O America, words fail me

Last night, over dinner, some friends and I worried about whether America will elect Sarah Palin for everything she is not. And then, I worried about being worried. And that made me worry some more. So I worried about that. Eventually, I thought, if the American people don’t know better,…

Ice, ice baby… going, going, gone

The yellow rubber ducky in your bathtub can be more useful than you think. NASA scientists are using ducks like this to track the movement (read recession) of glaciers in Greenland and Canada. Duck out of water? Thumbing through some old articles, I’ve been pondering the fate of the world’s…