A View from the Beach

National Safe Boating Week I don't usually put much stock in National Anything weeks, but this one is worthwhile, as I have documented...

At a Congressional hearing on hydraulic fracturing, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, reluctantly admits there have been no cases where fracki...

On his way home from graduation: One of the many missing people in Joplin, Mo. is Will Norton, who was driving home from his high school gr...

It's been around, but this time I saw it at Ace's ONT .

Hey it's science! Women find happy guys significantly less sexually attractive than swaggering or brooding men, according to a new Univ...

The company hoping to put in the new coal fired power plant at Cypress Creek in Virginia, Old Dominion Electrical Cooperative, fired it...

State Issues New Health Advisories in Baltimore Harbor A recent study found long-term exposure to sediments and waters adjacent to Coke Poi...

From the same site as the volcano pictures:  

Rude People Can Be Perceived as Powerful Powerful people often bend the rules. But here’s a twist: If someone breaks rules, are they then p...

Some great pictures from the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland. Just to whet your interest.

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I like BD.  Hell of a songwriter.  Some crap, lots of stolen and mishmashed old songs, but that's all fair.  Georgia doesn't.  He ...

White House Adds New Position to Deal with Unfavorable Online Media The White House has named Jesse Lee to a new position within its commun...

I am, of course, being sarcastic.  The Bay New de Jour has three articles today on new coal-fired power plant that is being considered to su...

End Of World In 1 Billion Years? ...The story begins some 4.57 billion years ago, when the young sun's nuclear furnace ignited and stab...

From over at Stacey McCain's, the news that President Obama's newly minted stretch limo high centered and got stuck on an exit ramp ...

Riverkeepers decry 'incremental solutions' Gov. Martin O'Malley was all smiles Thursday as he signed bills to promote the burnin...

Explosion at China iPad Factory Shows Supply Risks  An explosion at one of two factories that make Apple's new iPad 2 highlights the ri...

Stress can shorten telomeres in childhood A long-term study of children from Romanian orphanages suggests that the effects of childhood str...