Every summer wildfires wreak havoc across Southern California, but this year, land managers and agencies have mobilized fire crews and equipment to stop the flames before they spread. However, suppressing wildfires results in less carbon storage, says Scientific American. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, compared the biomass of California’s wild forests in the 1930s with those in the 1990s and found that: The density in mid-altitude conifer forests increased by 34 percent during the 60 years that elapsed. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom -- that more trees mean additional carbon storage -- they found that the amount of carbon held actually decreased by 26 percent in the same period. The logic behind the unanticipated findings comes down to the size of the trees that are being saved by fire suppression: Over the past few decades firefighters have stopped the ground blazes common in California that would have otherwise wiped out the ...
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Of the various ways California prisoners may try to be released from confinement early, only a few capable Southern California criminal defense lawyers are aware of a method called compassionate release. Prisoners are occasionally freed from prison if it can be show that they have six months or less to live, and that they no longer present a threat to society. The program is designed to ensure that prisoners who are terminally ill are no longer punished through imprisonment.
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Minnesota commit Hayo Carpenter, a 5-foot-11, 185-pound wide receiver from College of the Canyons (CA) CC, had ten catches for 236 yards and two touchdowns, breaking his own school record for receiving yards in a 36-27 win over El Camino College in the Southern California Playoff Semifinals. The Cougars (12-0) will face #3 seed Mt. San Antonio College (11-1) Saturday in the championship game.... more
Not just another day in Southern California … and a semi-legit reason for me to link a video by the under-undercard at one of my favorite college-era concerts: Public Enemy preceded by Ice-T preceded by these Irish tough-guys .
Nice little side-track when searching for that video, too. Damn do I miss when Eddie wasn’t such a dickhead. ... more
Hint: Don’t tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to s2 Vote(s)... more
In order to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy in 2009 (IYA2009), I plan on sharing lots of amazing space photographs and I’ll explain a little science behind them and why they’re so cool. I found a wealth of images online, so it will take time, my friends. Do yourself a favor and get a subscription to a space or science magazine for 2009. You won’t regret it! I spend at least an hour or two on a weekend looking through the likes of Astronomy and Scientific American... more
“Houston, we have a problem.”
Eagle this is Houston, what’s poppin? Over?
“Yeah, so.. I float over to where the cooler’s supposed to be, but in it’s place there’s this…I’m looking at this machine labeled “Urine Recycler”. Over.”
Don’t tell me it’s broken again! Dammit Timmy, I thought I told you to fix the Urine Recycler on the Endeavour!
“Houston, Houston: I don’t think it’s broken... more
Currently, there are 73 Americans serving life sentences for crimes they committed when they were 13 or 14 years old, a number far higher than in Europe, says the New York Times. The differences in the two approaches, legal experts say, are rooted in politics and culture: The European systems emphasize rehabilitation, while the American one stresses individual responsibility and punishment. Corrections professionals and criminologists here and abroad tend to agree that violent crime... more
Piracy has a harmful impact on U.S. produced copyright products and on the overall U.S. economy. In 2005, piracy conservatively cost motion pictures, sound recordings, business software and entertainment software/vide collectively at least $25.6 billion in lost revenue. Beyond the cost to the copyright industries, this lost revenue translates into lost production of legitimate copyright products, which in turn means lost wages and lost purchases of upstream products and services througho... more
WORLD BANK WEARY From: feeds.feedburner.com Post Date: 2007-10-19 06:19:54
As globalization transforms the world economy, the World Bank’s comparative advantage for lending to poor countries is gone and its role diminished, says Adam Lerrick, professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University. There are new competitors without the bank’s social wish list: China, Brazil, India and Russia are funding infrastructure and industry for even the poorest countries, to lock in access to raw materials and export markets. China alone will send $25 billion to ... more
Despite ample evidence to the contrary, liberal publications have devoted great space and attention to attacking the entire theory that lower tax rates can increase incentives for investment, saving and work, says Stephen Moore, senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial board. The quality of this discourse rarely rises above the level of trash talk. Nevertheless, some arguments are repeated with such regularity that they need to be addressed. One is that supply-... more
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