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Toxic Dump Too Close For Comfort
I’ve known for some time from the local papers that the site of the old Tollare paper mill is badly polluted. It’s only 1.6 km from my home, on the opposite shore of the Lännerstasundet inlet (one of...
View ArticleSwedes Produce Hot Water, Dump It Into Sea
For historical reasons having nothing to do with engineering or rationality, Swedish nuclear power plants dump a lot of warm cooling water into the sea. In a revealing blog entry, Paddy K offers an...
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Unsuccessfully Greening Public Transport
Skiing Break was action packed for the kids. Monday museum, Tuesday playland, Wednesday skiing with grampa, Thursday swimming, Friday museum & puppet theatre and a museum-organised LAN party for...
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Dan Simmons’s Scientific Let-Down
Dan Simmons published a wonderful, galaxy-spanning, mind-blowing sf novel in 1989: Hyperion. Then he followed it up with three more novels of which I have read two. They’re OK, but not as good as the...
View ArticleThe Value of Biodiversity
Occasioned by a comment on my recent entry on the movie Avatar and the Gaia hypothesis, here’s a re-run of a blog entry from March 2006. As comments to a recent entry, I’ve had an interesting...
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The Earth After Us
Jan Zalasiewicz is a geologist active at the University of Leicester. His 2008 book The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? is an interesting read even though the title does not...
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Dorrik Stow’s Vanished Ocean
In his fine new book Vanished Ocean, geologist Dorrik Stow uses the biography of one of our planet’s vanished oceans to teach the reader a wide range of veeery long-term perspectives on geological...
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2010 Enlightener & Obscurantist Awards
The Swedish Skeptics’ annual awards for 2010 were just announced. Åsa Vilbäck, MD, receives the Enlightener of the Year award, “… who has described diseases and treatments in an unbiased and...
View ArticleGlobal Population Speak-Out
This time of year I’ve repeatedly been taking part in the Global Population Speak-Out, reminding my Dear Readers that a lot of humanity’s main problems could (and will) be solved by shrinking the...
View ArticleThe True Steel of the Ancestors
Above-ground atomic explosions and reactor leaks during the past century have produced a pretty funny atmosphere full of exotic heavy isotopes. In radiocarbon calibration this error source is called...
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