospital in Iowa as residents of the U.S. Central and Southern Plains states hunkered down for a predicted major outbreak of twisters that could continue into. Drought conditions affecting much of England could increase the risk of flash flooding in heavy rain, the Environment Agency has warned.
The Anti-Science Tent
There was no ���Road to Damascus��� conversion, where theres a sudden blinding flash and you go, ���Oh, my God, Ive got this wrong.��� There are processes of gradually opening ones mind and beginning to take seriously alternative viewpoints, and then.
Another tornado MADE OF FIRE! - Discover Magazine Blogs
New analysis of old finds upends conventional wisdom about where and when the first artists evolved.. The whirlwind gets pumped by the hot air rising, and the next thing you know youve got a full-blown tornado of fire.. Kind of like the firestorms during the bombardments on German cities during WW2... Unfortunately I was working in a classified area and didnt have my camera.. The first fire tornado you posted about made Yahoo news a day or so later.
Recent Disasters - Disaster Survival Resources
Tornado. Browse these articles about recent disasters. Events are changing rapidly and while we do my best to keep up and post some of the latest disaster news, we can not read everything, so if you happen across something that you.. the area - especially Fall River, Fish Creek, and the Big Thompson River, are out of their banks. She said residents should exercise extreme caution if they need to leave their homes. Read more. Estes Park Flooding 2013. Fun City Estes Park Floods.