Reckless - Korean War Horse Hero

Here is a 4-minute video describing a horse that served with the marines during the Korean war.

Six Tips for Perfect Stargazing

Interesting article from Discovery News:

http://news.discovery.com/space/six-stargazing-tips-astronomy.html

Google Public Data Explorer

Google has made available a new service that allows you to easily explore a number of publicly available sources of data.  For example, you can view how the federal deficit as a percentage of GDP has changed over the years.  Several different visualization options are available including line and bar graphs and overlays on Google maps.  

The service is available at http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory.

NY Times Article Features Byrd Case Before NC Supreme Court

My sister-in-law Erwin Byrd was quoted in a NY Times article that describes a suit before the NC Supreme Court.  Erwin is a lawyer with Legal Aid of North Carolina who has brought the suit to the NC Supreme Court to contest very harsh punishments doled out to a group of students involved in an fight.

Founder of Weather Channel Beleives Global Warming Hypothesis is Disproved

In this 7-minute video, John Coleman, a meteorologist who founded the Weather Channel, argues that the global warming hypothesis has been disproved.  He argues that CO2 is just a trace greenhouse gas that has little impact on the world's climate.  Temperatures correlate much more closely to solar activity than to carbon levels in the atmosphere. Temperatures have actually decreased in the past several years while carbon in the atmosphere is increasing.