…and we fell for it.
Living in Paris in April 1784, Benjamin Franklin wrote an article — fully tongue in cheek, that suggested a way that Parisians might save money on candle wax and lamp oil. (Read it here: Ben Franklin’s Essay on Daylight Saving.) Though meant as a joke, Americans and much of the western […]
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Ben Franklin pulled Paris’s leg…
Published March 8th, 2008 in environment, fallacies, Bizarre, Innovation, Body & Mind, Climate and Human World. 6 CommentsWhat’s behind all this, an alien conspiracy? Is the government hiding something from us? Well, I think we all know what is going on. And if you don’t know, you need to get informed. For anyone who has observed the skies for more than a few years, it is obvious that stars are disappearing. And […]
Hot pink flying saucers!
Published December 3rd, 2007 in Bizarre, Photos, Climate, atmospheric events and Science. 6 CommentsHot pink flying saucers, enormous six-legged pigs, the Michelin Man, the Grim Reaper — there are strange sights to be seen in clouds!!
Downtown Denver was covered with a stratocumulus stratiformus opacus layer yesterday morning, with the perlucidus variety visible to the East. The underside was well defined and lumpy, varying from light gray to medium gray with a dark bluish tinge. No, this was not the work of some terrorist mastermind filling the city with some kind […]
I saw the first signs of fall the other day - two yellowing cottonwood leaves liberally tinged with leftover green splotches from summer. These were on the ground, not on the tree, and in fact I could see no yellow in the tree itself. Truth be told, an occasional yellow leaf anytime during the growing […]