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Showing posts with label Weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weather. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Dark Day, Dark Mood? By Kathleen McGowan FROM Psychology Today

REPOSTED--THE PREVIOUS LINK WAS TO A WRONG ARTICLE--THIS ONE IS SHORTER! 
"On less sunny days, we compensate artificially, using more alcohol, coffee, tobacco, and chocolate to stimulate ourselves and elevate our mood."

Friday, January 15, 2010

Miami Braces for Refugees as Relatives Continue Search By LESLIE EATON FROM The Wall Street Journal

"Though financial donations are welcome, people hoping to donate water and other goods have often been stymied, and shunted from place to place trying to drop things off."

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Homeowners still waiting for Katrina checks FROM msnbc

NEW ORLEANS - Two-and-a-half years after Hurricane Katrina, tens of thousands of miserable homeowners are still waiting for their government rebuilding checks, and many complain they can’t even get their calls returned. But the company that holds the big contract to distribute the aid is doing quite well for itself.

ICF International of Fairfax, Va., has posted strong profits, gone public, landed additional multimillion-dollar government contracts, and, it was learned this week, secured a potentially big raise recently from the state of Louisiana.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Climate Map

Nov. 13, 1946: Artificial Snow Falls for the First Time

Quotes from the Wired article by Tony Long:

  1. Artificial snow, like so many other scientific innovations, was born out of wartime necessity.
  2. In this case, it began during World War II and experiments with the creation of artificial fog, meant to conceal ships at sea.
  3. Despite protests that artificial snow shouldn't be used because it messed with Mother Nature's design, it only took a few years for ski resorts to begin looking for ways to create the fake stuff for use during bad snow years.
  4. In addition to the ski industry, artificial snow is also popular on movie sets and in places where snow doesn't normally fall.

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