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POPSHurrican Gustav -- News, Blogs, And Up To Date Reports For useful resource links on Hurricane Gustav as well as a list of news and newspaper websites in the Louisiana and Mississippi states, go directly to the blog post at http://coolsciencenews.blogspot.com/2008/09/hurrican-gustav-news-blogs-and-up-to.html
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POPSHow Oil Drilling Works As new sedimentary layers were deposited, they exerted intense pressure and heat on the source rock. The heat and pressure distilled the organic material into crude oil and natural gas. The oil flowed from the source rock and accumulated in thicker, more porous limestone or sandstone, called reservoir rock. Movements in the Earth trapped the oil and natural gas in the reservoir rocks between layers of impermeable rock, or cap rock, such as granite or marble. Modern oil geologists examine surface rocks and terrain, with the additional help of satellite images. However, they also use a variety of other methods to find oil. They can use sensitive gravity meters to measure tiny changes in the Earth's gravitational field that could indicate flowing oil, as well as sensitive magnetometers to measure tiny changes in the Earth's magnetic field caused by flowing oil. They can detect the smell of hydrocarbons using sensitive electronic noses called sniffers.
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POPSIce Shelf Collapses in Antarctica A trend of "extraordinary warming" over the past 50 years in Antarctica has caused the loss of several ice shelves, Matthias Braun of Bonn University, and Angelika Humbert of Münster University, said in a statement. The researchers also warned that the last strip of ice on Wilkins would disappear soon. "The remaining plate has an arched fracture at its narrowest position," they said, "making it very likely that the connection will break completely in the coming days." —Lauren Morse
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POPSLive Maps Hey someone just told me about Live maps, it's pretty cool cause it has traffic built in to the direction planning (like traffic.com) and also has aerial photo view like google, only you can also view "bird's eye" (isometric) and rotate all around, so it's amazing you can see all sides of the aerial view not just a top down satellite image!
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POPSCensoring Iraq Michael Yon went to Iraq initially at the behest of military friends who insisted that what Americans were seeing on the news wasn't an accurate reflection of the reality on the ground. Two of my friends died on consecutive days. When the charred remains of American contractors were strung from a bridge in Falluja, I put aside a book I was writing to attend the funerals. In Colorado we laid to rest a Special Forces friend who'd been killed in Samara; then on to Florida for the funeral of the friend who'd been murdered and mutilated in Falluja. A photo of the dang ling corpses won a Pulitzer. I purchased and borrowed the equipment required for the journey. Camera, satellite phone, laptop, body armor, helmet, and so on. Like most of the people who would later be called "alternative media," I bore these expenses myself, including the flights to Kuwait.
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POPSAntarctic Iceberg Calving The images are records of antarctic expeditions where amongst other things photos were taken of iceberg 'calvings,' where a large iceberg breaks up into smaller pieces. the pictures were taken from 2000, until the end of the Antarctic research season in 2006, on page 3. The clipped pictures,are icon sized, but can be seen with greater magnification at the site. Due to the relationship between surface area and volume, the smaller icebergs become, the quicker they melt
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POPSOur Earth as Art Welcome to the Earth as Art Gallery.Here you can view our planet through the beautiful images taken by the Landsat-7 satellite - and most recently, the Terra Satellite's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). This gallery of images uses the visceral avenue of art to convey the thrilling perspective of the Earth that satellites provide to the viewer.
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POPS Photo's Of Suspicious Syrian Site New commercial satellite photos show that a Syrian site believed to have been attacked by Israel last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what some analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor
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POPSBurning Man is no longer relevant I have a few friends (and a sister in law) who are "burners." I'm not and have always thought that the burners are a bit holier than thou which leaves a bad taste in my mouth for the whole event. The lack of environmental awareness amongst Burners only made what seemed me to be an overly commercial alterna-event even more mainstream. Anyone willing to push Burning Man back from the mainstream is a-ok by me.
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