It’s not a joke, on Sunday, the British explorer Lewis Pugh swam for nearly 19 minutes in the open water at the North Pole. Until recently, the North Pole was constantly covered in thick ice, so Pugh did the swim to raise awareness of the devastating effects of global warming.
The water was -1.8°C and [...]

I was reading an older article in the NY Times this morning about how little the average American knows about science. I am sure that Canadian statistics wouldn’t be much better, but it makes you wonder how a democratic society can make intelligent decisions about issues like global warming or nuclear energy when they don’t have [...]

We are doing a lot of races this year and we are climbing, mountain biking and riding with everyone a few times a week, so it has been hard to keep organized. To help with this, I have decided to resurect the Team Wanderlust website.
I have started posting upcoming races on the site and will also [...]

SFGate is reporting on the rumours of the death of GM’s Hummer line. Sales have dropped 27% since last year and it has managed to be listed as one of the ten worst automobiles today. I loved the quote in the ten worst article,
While the H2 doesn’t come with hair plugs, it tells the world [...]

The much anticipated Wordpress 2.1 has been released into the wild and it is a big improvement over 2.0.7. Upgrading was easy and only took me 20 minutes for the six blogs that I host and all of my Plugins worked fine. Most of the time was spent backing up the databases and files [...]

It used to be that the idea of man living with dinosaurs was an idea that was left to cartoons and children’s imaginations, but since the Christian Right has gained such a strong power base in America, all that is changing.
Most of us have heard about the fights over teaching evolution vs. creationism in schools, [...]

It seems that Benny Hinn, the controversial TV televangelist, has decided that he needs a $30 million private jet in order to do God’s work. He only need $6 million for the down payment, so he recently sent a letter to his ministry asking that 6,000 people allow the Holy Spirit to work through [...]

Australia’s Hardy Wine company has introduced a one serving wine bottle with a detachable plastic wine glass. They call it the Shuttle and say that it will redefine the way people will drink their wine. You will be able to choose between Shiraz and Chardonnay packaged in a single serve acrylic wine bottle [...]

I hope that an article in yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer is not indicative of how low humanity is sinking, but today’s reports of five women killed by a serial murderer in England this week doesn’t help.
The Inquirer article is about the trial of Tyrone Spellman who ’snapped’ and killed his 17 month old daughter when she [...]

I read an interesting article in the Sunday Telegraph today that made me even more pessimistic about the prospects for peace in the Middle East. As most people know, I am a strong opponent of the war in Iraq and I feel strongly that it has, and will continue to, destabilize the region. [...]