The Frogurt Is Also Cursed

Usually, for a student newspaper at a university without a journalism school/department, The Exponent is pretty good. I wonder if the editors really knew what they were putting in today's banner headline:

( Tea-Related Protest Story )

From CNN.com: What got cut from the stimulus bill

Excerpts

Partially cut:

• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)
  
• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)
  
• $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)

Fully eliminated:

• $100 million for National Institute of Standards and Technology
  
• $50 million for NASA
  
• $50 million for aeronautics
  
• $50 million for exploration
  
• $200 million for National Science Foundation
  
• $100 million for science
  
• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement
  
• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management
  
• $2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants
  
• $16 billion for school construction
  
• $3.5 billion for higher education construction

There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!

Large Hadron Collider test a success

[Edit: From ihasatardis - End of the World?]

On the way up to campus this morning, I caught the end of a report about a new electric car from (I think) Honda, that runs on hydrogen. It was a syndicated report and I didn't catch who made it or I'd e-mail them.

Putting aside the fact that hydrogen is an expensive gas to obtain because most of it is high up in our atmosphere or extracted via electrolysis of water (which takes electricity from somewhere)... The reporter closed the story by stating:

...and instead of emitting greenhouse gases, this engine's exhaust is water vapor. (Emphasis mine.)

Uh... hello? Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in our atmosphere, responsible for anywhere from 30 to 70% of earth's greenhouse effect. It's also the one greenhouse gas whose atmospheric amount we have the most difficulty measuring, thanks to high variability due to the dynamic water cycle.

(Missed this earlier in the week.)

Ivan Dixon dies at 76

:-(

Brit actress saved by outraged Emma

Awesome. (Link yoinked from phinnia.)

Fly naked on nudist holiday flight

The important safety tip in the subject of this post was pointed out to me, wisely, by Toni. :-)

On second thought, I'm not sorry:

Mankind 'shortening the universe's life'

Oh, noes!