Jay Currie

India and Russia today signed a nuclear co-operation agreement, which paves the way for the building of about a dozen nuclear reactors in India, with Russian help, over the next few decades. the guardian

Rather than blowing billions on wind, the Ontario government might want to look at the steady, reliable, electric power which nuclear offers. [...]

Steve Jobs introduced the iPad. Some other guy will be talking to a bunch of people later today and making promises he can’t keep. Steve Jobs is the future, the other guy is public service unions and really big deficits.

iPad details here.

Warmists, cover your ears..or eyes…It ain’t the CO2 it was the CFCs:

“I didn’t see any CO2 effect on temperature or ozone depletion over the South Pole from 1956 to 2008,” explained Dr. Lu, surprised at how totally different the real-world measurements were from those that the climate model predicted. The real-world measurements showed CO2 to [...]

Look closer, however, at a microscopic level, and this place is pristine. There is no sign of a dangerous and contagious staph infection that killed tens of thousands of patients in the most sophisticated hospitals of Europe, North America and Asia this year, soaring virtually unchecked.

The reason: Norwegians stopped taking so many drugs.

Twenty-five years ago, [...]

After eight draft texts and all-day talks between 115 world leaders, it was left to Barack Obama and Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, to broker a political agreement. The so-called Copenhagen accord “recognises” the scientific case for keeping temperature rises to no more than 2C but did not contain commitments to emissions reductions to achieve [...]

“I thought, ‘Oh, God. Not that same old joke … And then in the sweetest voice she said, ‘I’m in Stockholm and I want to tell you about the Nobel Prize.’ ” yahoo news

I have to say, given that I hear this conversation between my homeschooled elder son Sam and his mildly scientifically challenged mum [...]

The trouble is, while resveratrol is found in many foods, it is present only in very low concentrations. Someone wanting to get a resveratrol dose equivalent to what we used in our mice studies would need to consume hundreds of bottles of red wine each day. David Sinclair, Seed Magazine

Anything for science and all…but seriously [...]

In a report issued in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it had discovered an additional 460 pounds of low-enriched uranium, a third more than Iran had previously disclosed. The agency made the find during its annual physical inventory of nuclear materials at Iran’s sprawling desert enrichment plant at Natanz. new york times

Why am [...]

Mr Forgan, who believes it will take 300 to 400 years for us to make contact with our neighbours, said: “I believe the estimate of 361 intelligent civilisations to be the most accurate. telegraph

361, not 360 or 364…Hmmm.