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Florida Power & Light Company Selects SunPower to Build Largest Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant in United States

Image: "Big Sunrise at Big Cypress" by Bill Swindaman

Lately (if you were wondering)

I've been taking pictures of weddings with Ryan Sigesmund, writing scripts for Pittsburgh Genius, working on the Pittsburgh-Aguascalientes Sister City project, getting together with other local science writers, and showing photos at Art Cubed. Oh, and I went to Mexico.

Enough about me... here's something to ponder:

Here lies, extinguished in his prime, / a victim of modernity: / but
yesterday he hadn't time--- / and now he has eternity. -Piet Hein, poet and
scientist (1905-1996)

Eco-rant

I'm sorry, but this is bullshit. "Economists do not judge whether a parking lot is morally superior to a forest. For environmentalists, however, tastes are morally important--some are good, some are evil."

Do economists exist in such a rarefied environment that they're breathing something other than air? Forests provide clear, empirical benefits that parking lots do not.

If we would only put a price on the oxygen they create, not to mention the carbon they absorb, we might get rid of asinine false dichotomies like "the religion of environmentalism" vs "the science of economics."

A blue shell

A blue shell--what color is
sapphire? asked the artist.
The poet walks with his feet.

Your life, in a minute

A roadside flower seller, a prep school student, and a male escort. These are among the people profiled by Miami Herald reporter Poh Si Teng in an absorbing project called 60 Seconds, which aims to give a glimpse of individual stories in minute-long video segments.

Teng writes on the site, "Living in Miami makes me sad sometimes. I have never seen a place where the ostentatiously rich and the dirt poor neighborhoods are so close in proximity."

The project began as a way to raise awareness of that economic disparity. But now, says Teng, "it's grown into something more universal. ... This project has made me more positive about our collective future."

Puny primate quite a find for Carnegie paleontologist

David Templeton in the Post-Gazette:

It's smaller than a mouse, but this little character left behind the oldest primate fossils ever discovered in North America and Europe.

Its discovery in Mississippi represents a career triumph for Chris Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Oakland.

The arboreal "Teilhardina magnoliana" apparently was living in Mississippi in what was then the Gulf Coast 55.8 million years ago when a major episode of global warming was under way.

More here.

The Library of Congress is on flickr?!

Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies (LOC)
Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress

Check it out. They have some amazing photos posted.

One of my photos was included in an Etsy 'treasury'!

Thank you to Luna (faroutbabe) for choosing me to be in your treasury (collection of favorites) on Etsy! I am honored. The other work is beautiful.

The collection will be displayed till 3 pm Friday, February 29. Check it out and if you like what you see, buy something :)