The Fix – Sanford Admits Affair, First Thoughts.
Are the repubs, like, dead-set on their own demise? The head of the Repub Gov Association got caught having an affair today.
The Fix – Sanford Admits Affair, First Thoughts
// June 24th, 2009
United We Serve
// June 22nd, 2009United We Serve Kick-Off | The White House.
Michelle Obama encouraged you (and me) to get involved, to serve, to make our nation greater still.
A Helium Shortage?
// June 16th, 2009Wired 8.08: A Helium Shortage?.
-Nearly all of the world’s helium supply is found within a 250-mile radius of Amarillo, Texas (the Helium Capital of the World). A byproduct of billions of years of decay, helium is distilled from natural gas that has accumulated in the presence of radioactive uranium and thorium deposits. If it’s not extracted during the natural gas refining process, helium simply soars off when the gas is burned, unrecoverable.
-“The moon is the El Dorado of helium-3,” says Savage, and he’s right: Every star, including our sun, emits helium constantly. Implanted in the lunar soil by the solar wind, the all-important gas can be found on the moon by the bucketful.
-But, says Swindle, when we really want a lot – when we’re rocketing to the Red Planet and back for Labor Day weekend – the best place to gas up won’t be the moon: “The really big source of it is way out.” In our quest for helium-3, we’ll travel to Uranus and Neptune, whose helium-rich atmospheres are very similar in chemical composition to the sun’s. If futurists like Swindle and Savage are right, the gas will be our reason for traveling to our solar system’s farthest reaches – and our means of getting there.
The Associated Press: Momentum builds for broad debate on legalizing pot
// June 16th, 2009“We need to come at this from a point of science and research and not from mythologies or fears.”
via The Associated Press: Momentum builds for broad debate on legalizing pot.
Social Networks Spread Iranian Defiance Online – NYTimes.com
// June 16th, 2009I want to learn and do what this guy is doing:
Austin Heap, a 25-year-old information technology consultant in San Francisco, is running his own private proxies to help Iranians, and is advertising them on Twitter. He said on Monday that his servers were providing the Internet connections for about 750 Iranians at any one moment.
“I think that cyber activism can be a way to empower people living under less than democratic governments around the world,” he said.
via Social Networks Spread Iranian Defiance Online – NYTimes.com.