I’ve enjoyed Spudis’s view of things for several years now; he spoke eloquently during the Aldridge Commission hearings shortly after the “new vision” was announced. I had the chance to meet him in 2002 (as I recall) while he was still in Houston; he took me down to the library and showed me some of [...]

Paul Roberts: The end of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World – Copyright 2004 Houghton Mifflin; 389 pages.

In “The end of Oil”, journalist Paul Roberts provides a thorough
review of not only why we need to reduce our need for oil, but why
we need to start weaning ourselves off every other traditional
fossil energy [...]

Hare’s research was published in the October 2005 issue of Animal Behaviour: Functional morphology of Richardson’s ground squirrel, Spermophilus richardsonii, alarm calls: the meaning of chirps, whistles and chucks – subscription required to read the full article.

They key point from the abstract seems to be “Multiple acoustic parameters of Richardson’s ground squirrel alarm vocalizations thus [...]

This article now suggests that these baby black holes may warp the surrounding space-time “membrane” (or “brane”) to the extent that it actually wraps around the hole and reconnects, leaving the black hole off in a new, separate, “brane”, effectively creating a tiny new universe in that region.

The effect is dependent on how “flexible” the [...]