Archive for the ‘Information’ Category

Underground Architecture

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Virginia Tech has an underground architecture building. Here’s what it looks like from aboveground. The white stuff is snow.
VT Underground Architecture Building

More photos at my flickr site.

Huge Crater Found in Egypt

Monday, March 6th, 2006

More evidence that the smaller of the wanderers sometimes cease their wandering: Huge Crater Found in Egypt.

The crater is about 19 miles (31 kilometers) wide, more than twice as big as the next largest Saharan crater known. It utterly dwarfs Meteor Crater in Arizona, which is about three-fourths of a mile (1.2 kilometers) in diameter.

Embarrassing the Angels

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Peggy Noonan has a thing or two to say about airport searches and the decline of polite society. Read entire.

Michael Barone: Who pays for the research?

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Actually, he calls the post: Who does research? But it really comes down to where the $ are dished out. I think he’s got it about right. Read entire.