Getting Warmer by the Numbers

This video is an interesting look at the back and forth of the climate change debate. Today, the Associated Press released an article by their science writer, Seth Borenstein, detailing the results of a new analysis on climate data.

"The AP sent expert statisticians NOAA's year-to-year ground temperature changes over 130 years and the 30 years of satellite-measured temperatures preferred by skeptics and gathered by scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville."

"Statisticians who analyzed the data found a distinct decades-long upward trend in the numbers, but could not find a significant drop in the past 10 years in either data set. The ups and downs during the last decade repeat random variability in data as far back as 1880."

Remember the Death Star(s)

Sometimes humor and Star Wars are the only medicine.

Dream Yourself to Death

A short by Rian Johnson, of "Brick" and "Brothers Bloom" fame.

American Imperialism

Whatever the History channel is broadcasting right now isn't as important as Howard Zinn's History of American Imperialism. Doesn't hurt that Viggo Mortensen is narrating.