Who is 9 years old and just got 1st place in his school science fair? This guy:

Congratulations Connor! His aquaponics exhibit was selected to go to the Discovery Museum to display alongside other winning entries. w00t!

David Rives is known for his presentation "The Heavens Declare the Glory of God" and his national lectures on Creation and biblical astronomy. His work has been featured internationally through Faith TV, SkyAngel, Vision Forum, WND, The History Channel and more. His GPS observatory-class telescope allows David to share his passion for the heavens with others through astro-photography and astronomical events.

(http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/discover-the-hoax-at-heart-of-evolution/)

Way cool quantum levitation. Floats like it's on invisible rails, but not like other magnets. The structure makes it so it can be positioned and "stuck" above the magnet in orientations that I haven't seen before.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xuEY2bm-W50)

It appears the the NSF is letting down Al Gore a bit here. Moonbattery says,

This won’t come as much of a surprise — except to moonbats:

According to a recent study funded by the National Science Foundation’s Paleoclimate Program, climate change may be far less sensitive to carbon dioxide fluctuations than previously predicted.

The most notable predictions of CO2-based climate change came from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 2007. The report suggested that should the CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere double from pre-Industrial standards (pre-1850), it could result in a global 2 to 4.5 degree Celsius (3.6 – 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit) temperature increase worldwide. The mean level in this finding was 3 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit). This, of course, would be catastrophic, leading to the melting of polar ice, as well as significant sea temperature increases and global flooding due to rising ocean levels.

Maybe; however,

It appears that that these dire numbers might not be accurate according to a the lead author of the new report, Oregon State University researcher Andreas Schmittner.

Andy sent this to me the other day. It's a pretty hypnotic video taken from the space station. 

Firefighters and equipment from Idaho are traveling to Texas to help battle the ongoing fires there. I think that is a pretty cool thing and hope they can make a difference.

Firefighters from Idaho left Monday knowing their mission will take them to the front lines of the fire.

Flames in Texas keep burning and their manpower is maxed out.

Officials reached out for help from around the country and a request came through the Boise Interagency Dispatch Center.

The Boise National Forest sent ten of its firefighters and two of its engines.

"Our engines are designed to operate off roads and they carry specialized equipment to deal with the wildland fires," said Bob Shindelar of the Boise National Forest.

The Idaho firefighters are going to Bastrop County, Texas. It’s an area in which hundreds of homes have been destroyed and evacuations are ongoing.

Unfortunately, it appears that other volunteers are being sent packing. I think that is extraordinarily uncool. At a time when all hands should be on deck to help, bureaucratic red tape is preventing that from happening.

It wasn't quick and it wasn't easy, but a steadfast group of scientists at CERN have come up with some pretty conclusive evidence that the warming and cooling "seasons" we have on Earth are a result of changes in the Sun. From Financial Post, c/o Right Wing News.

The science is now all-but-settled on global warming, convincing new evidence demonstrates, but Al Gore, the IPCC and other global warming doomsayers won’t be celebrating. The new findings point to cosmic rays and the sun — not human activities — as the dominant controller of climate on Earth.

The research, published with little fanfare this week in the prestigious journal Nature, comes from über-prestigious CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, one of the world’s largest centres for scientific research involving 60 countries and 8,000 scientists at more than 600 universities and national laboratories. CERN is the organization that invented the World Wide Web, that built the multi-billion dollar Large Hadron Collider, and that has now built a pristinely clean stainless steel chamber that precisely recreated the Earth’s atmosphere.