A quick, quirky tour of life in the West: Los Alamos scientists behaving badly, awful neighbors, kicking climate change to the curb, Ben Franklin’s kite on steroids and Help Wanted: A Wyomingite who can spell.
Los Alamos scientists blow up building with cannon
Cross a group of federal physicists with an unexplained need to recreate a Civil War-era cannon and mayhem is sure to ensue. And it did when a Dec. 16 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Occurrence Report noted scientists accidentally caused $3 million in damage to a building after testing a large-bore powder gun. Parts of the cannon were found outside.
The money quote from Peter Stockton, senior investigator at the Project on Government Oversight, “I must say that this is a new twist in the long history of screw-ups by Los Alamos.”
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No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life
New West.net describes a new collection of essays on being neighborly by author, poet and part-time Cheyenne resident Linda M. Hasselstrom as “a passionate, entertaining, and cranky companion in the landscape of the evolving West.”
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Moderate Dems: Climate Change Bill in 2010? Fuggedaboutit
Conservative Senators from coal, oil and manufacturing states get cold feet over curbing CO2 emissions, reports Talking Points Memo. I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling [on the Earth's future] is going on in here!
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Can you imagine the tail on that thing?
Saul Griffith thinks the next big breakthrough in renewable energy will be giant kites that generate electricity. Mother Nature News has the info and a video of Griffith explaining the concept at the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference.
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Spot the grammatical mistake win a prize job!
An embarrassingly revealing Craigslist job posting in Wyoming. Spelling bee champs encouraged to apply.
