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Thomas Kinkade, drunk driver — Sacramento Bee
The death of the sun’s “magnetic soul”? — New Scientist
England 1-1 USA in lego — Guardian
McCain tweets words of wisdom to Jersey Shore’s Snooki — NYT
Congressman behaving badly — YouTube
These are beautiful, but are they true? If so, now I know what I’ve been doing wrong all these years — Design You Trust
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This is a good example of the New Scientist writing style: get readers excited with disaster scenarios and pop-culture references and then slip in a little science. The problem is that the casual reader will only remember the former. This seems to be the key line: “Another example is the Maunder minimum, the period from 1645 to 1715 during which sunspots virtually disappeared and solar activity plummeted.” In other words, the sun does have periods of low sun-spot activity and the consequences for our planet are mild.
The magazine section at the front of Nature is a much better read for the interested layman.
Not sure if there is a history with Mr. Kinkade, but there should probably be an alleged or arrested in there.
hmm, seem unable to access the Design You Trust link, Felix.
I am not sure about your Kinkade reference either. Are you sad your favourite artist hath fallen? Did you scrape off the paint and see the numbers beneath? Are you now relishing in his predicament?