Michael Wolf - Slashdot User

Comment don't read To Kill a Mockingbird! (Score 1) 796

by Michael Wolf on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @06:38PM (#45840233) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Are the Books Everyone Should Read?

It's soul-crushingly boring. All those years ago it had daring content, but now it's just long and tedious.

Try Pride and Prejudice. The great thing about it is that it's hilarious from the opening sentence. Also, it turns out that one of the seemingly odeous characters in part has some social anxiety problems that masquerade as something different, which some people on this website may be able to identify with. There are so many other interesting characters, some with completely obvious flaws, some whose appearances are completely deceptive, and some who are in the middle, straightforward but with issues going on that surprise even themselves.

The contrast between the two books couldn't be greater in terms of the pleasure you will get. And the second has more to teach about life as well, despite being written 100 years earlier.

Geoengineering To Cool the Earth Becoming Thinkable 419

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @08:07AM from the well-less-unthinkable dept.

johkir writes "As early as 1965, when Al Gore was a freshman in college, a panel of distinguished environmental scientists warned President Lyndon B. Johnson that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels might cause 'marked changes in climate' that 'could be deleterious.' Yet the scientists did not so much as mention the possibility of reducing emissions. Instead they considered one idea: 'spreading very small reflective particles' over about five million square miles of ocean, so as to bounce about 1 percent more sunlight back to space — 'a wacky geoengineering solution.' In the decades since, geoengineering ideas never died, but they did get pushed to the fringe — they were widely perceived by scientists and environmentalists alike as silly and even immoral attempts to avoid addressing the root of the problem of global warming. Three recent developments have brought them back into the mainstream." We've discussed some pretty strange ideas in the geoengineering line over the last few years.

Comment don't speculate (Score 1) 561

by Michael Wolf on Friday June 23, 2006 @12:36PM (#15590275) Attached to: Has My Cell Number Been Cloned?

The cloning is a red herring. Your bill is wrong. Tell them, ask them to fix it. You don't know if it's cloning, and you don't care. By throwing out irrelevant theories, you are just distracting from the real issue.

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