What Are Aerosols?

"Aerosols tend to cause cooling of the Earth's surface by reflecting the Sun's light back into space"

Read the full article by Mary Hardin and Ralph Kahn at Earth Observatory's Library.

Plants revealed as methane source

"Scientists in Germany have discovered that ordinary plants produce significant amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas which helps trap the sun's energy in the atmosphere."

Read the full story by Tim Hirsch at: BBC NEWS

US-CERT Cyber Security Alert SA06-011A -- Apple QuickTime Vulnerabilities

US-CERT Cyber Security Alert SA06-011A -- Apple QuickTime Vulnerabilities

I thought that this should be posted because so many people with different OS's use QuickTime. I know that I do.

The Bureaucrat in Your Shower by Jeffrey Tucker

The Department of Energy may soon be paying a visit to a certain shower-head manufacturer in Arizona. The company is Zoe Industries Manufacturing. It runs Showerbuddy.com, a popular site that sells amazing equipment for bathrooms.

Consumers love the company but one man doesn't."

Read the full story by Jeffrey Tucker at Mises Institute

The War on Christmas, the Prequel

When the holiday was banned.


Complaining about Christmas is one of the most enduring of Christmas traditions. It's not so much the holiday itself that bothers us. It's the way other people insist on celebrating it.

Liberal plots notwithstanding, the Americans who succeeded in banning the holiday were the Puritans of 17th-century Massachusetts.

Read the full article by Andrew Santella...

What Extremists on the LEFT and RIGHT Have in Common

What all extremists have in common is the way they came by their ideology: via emotion. My thesis is that all extremists start with hot emotion, and add the cool rationale later.

Read the full article by John Shirley