Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is managed by Lawrence Livermore National Security,
LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.

To see full-size charts of this research, go to:

https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news/news_releases/2008/NR-08-06-07.html

SOURCE: National Science Foundation

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   Becoming President How
    do you get to the White House?
                
                 James /Rosenquist / President Elect

           

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    Site Map Ocean temps, sea level increases 50% higher then previously though June 20, 2008

    New research suggests that ocean temperature and associated sea level increases between
    1961 and 2003 were 50% larger than estimated in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on
    Climate Change report.

    The results are reported in the June 19 edition of the journal Nature. An international team of
    researchers, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory climate scientist Peter Gleckler,
    compared climate models with improved observations that show sea levels rose by 1.5 mm per
    year in the period from 1961-2003. That equates to an approximately 2½-inch increase in ocean
    levels in a 42-year span.

   The ocean warming and thermal expansion rates are more than 50% larger than previous
   estimates for the upper 300 m of oceans.

    The research corrected for small but systematic biases recently discovered in the global ocean
    observing system, and uses statistical techniques that “infill” information in data-sparse regions.
    The results increase scientists’ confidence in ocean observations and further demonstrate that
    climate models simulate ocean temperature variability more realistically than previously thought.

   “This is important for the climate modeling community because it demonstrates that the climate
    models used for assessing sea-level rise and ocean warming tie in closely with the observed results,”
    Gleckler said.

   Climate model data were analyzed from 13 different modeling groups. All model data were obtained
   from the WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset archived at the LLNL’s Program for Climate Model Diagnosis
   and Intercomparison (PCMDI).

   Although observations and models confirm that recent warming is greatest in the upper ocean,
   there are widespread observations of warming deeper than 700 m.

   Results were compared with recent estimates of other contributions to sea-level rise including
    glaciers, ice caps, Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and thermal expansion changes in the deep
   ocean. When these independent lines of evidence are examined collectively, the story is more
   consistent than found in earlier studies.

  The oceans store more than 90% of the heat in the Earth’s climate
  system and act as a temporary buffer against the effects of climate
  change. The ocean warming and thermal expansion rates are 50%
  larger than previous estimates for the upper 700 m of oceans, and
  greater than that for the upper 300 m.

“This is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak,” Gleckler says. “Our ability to quantify structural
 uncertainties in observationally based estimates is critically important. This study represents
important progress.”

The team involved researchers from the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research
(CSIRO), the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre and LLNL.

Founded in 1952, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a national security laboratory,
with a mission to ensure national security and apply science and technology to the important
issues of our time.
 
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is managed by Lawrence Livermore National Security,
LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.

To see full-size charts of this research, go to:

https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news/news_releases/2008/NR-08-06-07.html

SOURCE: National Science Foundation

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 Nancye Green / Michael Donovan
Moore’s Law
 Where do we begin?  Information Technology!

 What is 100100110011101000110100111110100101001101100000110101001001001100111?

The Internet What does it look like?

E-Commerce How far and how fast? What’s all the fuss?
Computer Crime What should we fear?
Internet Users Who’s online? What are they doing?
Employment Who’s on the next shift? Information AnxietyHow much is too much?
Information Overload How do we feel about

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 [6/22/2008 3:48:06 AM]?

Reed Agnew / Don Moyer

 Age & Race  Who lives here?
 
Demographic Snapshots 

Who are we?
 
Population Distribution
 
Where do we live? Where don’t we live?

 Patterns of Race Where are densities above and below average?

 Age, Sex & Marriage Where are densities above and below average?

 Income, Origin & Education Where are densities above and below average?
 
 Population Growth Rate
 
 How do births, deaths and migration affect growth?
 
 Distribution of Wealth
 
  How much money do we make?

 Becoming President How do you get to the White House?

 The Electoral College

 Does your vote count?

 Lobbying

 What does a lobbyist do? What is a special interest group?

 What is a political action committe

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Kit Hinrichs
War
What are the human and financial costs
to the citizens of the United States?
Nuclear Arms

What are the human and economic costs of nuclear weapons,
and what is the current threat to the world?
Armaments

The U.S. manufactures, stockpiles and distributes more
armaments than any other country. Has it made us more secure?

How big is the U.S. arsenal, what kind of weapons does it include
and how much does it cost?

National Defense
What are the human and financial costs of national defense to
the citizens of the United States?

Terrorism
How has the threat of terrorism changed our view of our
international neighbors and ourselves?
Biochemical Weapons

How dangerous are biochemical weapons? Who is at risk?

Are we prepared for an attack?

Human Rights Where does the United States stand in the struggle for human rights internationally
and at home?
International Affairs
Is the United States a good global citizen?
Intelligence Community
Is the U.S. getting the most accurate, cost effective, relevant
information from its intelligence agencies?

 
Hunger
  How does the U.S. stack up in the fight against domestic and
  international hunger?
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   Des Teufels General: Ernst Udet and Carl Zuckmayer
   Dirk Reuter, historian

   Dirk Reuter sheds new light on the last days of General Harras (alias Ernst Udet).
   World War I flying ace and Nazi,Udet was a longtime friend of the playwright Carl Zuckmayer.
   Their friendship lasted until the playwright's emigration to the USA. Dirk Reuter's
   lecture offers an essayist approach to Udet and Zuckmayer as both typical and atypical German
   men, exploring their historic genesis and the 
   fictional fantasies that surround them.
   THE DEVALS GENERAL 1944

                                                            


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Eco-Camp Las Torres
July 1, 2007 by pacificdomes
ECOCAMP LAS TORRES
Location:
• 120km/75mi from Pto. Natales and 370km/230mi from Pta. Arenas;
• Standing in front of the Paine Towers amidst a beautiful Lenga forest;
• 6-8 hrs walk from the domes to the foot of the Paine Towers;

Design:
   The architectural solution that we adopted for this place arose from the old photographs of Kawesqar
   Indians, natives of this part: The huts which they constructed were of an igloo type covered with  
   guanaco skins.
   Starting with that we realised that the domes could be the answer that we were looking for: they are
   semi-hemispherical structures formed by a number of isosceles triangles. This allowed the structure, when 
   attacked by tremendous forces such as the not unusual winds of 160km per hour in this area, to receive 
   the attack uniformly on the foundation part, reducing to a minimum the possibility that the structure might 
   collapse.
   As well as this the round shape of the dome minimized its exposure to the wind. Finally, the semi-hemisphere
   gave the most internal space in relation to the surface and allowed us to be very efficient in the allocation
   of space and maintaining heat.

• The concept is being exposed to nature as in a camp tent but with the comfort and sophistication of a four
  star hotel.
• Designed and built interfering as little as possible with the environment. The whole hotel has been built
   over lifted wooden platforms eliminating the need of foundations and cement floors. Animals and fresh air
   circulate underneath;
• Dormitories and common areas are contained on Geodesic domes inspired in the native Alacalufe’s
   semicircular huts;
• Geodesic form minimizes resistant to strong Patagonean winds and the exchange of temperature with
   the outdoors;
• Circulation areas consist in raised walkways open to rain, sun, and wind that allow guests to be constantly
   exposed to the surrounded nature. Not to roof the circulation area allow an important reduction of constructed
   areas and therefore huge savings on materials;
• Sunlight fills the domes minimizing the use of artificial light;
• Every dome has the necessary privacy for personal introspection;
• 30 people is the maximum concentration accepted at EcoCamp;
• Only renewable energy sources are used. Wind generators provide energy supply for illumination,
   solar panels heat the compost toilettes and gas supply is used for cooking and refrigeration.
• Insulation is passive and does not require the supply of energy. Domes are coated to minimize
   temperature exchange;
• Toilettes are designed to separate solid and liquid waste and to make compost on two heated chambers;
• Waste management system consider classification of waste, exportation out of the wilderness area
and recycling.

Dormitory Domes:
These domes have vitrified wooden floors and are 2m/6.5ft high with a diameter of 4m/12ft, allowing
plenty of space for sleeping comfortably. They are resistant to the strongest Patagonian winds, rains,
and snow and come equipped with 2 single beds, fleece sheets, blankets, and feather quilts. There are
round windows in the ceiling
 to observe the stars before falling asleep.

Dining & Living Room Dome:
The EcoCamp core is a giant dining & living room dome, 9m/ 30ft in diameter and 4.5m/13.5ft tall.
It is equipped with a resting area, dining room, and kitchen. The space is bright and airy with a big
panoramic window that brings dusk and dawn straight into the dining area.

Bathroom Dome:
The same size as the dining dome, this has showers with hot water and compost lavatories as well
 as washbasins and mirrors.

Power: we use solar panels to recharge the batteries which provide the electricity for the camp
radio and the extractors in the bathroom. The light in the individual domes is provided by table
 lamps with rechargeable batteries. These are recharged at our base in Puerto Natales. Right
now we are testing the possibility of installing an eolic generator.

UPGRADED CAMP PEHOE

In some of our camping trips we may also use a portable upgraded camp:it is a comfortable,
welcoming camp designed to take up to 20 people. It is a camp which we put up and take
down several times and for that reason it is lighter and more portable than the Torres Ecocamp.

  Upgraded camp has: A dining dome: of 6 metres in diameter.
  Tourist Tents: designed for 4 people but used by only 2. Comfortable and equipped with inflatable
  mattresses, sleeping bags, and a lining sheet of polar fleece.

Cooking Tent: This is a tent kept exclusively so that the cooks can prepare the dishes which you
will enjoy each day. Bathrooms: we use the facilities offered at the camping area where we set
up the Upgraded Camp. It usually have hot showers.

 
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Eco-Camp Patagonia
June 15, 2007 by pacificdomes

Because sustainable tourism is a matter that interests us all, let us tell you that we are moving
our hotel, Patagonia EcoCamp at Torres del Paine, from its original location to an upper hill some
600mts away from its original place. The novelty here is that we are moving the hotel but leaving
virtually no tracks behind because of the way we have constructed it. The operation starts in August
and will be finished by October 1st. In Chile´s island of Chiloe there is a old tradition of moving
houses from one place to another called “Minga”, in this case we are also moving our house, though
with less charm than in Chiloe where the whole community participates and oxen traction is used.

EcoCamp Patagonia is the 1st truly “Eco-Hotel” in Patagonia and also the 1st south of the Amazon
basin. Its operation started in January 2000, in Torres del Paine NP, with view of the famous
granite spires. The need to move it is born on that its initial capacity of 16 guests have increased
to 30, which is the maximum capacity recommended on EcoTourism codes as to keep the guests
accommodation experience intimate and as to minimize the environmental impact due to circulation
of both people and vehicles and due the managements of waste. The new capacity of 12 twin domes
and 2 tpl domes would not fit properly with the topography of the existing location and the staff
facilities which will grow in surface will not fit in the limited existing place. That´s why we are moving
 a bit further.

The Torres del Paine National Park, now designated a World Biosphere Reserve, is without doubt one of
the most beautiful and enthralling spots in the whole planet. This spectacular park, so remote and
mysterious, each year attracts thousands of tourists and adventure seekers of all nationalities.
The growth in demand of visitors has not been matched by the equivalent expansion of the infrastructure
 of hotels and services inside the park. This lack, which has continued for several years, is creating
 really serious problems in the form of the environmental impact on the park and the quality of tourist
 services in general.

When we became aware of this problem at Cascada Expediciones a few years ago, we decided to start a
serious process of research and study of alternatives to hotels, one which would allow us to create
a prototype solution to these kinds of problems in National Parks. The problem was: how to reconcile
 the care of thefragile environment of a National Park with the need to provide an infrastructure
and level of comfort suitable for our visitors? Was it possible to apply the same design criteria
as were used in cities in surroundings like a National Park? Would it not be reasonable to ask people
 visiting these remote places, so pristine and delicate, to direct their energies while they were
 there to preserving what they saw for others who would come later?

The answer which we arrived at for all this is what we have called the “Ecocamp”: a solution which
 offers accommodation which is modern, comfortable, transportable and suitable for the rigours of
the Patagonian climate; equipped with modern and environmentally friendly systems for the disposal
 of sewage and rubbish, with an efficient use of energy and the environment and at the same time
aesthetically stylish. As well as this, those who visit the ecocamp, our guests, are key actors in
 our conservation mission: they have accepted the challenge of minimizing the impact of their presence,
accepting that they will not have private bathrooms, reducing the use of energy and water and caring
for the immediate environment.

We hope that this project, which we have been developing and constructing in the way of a pilot in
Torres del Paine, can be taken to other similar places in Chile and will be able thus to respond to
 the ever increasing interest of visitors in remote places with the care and protection which those
 places need in order to preserve them for the future.

  R.Buckminster Fuller to E.J  Applewhite, 
 Cosmic Fishing 1977

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 Who is Buckminster Fuller?
September 15, 2007 by pacificdomes

“For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of
living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached
the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller, 1980

This confident assertion was made in 1980 by the late R. Buckminster Fuller–inventor, architect,
engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist. As early as 1959, Newsweek reported that Fuller
predicted the conquest of poverty by the year 2000.

In 1977, almost twenty years later, the National Academy of Sciences confirmed Fuller’s prediction.
 Their World Food and Nutrition Study, prepared by 1,500 scientists, concluded, “If there is the
political will in this country and abroad… it should be possible to overcome the worst aspects of
widespread hunger and malnutrition within one generation.”

Even with tragedies like Ethiopia and Somalia, it is becoming clear that,
as Fuller predicted, we have arrived at the possibility of eliminating
hunger and poverty in all the world within our lifetime.

Buckminster Fuller was one of our world’s first futurists and global thinkers. His 1927 decision to
 work always and only for all humanity led him to address the largest global problems of poverty,
disease and homelessness. He realized early on that by examining global problems in the context of
 the whole system—the whole planet—he would have the best chance of identifying large-scale trends
 that would allow him to anticipate the critical needs of humanity.

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'''Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
During interview with TomPaine.com
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“If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates”
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 can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.”
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 “(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
(Paperback) by Charles C. Mann (Author)
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Amazon.com
1491 is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated
(and often-dismissed) question of what human civilization in the Americas was like before the
Europeans crashed the party. The history books most Americans were (and still are) raised on
describe the continents before Columbus as a vast, underused territory, sparsely populated by
primitives whose cultures would inevitably bow before the advanced technologies of the Europeans.
For decades, though, among the archaeologists, anthropologists,paleolinguists, and others whose
discoveries Charles C. Mann brings together in 1491, different stories have been emerging. Among
the revelations: the first Americans may not have come over the Bering land bridge around
12,000 B.C. but by boat along the Pacific coast 10 or even 20 thousand years earlier;
the Americas were a far more urban, more populated, and more technologically advanced region
than generally assumed; and the Indians, rather than living in static harmony with nature, radically
engineered the landscape across the continents, to the point that even "timeless" natural features like
the Amazon rainforest can be seen as products of human intervention.
Mann is well aware that much of the history he relates is necessarily speculative, the product of
pot-shard interpretation and precise scientific measurements that often end up being radically revised
in later decades.
But the most compelling of his eye-opening revisionist stories are among the best-founded: the stories
of early American-European contact.

To many of those who were there, the earliest encounters felt more like a meeting of equals
than one of natural domination.

And those who came later and found an emptied landscape that seemed ripe for the taking,
Mann argues convincingly,encountered not the natural and unchanging state of the native
American, but the evidence of a sudden calamity:the ravages of what was likely the greatest
epidemic in human history, the smallpox and other diseases introduced inadvertently by
Europeans to a population without immunity, which swept through the Americas faster than
the explorers who brought it, and left behind for their discovery a land that held only a shadow
of the thriving cultures that it had sustained for centuries before. --Tom Nissley

A 1491 Timeline

Europe and Asia Dates The Americas

25000-35000 B.C. Time of paleo-Indian migration to Americas from Siberia,
according to genetic evidence.Groups likely traveled across the Pacific in boats.

Wheat and barley grown from wild ancestors in Sumer. 6000 

5000 In what many scientists regard as humankind's first and greatest feat
of genetic engineering, Indians in southern Mexico systematically breed maize
(corn) from dissimilar ancestor species.

First cities established in Sumer. 4000 

3000 The Americas' first urban complex, in coastal Peru, of at least 30 closely
packed cities, each centered around large pyramid-like structures

Great Pyramid at Giza 2650 

32 First clear evidence of Olmec use of zero--an invention, widely described as the
most important mathematical discovery ever made, which did not occur in Eurasia
until about 600 A.D., in India (zero was not introduced to Europe until the 1200s
and not widely used until the 1700s)

800-840 A.D. Sudden collapse of most central Maya cities in the face of severe
drought and lengthy war

Vikings briefly establish first European settlements in North America. 1000 

Reconstruction of Cahokia, c. 1250 A.D.* 

Abrupt rise of Cahokia, near modern St. Louis, the largest city north of the Rio Grande.
Population estimates vary from at least 15,000 to 100,000.

Black Death devastates Europe. 1347-1351 

1398 Birth of Tlacaélel, the brilliant Mexican strategist behind the Triple Alliance
(also known as the Aztec empire),which within decades controls central Mexico,
then the most densely settled place on Earth.

The Encounter: Columbus sails from Europe to the Caribbean. 1492 The Encounter:
Columbus sails from Europe to the Caribbean.

Syphilis apparently brought to Europe by Columbus's returning crew. 1493 

Ferdinand Magellan departs from Spain on around-the-world voyage. 1519 
Sixteenth-century Mexica drawing of the effects of smallpox** 
Cortes driven from Tenochtitlán, capital of the Triple Alliance, and then gains
victory as smallpox, a European disease never before seen in the Americas,
kills at least one of three in the empire.

1525-1533 The smallpox epidemic sweeps into Peru, killing as much as half the population
of the Inka empire and opening the door to conquest by Spanish forces led by Pizarro.

1617 Huge areas of New England nearly depopulated by epidemic brought by shipwrecked
French sailors.

English Pilgrims arrive at Patuxet, an Indian village emptied by disease, and survive on stored
Indian food, renaming the village Plymouth. 1620 

*Courtesy Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville, Ill., painting by Michael Hampshire.
**Courtesy Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, N.M. (Bernardino de Sahagún,
Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España,
 1547-77). 

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. In a riveting and fast-paced history, massing archeological, anthropological, scientific and
literary evidence, Mann debunks much of what we thought we knew about pre-Columbian America. Reviewing
the latest,not widely reported research in Indian demography, origins and ecology, Mann zestfully demonstrates
that long before any European explorers set foot in the New World, Native American cultures were flourishing
with a high degree of sophistication. The new researchers have turned received wisdom on its head.

For example, it has long been believed the Inca fell to Pizarro because they had no metallurgy to produce
steel for weapons. In fact, scholars say, the Inca had a highly refined metallurgy, but valued plasticity over
strength.

What defeated the Inca was not steel but smallpox and resulting internecine warfare. Mann also shows that
the Maya constructed huge cities and governed them with a cohesive set of political ideals. Most notably,
according to Mann, the Haudenosaunee, in what is now the Northeast U.S., constructed a loose confederation
of tribes governed by the principles of individual liberty and social equality. The author also weighs the evidence
that Native populations were far larger than previously calculated. Mann, a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly
and Science, masterfully assembles a diverse body of scholarship into a first-rate history of Native America and
its inhabitants. 56 b&w photos, 15 maps.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Collector asks for your 1968 pennies
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, November 30, 2007 9:13 AM permalink
This guy is asking you to send him pennies minted in 1968. He will add it to his collection of other
1968 pennies and put you name on the contributors' list. The current total is 9,887 pennies.
Won't you please help him in this worthy endeavor?

The 1968 penny collection began on September 27th, 1999 with just a single 1968 penny, and over the
years it has steadily grown both in size and the number of contributors.
The goal of this website is to keep the collection growing indefinitely by soliciting 1968 pennies
from as many people as possible. This is a group effort.

Everybody who contributes pennies to the 1968 penny collection will be featured on this website.

Quality and condition of pennies is unimportant, as all certifiable 1968 pennies (whether uncirculated
& shiny, or well-worn & grimy) are accepted and added to the collection equally.

All pennies are 100% 1968 guaranteed, and this collection is never to be cashed in, as its value as
a collector's item is greater than its monetary value.

Of the 4,858,503,583 pennies minted in 1968, an untold number have been forever lost to history,
which is why it is important to save the remaining 1968 pennies NOW while they are still relatively
easy to find. If every American donated just one 1968 penny, the collection would number in the
hundreds of millions.

          Link http://www.1968pennies.com/
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         http://www.1968pennies.com/evolution.htm

100 devided onto into 4,858,503,583 = 48,585,035.83

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Anonymous said...
Incredibly boring.
1:34 PM
Anonymous said...
hehe.. it's a not-so-known fact that pennies minted in 1968 (and years prior) are made of copper
(expensive), while 1969 and years following are made of a nickel-zinc alloy (cheap).
with the prices of copper on global markets steadily rising, scrap copper has become something
of a commodity. a penny, by weight, is worth more than one us cent :)
don't be surprised if one day this nostalgic collection of pennies gets melted down for good cash..
2:27 PM
Anonymous said...
Hahahahah... Ebay!
8:08 PM
David S said...
You should sort the contribution list by number of pennies contributed. Then it's also contest
to get as high on the list as you can.
10:27 AM
MASTERbate said...
i was looking 4 1968 penis and then i found this!! I'm so glad :D there are people with a stranger fettish
3:43 PM

That's a half full jar or half empty jar worth more with the price of copper pennies beyond
there dollar value. So milt them all down sell it by the pound...

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Ocean temps, sea level increases 50% higher then previously thought

June 20, 2008

New research suggests that ocean temperature and associated sea level increases between 1961
and 2003 were 50% larger than estimated in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
 report.

The results are reported in the June 19 edition of the journal Nature. An international team of
researchers, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory climate scientist Peter Gleckler,
compared climate models with improved observations that show sea levels rose by 1.5 mm per year
in the period from 1961-2003. That equates to an approximately 2½-inch increase in ocean levels
in a 42-year span.

The ocean warming and thermal expansion rates are more than 50% larger than previous estimates
for the upper 300 m of oceans.

The research corrected for small but systematic biases recently discovered in the global ocean
observing system, and uses statistical techniques that “infill” information in data-sparse regions.
 The results increase scientists’ confidence in ocean observations and further demonstrate that
climate models simulate ocean temperature variability more realistically than previously thought.

“This is important for the climate modeling community because it demonstrates that the climate
models used for assessing sea-level rise and ocean warming tie in closely with the observed results,
” Gleckler said.

Climate model data were analyzed from 13 different modeling groups. All model data were obtained
from the WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset archived at the LLNL’s Program for Climate Model Diagnosis
and Intercomparison (PCMDI).

Although observations and models confirm that recent warming is greatest in the upper ocean, there
are widespread observations of warming deeper than 700 m.

Results were compared with recent estimates of other contributions to sea-level rise including
glaciers, ice caps, Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and thermal expansion changes in the deep
 ocean. When these independent lines of evidence are examined collectively, the story is more
consistent than found in earlier studies.

The oceans store more than 90% of the heat in the Earth’s climate system and act as a temporary buffer
 against the effects of climate change. The ocean warming and thermal expansion rates are 50% larger
than previous estimates for the upper 700 m of oceans, and greater than that for the upper 300 m.

“This is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak,” Gleckler says. “Our ability to quantify structural
 uncertainties in observationally based estimates is critically important. This study represents important
progress.”

The team involved researchers from the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CSIRO),
the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre and LLNL.

Founded in 1952, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a national security laboratory,
with a mission to ensure national security and apply science and technology to the important
issues of our time.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is managed by Lawrence Livermore National Security,
LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.

To see full-size charts of this research, go to:

https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news/news_releases/2008/NR-08-06-07.html

SOURCE: National Science Foundation

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 Examining the Reputation of Columbus
An Essay by Jack Weatherford

Christopher Columbus' reputation has not survived the scrutiny of history, and today we know that
he was no more the discoverer of America than Pocahontas was the discoverer of Great Britain.
Native Americans had built great civilizations with many millions of people long before Columbus
wandered lost into the Caribbean.

Columbus' voyage has even less meaning for North Americans than for South Americans because
Columbus never set foot on our continent, nor did he open it to European trade. Scandinavian
Vikings already had settlements here in the eleventh century, and British fisherman probably fished
the shores of Canada for decades before Columbus. The first European explorer to thoroughly
document his visit to North America was the Italian explorer Giovanni Caboto, who sailed for
England's King Henry VII and became known by his anglicized name, John Cabot. Caboto arrived
in 1497 and claimed North America for the English sovereign while Columbus was still searching for
India in the Caribbean. After three voyages to America and more than a decade of study, Columbus
still believed that Cuba was a part of Asia, South America was only an island, and the coast of Central
America was near the Ganges River.

Unable to celebrate Columbus' exploration as a great discovery, some apologists now want to
commemorate it as a great "cultural encounter." Under this interpretation, Columbus becomes
a sensitive genius thinking beyond his time in the passionate pursuit of knowledge and understanding.
The historical record refutes this, too.

Contrary to popular legend, Columbus did not prove that the world was round; educated people had
 known that for centuries. The Egyptian-Greek scientist Erastosthenes, working for Alexandria and
Aswan, already had measured the circumference and diameter of the world in the third century B.C.
Arab scientists had developed a whole discipline of geography and measurement, and in the tenth
century A.D., Al Maqdisi described the earth with 360 degrees of longitude and 180 degrees of latitude.
The Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai still has an icon --painted 500 years before Columbus --
which shows Jesus ruling over a spherical earth. Nevertheless,Americans have embroidered many such
legends around Columbus, and he has become part of a secular mythology for schoolchildren. Autumn
would hardly be complete in U.S. elementary schools without construction-paper replicas of the three
ships that Columbus sailed to America, or without drawings of Queen Isabella pawning her jewels to
finance Columbus' trip.

This myth of the pawned jewels obscures the true and more sinister story of how Columbus financed
his trip. The Spanish monarch invested in his excursion, but only on the condition that Columbus
would repay this investment with profit by bringing back gold, spices, and other tribute from Asia.

This pressing need to repay his debt underlies the frantic tone of Columbus' diaries as he raced from
one Caribbean island to the next, stealing anything of value.

After he failed to contact the emperor of China, the traders of India, or the merchants of Japan,
Columbus decided to pay for his voyage in the one important commodity he had found in ample supply --
human lives.

He seized 1,200 Taino Indians from the island of Hispaniola, crammed as many onto his ships as would
fit, and sent them to Spain, where they were paraded naked through the streets of Seville and sold as
slaves in 1495. Columbus tore children from their parents, husbands from wives. On board Columbus'
slave ships, hundreds died; the sailors tossed the Indian bodies into the Atlantic.

Because Columbus captured more Indian slaves than he could transport to Spain in his small ships,
he put them to work in mines and plantations which he, his family, and followers created throughout
the Caribbean. His marauding band hunted Indians for sport and profit -- beating, raping, torturing,
killing, and then using the Indian bodies as food for their hunting dogs. Within four years of Columbus'
arrival on Hispaniola, his men had killed or exported one-third of the original Indian population of
 300,000.

This was the great cultural encounter initiated by Christopher Columbus. This is the event celebrated
each year on Columbus Day.

The United States honors only two men with federal holidays bearing their names.

In January we commemorate the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr., who struggled to lift the blinders of
racial prejudice and to cut the remaining bonds of slavery in America. In October, we honor Christopher
Columbus, who opened the Atlantic slave trade and launched one of the greatest waves of genocide
known in history.

Author Note

Jack Weatherford is Professor of Anthropology at Macalaster College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
He is author of Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World and
several other books, and he has appeared on "The Today Show," "ABC Evening News with Peter
Jennings," "Larry King," "All Things Considered," and other TV and radio programs.
The essay above is adapted from an article Professor Weatherford wrote in 1989 for the
Baltimore Evening Sun. Essay copyright © 2002, Jack Weatherford.

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Power on How to Recover US Influence in the World
Samatha Power offers some thoughts on fixing American foreign policy, in Harvard Magazine.


Can American foreign policy be fixed? Whether the alarms are caused by our plummeting global standing,
 our deadly war in Iraq, our democratization efforts (which have produced outcomes we don’t like), or
our often seemingly self-defeating efforts to curb terrorism, most Americans are now prepared to
acknowledge that the United States is in trouble abroad. Because of our current strategic, financial,
 and reputational predicament, much of what follows sounds directed at the Bush administration. But it
is essential that we acknowledge the degree to which this administration has exposed and exacerbated
structural fis sures that were evident long before it took office. If the United States is to turn
things around, it must identify the flaws in the conception and conduct of its foreign policy and fix
 what is fix able. Rather than leaving foreign policy to the “experts,” the rest of us must insist
that our government play a role in the world that is more attentive to the values and long-term interests
 of its citizens.


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The man who heard his paintbox hiss
From The Telegraph:

Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky is widely credited with making the world's first truly abstract
paintings, but his artistic ambition went even further. He wanted to evoke sound through sight and create
the painterly equivalent of a symphony that would stimulate not just the eyes but the ears as well. A new
exhibition at Tate Modern, Kandinsky: Path to Abstraction, shows not only how he removed all recognisable
 subjects and objects from Western art around 1911, but how he achieved a new pictorial form of music.

Kandinsky is believed to have had synaesthesia, a harmless condition that allows a person to appreciate
sounds, colours or words with two or more senses simultaneously. In his case, colours and painted marks
triggered particular sounds or musical notes and vice versa. The involuntary ability to hear colour, see
music or even taste words results from an accidental cross-wiring in the brain that is found in one in
2,000 people, and in many more women than men.

Synaesthesia is a blend of the Greek words for together (syn) and sensation (aesthesis). The earliest
 recorded case comes from the Oxford academic and philosopher John Locke in 1690, who was bemused by
 "a studious blind man" claiming to experience the colour scarlet when he heard the sound of a trumpet.

More here.

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Opening Eyes, Belatedly, to Paul Klee
From The Washington Post:

 "Klee and America," on view at the Phillips Collection, offers alternate explanations for our country's
slow warming to the idiosyncratic painter. This nation, after all, did accept him, although the embrace was
 warmest after his death.

The artist's American market witnessed its first uptick toward the end of his career, when his reputation
in Europe soured due to Nazi interference. In the early 1930s, he benefited from the efforts of a strong
cohort of expatriate American dealers who pushed his work stateside -- and by the middle of that decade,
his work found Americans sympathetic to his talent and his persecution. Later in the 20th century his impact
 was clear, but it's been 20 years since Americans saw a major Klee show. If we struggle to conjure a Klee
in our minds, perhaps we can be forgiven our fuzzy-headedness.


The nearly 80 works in "Klee and America," organized by Houston's Menil Collection, serve as a barometer of
 the artist's rise in this nation's consciousness during his lifetime. Only those paintings and works on
paper that landed on U.S. soil are on view.

More here.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061600353.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061600353_pf.html

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Correction to This Article
A June 18 article in the Arts section said Paul Klee's "Twittering Machine" is on view at the Phillips Collection. It is not.
Opening Eyes, Belatedly, to Paul Klee

By Jessica Dawson
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, June 18, 2006; N01

A Paul Klee exhibition in the United States is bound to prompt a question:

What, exactly, does a Paul Klee painting look like?

We Americans aren't likely to know. Although the Swiss-born artist's fame came easily enough in Europe --
 where his career flowered in the decades before his death in 1940 from scleroderma -- those on this side
 of the Atlantic missed the memo itemizing Klee's talent and influence.

Perhaps that's because the artist never traveled stateside and never really wanted to. Perhaps Americans
 didn't cotton to Klee's jittery lines, off-note color schemes and childlike surrealism. Or maybe his
reputation as a fringe-dwelling visionary turned people off.

"Klee and America," on view at the Phillips Collection, offers alternate explanations for our country's
slow warming to the idiosyncratic painter. This nation, after all, did accept him, although the embrace
 was warmest after his death.

The artist's American market witnessed its first uptick toward the end of his career, when his reputation
in Europe soured due to Nazi interference. In the early 1930s, he benefited from the efforts of a strong
cohort of expatriate American dealers who pushed his work stateside -- and by the middle of that decade,
his work found Americans sympathetic to his talent and his persecution.

Later in the 20th century his impact was clear, but it's been 20 years since Americans saw a major Klee
show. If we struggle to conjure a Klee in our minds, perhaps we can be forgiven our fuzzy-headedness.

The nearly 80 works in "Klee and America," organized by Houston's Menil Collection, serve as a barometer
 of the artist's rise in this nation's consciousness during his lifetime. Only those paintings and works
on paper that landed on U.S. soil are on view.

Tracing Klee's relationship to the United States through the pictures Americans bought is an unusual
curatorial tack, one that scholars might delight in viewing. For the everyday museum visitor, though,
the exhibition performs a more urgent task: It shows us what Klee's pictures look like.

"Klee and America," it should be noted, is no survey. Only 10 percent of Klee's output is held by Americans,
 so this show registers the tastes of a discrete collecting population. The accompanying catalogue, a 315-page
 behemoth that's richly illustrated and thoroughly researched, parses the details of transatlantic Klee
transactions and the early-20th-century tastemakers who brought his work here.

We learn about Katherine S. Dreier, who in the 1920s founded Societe Anonyme in collaboration with Marcel
Duchamp and Man Ray and organized Klee's first one-man show in the United States, in 1924. We learn that six
 years after that, Alfred Barr -- a man whose reputation requires no further gilding -- mounted the largest
solo show of Klee's work outside Europe, at the Museum of Modern Art; Klee was the first living European
artist to receive a solo show there. Also found in the catalogue's pages: The notion that Klee didn't gain
 traction here until his fortunes fell in Nazi Germany.

You'll have to crack the catalogue to get the details. The Phillips exhibition is mercifully free of
didacticism. "Klee and America" asks us, quite simply, to look. And we've got some excellent pictures from
 the 1920s and '30s to feast on.

Many of Klee's pictures were made in Germany, where he spent most of his life. After moving to Munich at
the turn of the century and abandoning a career as a concert violinist (he would continue to play all his
 life), he began painting lessons. Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, himself fresh from a career change, shared
 painting instructor Franz von Stuck, an artist specializing in the macabre themes of late symbolism and
art nouveau.

Although Kandinsky and Klee shared a belief in the spiritual nature of art and its eruption from deep human
 drives, their work took very different forms.

When Klee worked in abstraction, as he did in "Gradation, Red-Green (Vermilion)," a 1921 watercolor on view
 at the Phillips, he never approached Kandinsky's bravado of color and scale. Klee's exercise in color and
composition is much more intimate and subdued than any Kandinsky. Most of the Klees here are the size of
postcards or notebook paper. (A few get larger as he approaches his final years. Most suffer a little for it.)

Although Klee lived in Germany, a strong strain of French surrealism ran through his pictures. The twitchy
lines and oddball creatures of Klee's works from the 1920s show why the French considered him one of the
fathers of dada. At the Phillips, the Duchampian "Twittering Machine" is on view, as is the anxiously Freudian
 "Girl With Doll's Pram," where the little girl's breasts are the size of Hindenburgs.

For most of the 1920s, Klee taught at the Bauhaus and later at the Dusseldorf Academy. But his time in Germany
 ended badly. His teaching emphasized individualism, and the Nazis found his lessons suspect, dismissing him
from the Dusseldorf position in 1933. Several years later, Germany exhibited some of his most childlike work
in its degenerate-art exhibition. Klee spent his final years in exile in Switzerland.

Klee's waning European fortunes offered more opportunities for Americans to acquire him. In "Klee and America,"

 wall labels detailing provenance read like small-scale society rags. That the picture called "Plan of a Castle"
 (a spatial exercise in floating polygons) belonged to Philip Johnson in the years 1948 to 1961 comes as no
 surprise, given the architect's taste for geometry. That Johnson also owned the childlike ink drawing "Not
Without Heart" (1928) -- in which Klee renders a dachshund out of a parallelogram with charming naivete --
seems rather out of Johnson's character. (A few years later, the collecting stars realigned when the piece
turned up in gimlet-penned draftsman Andy Warhol's cache.)

Among the Important People who acquired Klees was Duncan Phillips. Visitors to this leg of "Klee and America"
get a special treat: a re-creation of the Klee room that Phillips maintained for nearly 40 years, beginning in
 1948. In a former sewing room on the second floor of the museum mansion, 13 tiny Klees hung shoulder-to-shoulder
 for the enjoyment of thousands of visitors, Kenneth Noland and Mark Rothko among them.

That little group, perhaps the strongest subset of "Klee and America," reminds us what fun Klee is, and what
peculiar attraction his works offer.

Although the museum plans to rehang the Klee room after "Klee and America" ends, the when and
where of that arrangement remain uncertain. For the time being, at least, our chance is now.

Klee and America at the Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW, Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.,
 Thursday 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m., Sunday noon-5 p.m., through Sept. 10. $12 adults, $10 age 62 and
older and students. Free to those 18 and younger and museum members. Call 202-387-2151 or visit
 http://www.phillipscollection.org/ .

© 2006 The Washington Post Company

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Klee and America
"Klee and America," a new show at the Phillips Collection, explores American reaction to painter
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November 19, 2007
Our work is not done
Source:

*Phillips, Gary W., PhD. “Chance Favors the Prepared Mind: Mathematics and Science Indicators
from Comparing States and Nations.” American Institutes for Research. 14 Nov 2007. American
Institutes for Research. 18 Nov 2007
 <http://www.air.org/publications/documents/phillips.chance.favors.the.prepared.mind.pdf>.

I picked this up from David Warlick's blog 2¢ Worth:

According to the National Science Foundation (NSF, http://www.nsf.gov/statistics), the average U.S.
citizen understands very little science. For example:

- 66% do not understand DNA, “margin of error,” the scientific process, and do not believe in evolution.
- 50% do not know how long it takes the earth to go around the sun, and a quarter does not even know that
the earth goes around the sun.
- 50% think humans coexisted with dinosaurs and believe antibiotics kill viruses.

On the other hand, according to the NSF, the general public believes in a lot of pseudoscience.

- 88% believe in alternative medicine.
- 50% believe in extrasensory perception and faith healing.
- 40% believe in haunted houses and demonic possession.
- 33% believes in lucky numbers, ghosts, telepathy, clairvoyance, astrology, and that UFOs are aliens from space.
- 25% believes in witches and that we can communicate with the dead. *

Now clearly science and belief can co-exist. That's the foundation of the separation of religion and state as well
 as people's basic rights. It is still distressing to me that so much knowledge is required to be taught to ensure
 that people can use the information wealth that is provided to them through such tools as databases and search
engines. Can we fill the gap through information professionals for the most important questions of our time?

Stephen

Posted by stephen at November 19, 2007 5:44 PM

Comments
I think the coolest job in the world would be Public Science Librarian. Imagine a library with a lab
where you did whatever cool science program you wanted. Mentos and Diet Coke would be a rocking program.

Posted by: BigE at November 20, 2007 10:45 AM


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