Archive for April 28th, 2008
Oh, what a golden web she weaves (part III)
Posted by neil, April 28th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 7
Funny, the things that you see in nature, like this humanoid face on the cephalothorax of a golden orb-weaver, Nephila pilipes.
I have previously described aspects of this spectacular species of spider, here and here. With this instalment, the adult female in the image below descended from her web on the 19th April to build [...]
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Fred Singer Does Not Believe in Martians: Lawrence Solomon
Posted by jennifer, April 28th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: People
Comments: 43
Fred Singer, one of the world’s renowned scientists, believes in Martians. I discovered this several weeks ago while reading his biography on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. “Do you really believe in Martians?” I asked him last week, at a chance meeting at a Washington event. The answer was “No.”
Wikipedia’s error was neither isolated nor inadvertent. [...]
100 per cent ‘Green’ Tax Increase, Less Than 1 per cent Decrease in CO2 Emissions
Posted by Paul, April 28th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Economics
Comments: 32
In case anyone didn’t notice, the UK Treasury is the epicentre of climate related reports and also benefits from the resultant so called ‘green taxes.’ Nicholas Stern was a member of the Treasury at the time of the Stern Review on the economics of climate change, which was based on extreme computer modelled scenarios. [...]

