Leaking Air

NASA researchers close in on why Mars lost its atmosphere.

Sunrise on Mars

 

Well, kinda, given that the Phoenix lander is near one of the poles:

Alarmed by Ike

Jeff Masters isn’t liking what he’s seeing as Hurricane Ike rebuilds in the Gulf of Mexico. Texas is in the crosshairs:
Ike is likely to be a extremely dangerous major hurricane at landfall, and will likely do $10-$30 billion in damage. The chances of hundreds of people being killed in this storm is high if people [...]

Thinking Makes You Fat

Oh, wonderful:
A preliminary study from a group of researchers in Quebec suggest that working on a computer may have an additional impact on our waistlines: taxing mental effort appears to cause people to eat significantly more food, even though it doesn’t burn many more calories than sitting around and relaxing.

Science Explains Why the Yankees Suck

The New York Times, reporting on a new study by British psychologists who explain why it’s so hard to judge a line drive:
The problem Damon and Abreu face, the scientists say, is a product not only of human biology and the laws of physics, but also of our environment. We live, generally speaking, in a [...]

Damp Squib

Hurricanes are a fact of late-summer life even at the inland locale where I live. Mostly, they’re just annoying, much like earthquakes in Los Angeles. Occasionally they’re a much bigger deal. Hanna turned out to be nothing much. We got a boatload of rain and what sounded in the morning like just a little bit [...]