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The Toba eruption at 77 ka was a very nice explanation for lot of interlocking mutually confirming data and now all that seems to be completely thrown over by Lane et al. Read the rest of this entry »
This open letter was motivated by reports of a brilliant teenage girl and star pupil with excellent grades being expelled from school and prosecuted as an adult following a quite harmless experiment bursting a plastic bottle through pressure and conducted in an examplarily safetey-conscious way. See the report in the Miami New Times 
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Jasechko’s model stands and falls on his assumption, that plant transpiration does not fractionate. Not only is that theoretically highly improbable, but Kahmen et al. have shown fractionation to be the case Read the rest of this entry »
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McLauchlan et al. offer little evidence for their assumed connection between nitrogen availability and isotopic signature. Their assumption of its being unchanged today seems totally unfounded. Besides lightning nitrogen fixation used to be mainly biological, with a huge preference for the common light nitrogen. Read the rest of this entry »
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For several reasons I was very sceptical about Scally’s extrapolation from single generation mutation rates to evolutionary time spans. (List of 2012-10-14, my comment 2012-09-27) Reading Fu it seems I was right to be. Read the rest of this entry »
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All issues of Pysikalische Blätter have been scanned and made freely available. While still in high school I used to read my father’s issues and I remember reading about climate warming there first, very probably Flohn 1981. The quality of the source made me accept the claim and probably was part of what led me to Nuclear Engineering later. Read the rest of this entry »
Dieser Brief als PDF.
Den Hintergrund finden Sie in dieser Pressemeldung.
Sehr geehrter Herr Bürgermeister Lemmermann,
sehr geehrte Damen und Herren im Rat,
wenn ich die Meldung von Radio Bremen richtig verstehe, wollen Sie künftig Frauen verbieten, unverschleiert und unbegleitet auf die Straße zu gehen, wegen des Risikos von Belästigung. Sie wollen zudem wegen des Risikos von Raubüberfällen allen Bürgern verbieten, auf der Straße Bargeld bei sich zu tragen, Read the rest of this entry »
Die Frühausgabe der ARD-Tagesschau meldete um 7 Uhr morgens am 2013-03-11:
„Japan gedenkt heute der Opfer der verheerenden Erdbeben- und Zunamikatastrophe vor zwei Jahren. Ein Erdbeben der Stärke 9 hatte damals den Nordosten des Landes erschüttert und eine bis zu zwanzig Meter hohe Zunamiwelle ausgelöst. In der Folge kam es zu einem Reaktorunfall im Kernkraftwerk Fukushima. Dabei kamen ungefähr 16.000 Menschen ums Leben. Tausende gelten immer noch als vermisst.“
Wer es nicht glauben mag, und dazu gibt es angesichts einer derart dreisten Verdrehung allen Grund, Read the rest of this entry »
