Sustainable Water - A Lesson From India

Anupam Mishra travels across water-challenged India studying rainwater harvesting methods and learning from the people behind them. He presents his findings to NGOs, development agencies and environmental groups, pulling from centuries of indigenous wisdom that has found water for drinking and irrigation even in extremely arid landscapes through wells, filter ponds and other catchment systems.
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"In [him] lives a spirit, of quiet service, that once existed freely in our politics and our activism, a spirit that has been completely excised from one sphere and remains gravely threatened in the other."
Ramachandra Guha, in The Hindu

As Others See Us

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!".
(I wish that some Power would give us the little gift of seeing ourselves as other see us.)
Robert_Burns

Let's be honest, both poles of the American political spectrum fear the same thing about each other; that if the other gets control a lot of oppressive weird stuff will happen.
Hank Campbell

Jim Croce, whose major was psychology in Villanova University, perhaps, had a minor in physics, I don't know, when he graduated in 1965. His song "Time in a Bottle" conjures physics of love, right?

So, if there is chemistry of love, then there is definitely physics of love, its sister science. See if you "find" physics in the lyrics of Time in a Bottle.

If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
Till Eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure and then

Let's be honest, both poles of the American political spectrum fear the same thing about each other; that if the other gets control a lot of oppressive weird stuff will happen.

If right-wing people get control, the presidency will carry a 'sponsored by Exxon" sign and 'gay' will be outlawed.  Not gay marriage - gay.   If left wing people get control, there will be mandatory gay porn in church and jackbooted enviro-fascists will kick down your doors if you don't compost your orange rinds.

Walter Fontana, a Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard, reflects on models in biology:

Models will play a central role in the representation, storage, manipulation, and transmission of knowledge in systems biology. Models that are capable of fulfilling all these purposes will likely differ from the familiar styles deployed with great success in the physical sciences. "Classical" flavors of models may be viewed on a continuum between two major types:

Models that are of heuristic nature.

I decided to follow the lead of Alex, the Daytime Astronomer and rewrite my profile. I figured being a little bit more forthcoming couldn't hurt. To save you the trouble of going to my profile, I have copied it here for your convenience.

I have a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) with a strong background in geology. I am a life member of the University of Illinois Alumni Association.

I am also a Life governing member of the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago, IL, and through my suggestions to the president of the Adler, I have helped make the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum what it is today.

The Primordial Soup theory of the origins of life on earth has been cooling for years. Probably, by now, it's too cold to reheat.

Abiogenesis, or the study of how life originated from Earth (and Universe) stuff, connects the Earth and Life sciences, for me.

A research team from the University College, London focused their new research into the origins of Earth life on deep sea vents, where geochemical gradients across microscopic caverns could have acted as catalytic cells, generating precursors of the carbon and energy metabolism found in all organisms, which the first true, free-floating living cells internalized, they conclude.

I just spent the afternoon watching an equine competition called dressage, which I believe is from the French meaning "having one's teeth drilled" (I could be wrong).  

In higher levels of competition, the rider moves through the various patterns and "tests" to demonstrate the smoothness of movement between the horse and rider.  At the lower levels of competition you can have someone call out the pattern moves, which makes it a bit like slow-motion square dancing without the music.

Love CO2




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Earlier today I reported about the publication of a paper by a non-professional physicist, Carl Brannen. Now I have to do the same for a paper -the first one in a long and groundbreaking series, you can bet- from the CMS collaboration, one of the two main experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.