Hole In One

Ahh, Jupiter, my old friend and garbage disposal of our solar system.

See my post on Red Dawn regarding impact opportunities.

http://cseligman.com/text/asteroids/sizedistribution.htm

With an increasing number of comets entering from outside of our solar system things are becoming risky(-ier) for life on Earth. There have been many posits for where this stuff is coming from, such as:

Our solar system is moving through a more densely-populated and original-universe portion of our galaxy, which supposedly occurs every 16 million years.

Luck Favors the Prepared

And in the spirit of preparedness I created the attached spreadsheet using the Stanford/Hellman three-condition model to calculate the probability of a global nuclear war in the next 40 years.

Event and Conflict Probabilities

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/july22/hellman-nuclear-analysis-071709.html

Red Red Wine You Make Me Look So Fine

Hrmm.. maybe it's time I switched to red wine instead of beer.

It greatly reduces the risks of cardiovascular diseases
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/red-wine/HB00089

It wards off Alzheimer's
http://www.riverfallsjournal.com/event/article/id/92293/

It's anti-aging
http://www.ksro.com/Programs/KSROAMNews/Interviews/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10042390