In Praise of Science

I owe my life to science.  And my livelihood.

I want to say thank you to scientist and science, of all kinds.  Yes there are bad things that science can be used for, but with out science, I wouldn't be alive.  Much less able to complain about them.

Tiny trackers reveal the incredible flight plans of the Arctic tern

Chasing daylight – tiny trackers reveal the incredible flight plans of the Arctic tern

Worth reading the entire blog entry there.

Update on Sprites (video since removed)

(updated Feb 2015, video and page were removed, no reason given)

Sprite Streamers: Storms' Hyper-Velocity Ball Lightning?

New high speed video of sprites above thunderstorms!

Massive high speed ball lightning? From the video it looks like the charges descend from above the storm! As ball lightning.

That is incredibly awesome.