Kevin’s Blog

Yay: To clean air, aid climate, China looks to end polluters’ perks.

I think central china could host some pretty huge solar farms. With the right technology, products, and education, solar power might be able to displace coal as the main source of energy.

The University of Washington is preparing a time capsule.

The new capsule will be filled with digital media, carrying images of graffiti and video and focusing on “communication from a global perspective,” said Coma Te, a 20-year-old senior who was one of six students who created the new capsule. - Komo TV

Digital media? Will people still have the technology to play h.264 files 50 years from now?

I drove behind a biodiesel Volkswagen Jetta today.

It smelled like a French Fry on Fire.

The only thing preventing me from hopping onto a plane and making a long-term excursion to China is the extreme pollution problem they have.

And oddly, that’s the huge motivation to go as well — to bring the rampant environmental disaster under control.

It seems Dr. Baily of Northwestern University has provided supporting evidence for the hypothesis I presented concerning gender and attractiveness.

Whether women describe themselves as straight or lesbian, “Their sexual arousal seems to be relatively indiscriminate — they get aroused by both male and female images,” Dr. Bailey said. “I’m not even sure females have a sexual orientation…”

- The New York Times (user: nobugs, pass: nobugs)