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Wacky weather caused by global warming continues. Consistent with predictions that this would be a stormy summer, July has set a record for the number of tropical storms spawned in the Atlantic. It was also the second hottest July on record, and a month that saw some of the greatest extremes of drought and flooding ever recorded. The Indian city of Mumbai experienced a massive 37-inch rainfall in July, while the US Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, Spain, Portugal, and parts of France, China and Australia experienced some of the worst drought conditions ever recorded.
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Would you like to be able to hear Glenn Gould, the genius pianist who died in 1982? A company has invented a way for us to be able to do just that. The same thing was done many years ago with the creation of piano rolls for player pianos. Artists like Scott Joplin played tunes that were “recorded” on the rolls and can still be listened to today.

A software company called Zenph Studios has discovered a way to take a recording from a record and convert it into a live performance played by a real piano. Gould is a perfect candidate for this process, since during his lifetime, he gave almost no live concerts, preferring to make records instead.
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Stories of two-headed serpents and epic battles between Thunderbird and Whale, common among Northwest native peoples, have their root in the region’s earthquake history, according to research by scientists at the University of Washington, who have learned there was a huge Seattle fault earthquake around 900 AD.
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Ever since DNA testing has allowed us to find out who the father of a baby really is, we drive by huge billboards telling Dads they should get their babies tested before paying child support. There’s a reason for this: British researchers have discovered that about 4% of fathers are supporting a child who is not their own.
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