The Next One will decide?
Today, San Francisco marked the 100th anniversary of the earthquake that killed almost 3,000 people (most of them perished in the fires that spread post-earthquake). Although it has been a hundred...
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Truth
Be sure to watch this movie if you are *still* unconvinced about our role in global warming. Heck, even conservatives are now warming up (no pun intended) to the truth. Full-content RSS feed. For...
View ArticleWildlife defies Chernobyl radiation
Humans are much more dangerous to animals than radiation ever can be. At least in Chernobyl. Full-content RSS feed. For stories on the web worth reading, use this feed. © patrix, 2006. | No comment...
View ArticleBlown Away
Holy Crappola! Hurricane season 2006 promises to be ‘very active’, according to NOAA. However, on other hand the National Hurricane Center predicts a calmer weather. Whom do we believe? Well, at least...
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Truth
Mike from AOL Moviefone contacted me and asked me if it would be possible to spread the word on the upcoming movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Since I support the (anti) global warming movement, I am...
View ArticleSkeptic to Convert
Gregg Easterbrook, NY Times columnist has switched sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert. If you have been reading this blog and not yet convinced by global warming warnings, go watch...
View ArticleSome things never change
Come on! It’s just the first week of June and in fact, the first rains and the city is already grinding to a halt. Full-content RSS feed. For stories on the web worth reading, use this feed. © patrix,...
View ArticleAttractive Parents
“Attractive parents are 26% more likely to have a daughter than a son as their first child”. Sadly my parents’ example proves it wrong. Technorati Tags: genetics, parents, children, research, science...
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Freaking Cold
Holy shit! It’s freaking cold today. I was cribbing earlier this week that it is almost December and I haven’t really dusted out my winter jacket (even though its Texas). Of course, we were warned that...
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Fodder for Hurricanes
I was at Galveston, the erstwhile primary port of Texas until a hurricane in 1900 delivered a deathblow that the town never recovered from. Of course, I relished the fresh sea food from one of the many...
View ArticleNatural Homosexuality in the Animal World
The Natural History Museum in Oslo is staging a government-financed exhibition in its august halls that shows that homosexuality — far from being unnatural — is actually rampant in the animal world....
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“Ram Teri Ganga Maili”
The Ardh Kumbh Mela often seen as one of the world’s biggest human gatherings started last week at Allahabad. But it seems that pollution has finally proven to be too much even for the most pious souls...
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Inclement Weather and Graduate Students
Cooped up at home for the past couple of days due to the winter storm passing through Texas. The spring semester that was supposed to start on Tuesday will finally begin tomorrow. After seeing plenty...
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What Manhattan might look like if sea levels continue to rise
[source] Update: Note that this is an exaggeration and levels might not rise to this level at least in the near future. I just like the visual imagery. Full-content RSS feed. For stories on the web...
View ArticleWintery Spring
I have been under the weather for the past week going through my ‘annual bout’ of cold and flu. To make matters worse, the rest of the continental U.S. also has been experiencing the vagaries of...
View ArticleGays cause floods?
Thanks to the erudite comments by the senior Church of England bishops, we have a new revelation: The floods that have devastated swathes of the country are God’s judgment on the immorality and greed...
View ArticleRepublicans and Hurricanes
Memo to Republicans and John McCain: Hurricane Ike is heading to the Texas coast and is expected to make landfall as a category 3 storm. We expect you guys will be coming over for relief efforts and...
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Hunkering Down for Hurricane Ike
Hurricane Ike's path through Houston Hurricane Ike is expected to pass right through the heart of Houston after literally battering Galveston. A 15-foot storm surge is expected to flood the entire...
View ArticleSpider Silk
This week in New York, the American Museum of Natural History unveiled something never before seen: an 11-by-4-foot tapestry made completely of spider silk. Weavers in Madagascar took four years to...
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Traveling to Ithaca & Upstate New York
Making a trip to New England or at least the Northeast to experience the fall colors has been on my bucket list for a long time. Living in Texas makes you completely oblivious to the fall season which...
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