New Earth Records

Visualizing Climate Data in Phase Space

I've been reading the online draft (pdf) of Ray Pierrehumbert's excellent new book on climate science, Principles of Planetary Climate. On page 54, there's a nice graph of ocean 18O isotope levels over the past four million years. Using this data, we can infer how much of the planet's water was bound up in ice, as a function of time. The graph reminds me of the kind of trace you get from a nonlinear system that's in a chaotic state, so it seems like a neat idea to visualize this data in phase sp...

Violinist.com interview with Rachel Barton Pine

By Laurie Niles: After meeting Rachel Barton Pine and talking with her about her life and her projects, just one word comes to my mind to describe one of our most beloved members of this site: Tireless. This is a woman who practiced every single day, from her first violin lesson age age three until she was 13 -- even if it was Christmas or her birthday or she had the flu. As a teenager, she was practicing up to eight hours a day, learning the solo repertoire at a voracious pace and also playing ...

Steve Fossett: Gone but not forgotten, unfortunately

I don’t mean to be cruel, but Steve Fossett is becoming a lot more interesting in death than he was in life. I’ve always had a hard time getting excited about Fossett. No doubt he was a fine man who is deeply missed by his family and friends. I just couldn’t figure out why I knew who he was, or why his life attracted more media attention than, say, Joey Chestnut, the U.S. hot dog eating champion, who held on to his title on July 4 with a spirited defence against arch-rival Takeru Kobayashi...

11 Oct 08 | *** TRAUMFÄNGER *** POLYEIDOS 3 YEARS B - DAY | DÜSSELDORF / NRW (Germany)

*** TRAUMFÄNGER *** POLYEIDOS 3 YEARS B - DAY : Live: ° ° ° OCELOT ° ° ° ( zaikadelic recs - swiss ) 4 HOURS LIVE SET :-D http://www.myspace.com/ocelotvectorselector Aaron Peacock aka Ocelot makes music and travels Planet Earth playing it at parties and festivals. Aaron came from a musical family and plays lots of instruments. As a child he wanted to be an orchestra conductor when he grew up. The San Francisco psy scene of the 90's greatly influenced him as did the culture of psychedelic...

George Harrison - Somewhere In England (1981)[www.ilovetorrents.com] (5S/1L)

George Harrison - Somewhere In England --------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist...............: George Harrison Album................: Somewhere In England Genre................: Rock Source...............: NMR Year.................: 1981 Ripper...............: NMR Codec................: LAME 3.92 Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps) Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz Tags.................:...

20 questions for … Indigo Girl Amy Ray

Amy Ray talks the talk - her lyrics fearlessly nail issues of violence, environmental issues and other pressing topics; her Indigo Girls concerts often serve as fundraisers for various deserving organizations. And she walks the walk as a human rights activist on many fronts, including co-founder of the human rights / environmental organization, Honor the Earth. While on a flight from New York to her hometown in Georgia, she penned these sometimes poignant, sometimes playful responses to "PopMatt...

The Best, Weirdest, and Most Wonderful Gadget Designs of 2008 [IDEA 2008 Awards]

The 2008 International Design Excellence Awards are in. These are like the Oscars of the industrial design world, taking the pulse of what's going on, highlighting tons of weird and wonderful gadgets. We have picked the best, the weirdest, and the most wonderful, from laser liners that look like Wall-E's Eve evil twin, microwave containers with lids, and wall-mounted home server enclosures straight out of Star Trek, to self-propelled sprayers (like me), NYC condom dispensers/wrappers (no connec...

New report shows provincial action on climate change heating up

QUEBEC CITY – Most provinces are stepping up with strong targets and policies to reduce greenhouse gases in the absence of federal leadership on climate change, says a new David Suzuki Foundation report. “The leadership vacuum at the federal level is being filled with action from the provinces and territories,” said Dale Marshall, report author and a climate change policy analyst with the Suzuki Foundation. “Most provinces and territories realize the urgency of climate change and they a...

within Temptation: video interview with Sharon Den Adel available

Scuzz Tv conducted an interview with vocalist Sharon den Adel of the Dutch symphonic metallers Within Temptation at this year's Download festival, which was held June 13-15 at Donington Park, Leicestershire, UK. Watch the chat below. Within Temptation will release a brand new double-DVD, titled "Black Symphony", on September 22. It will also be available as a double-CD and a special Blu-Ray disc. Check out the cover artwork below. The band's most ambitious staging to date, Black Symphony was a u...

2008 Chrysler Jeep Superstores Bayview Mackinac Race

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. -- New "Thunder Bay" course records were set by both a mono-hull and catamaran yachts in the 84th sailing of the 2008 Chrysler Jeep Superstores Bayview Mackinac Race race. The 60-foot twin hull Earth Voyager and single hull 86-foot Windquest rocketed to finish the 254-mile course from Port Huron to Mackinac Island.