Improvised Flower Pot Fridge. This is impressive.

I gotta try this out camping when the cooler is too full of  food to chill enough beer.

Spotting a Hidden Handgun

Cosmic Rays can Affect the Climate through Cloud Formation.

Who would of thought.  The sun just utterly dwarfing the earth, can have a impact-full effect on earth even with the smallest fluctuations in its emissions 

This may explain why the ice caps on mars have been melting, or even before the use of fossil fuels we had ice ages and warming periods.

At least it seems now unique research is making it through the intellectual inertia of peer reviewed journals.

40th anniversary for the Stanford Prison Experiment Ending.

An interesting BBC documentary on the Stanford Prison Experiment. A rather flawed experiment, made out to be an indictment on humanity. Without clear top down direction it shows how something like Abu Greb can happen.

For more experiments on how the average person is just a few uncomfortable situations from being a Nazi, check out the following.

40th anniversary of Nixon Closing the Gold Window.

40 years ago Nixon took us off the Bretton Woods gold standard blaming speculators for what was decades of poor US fiscal policy.  The more things change the more they stay the same.  Paying for a war and social programs that we couldn't afford caused a crisis in confidence.  Same then as now.  Gold or a AAA rating from S+P it is always something other than poor government policy that is to blame by politicians.

UPDATE:  Gold closed today at $1763 oz.. 40 years ago we closed the gold window at $35 oz..  This represents a 10.3% compounded annual return in gold.  Not too bad for something that you can bury in the backyard instead of trusting your money to a "too big to fail" bank or Wall Street.

Another way to look at it is a dollar was 1/35 oz of gold in 1971 and is now a 1/1763 oz of gold.

Dave Mustaine Talking about the Endgame.

United States note, not a federal reserve note, nowhere does it say federal reserve.

The Cold War Never Ended?