According to AccuWeather , an earthquake occurred in Washington, D.C. this morning. There was no significant damage and no injuries. U.S. Geological Survey map of the areas where the ground shook this morning.  Exit question: How does the Secret Service wrestle the ground to the ground?

Tom Fuller's column is a must-read. In it, he takes on the theme (promoted by lazy writers) that every storm , flood, and drought is due to 'global warming.' Tom is correct: There is no  scientific evidence it is true. Tom says, Politico has published an article  co-authored by the new head of one section of the IPCC report that says, "The urgent need to act cannot be overstated. Climate change caused by humans is already affecting our lives and livelihoods — with extreme storms, unusual floods and droughts, intense heat waves, rising seas and many changes in biological systems — as climate scientists have projected." I am unaware of those impacts and hope someone can point me to stories about them. The comment about extreme storms, unusual floods and droughts is not true. Roger Pielke, Jr. , comes up with the same analysis of the Politico article. There is simply no evidence that 'global warming' is currently causing any of these extremes.  To Tom and ...

BP reported that the well was capped at 2:45pm. I wanted to give it a few hours to see if the seals would hold. So far, they have.

Thunderstorms move in from the south only infrequently in Wichita but we have one this evening.

You have probably been reading about the post-Climategate investigations that 'clear' some of the participants. Not so fast. Here is an excellent story on the subject of why Climategate is important and why the 'investigations' were far from satisfactory.

This is really good news . In situations like the tsunami, the Haitian earthquake, or even a U.S. hurricane, this simple cell technology could save lives and get help to where it is needed.

The last roll of Kodachrome film has been processed in Parsons, Kansas, the final lab that handled the unique slide film. The Parsons Sun reports via the  Wichita Eagle ... McCurry told Dwayne's vice president Grant Steinle how he had chosen to shoot the last roll of Kodachrome produced by Eastman Kodak by capturing images around New York. "Then we went to India, where I photographed a tribe that is actually on the verge of extinction. It's actually disappearing, the same way as Kodachrome," he told Steinle. Kodak announced last year that it would retire Kodachrome, a brand name of color reversal film it had manufactured since 1935. McCurry, well-known for his 1984 photograph of Sharbat Gula, or the "Afghan Girl," published on the cover of National Geographic magazine, requested from Kodak to shoot the last roll of 36 frames it manufactured. I began shooting Kodachrome after I took a photography class at OU. Loved it! Paul Simon was right when he sang,...