Off topic: Last night I finished Bill Gates's "How to Prevent the Next Pandemic", and can recommend it to anyone interested in a thoughtful discussion of what the world got right -- and wro… (View Post)

From the WaPo: "The Republican presidential campaign of Nikki Haley on Monday announced plans to launch a $10 million ad buy in Iowa and New Hampshire starting in early December as she jockeys w… (View Post)

Some perspective on your PM's height: "Tyrone Curtis "Muggsy" Bogues (born January 9, 1965) is an American former basketball player. The shortest player ever to play in the National Ba… (View Post)

What we could do to prepare for a climate-changing eruption depends very much on how much warning we would have. If we had a hundred years to prepare and the world worked together -- I know, I know, … (View Post)

TimS said: "An eruption of the scale of Laki is unlikely. This is probably going to be a fissure eruption but no indication at the moment that it will be plinian or SO2 rich." I agree that … (View Post)