First, Derek Jeter became the 28th baseball player to get 3,000 hits and he did it in style with a home run (only the second player to hit 3000 with a home run). Thank you Mr. Jeter for a great performance today and for the outstanding performances throughout your career, Mr. November.
Next, bad news. No rapture stuff but we may have entered into the 6th mass-extinction event. The following is from Robert Park's "What's New" e-newsletter: |3. THE FINAL SEWER: WHERE DOES IT GO WHEN YOU FLUSH? |In a special issue a couple of months ago Nature reported that there have |been five mass extinctions over the past 540 million years in which the |number of species declined by over 75% in a geologically brief interval, | http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN11/wn030411.html . If you're not already |depressed, keep reading; you will be. An expert panel of scientists, |convened by the International Program on the State of the Ocean (IPSO), |released its report a couple weeks ago. It warns that ocean life is at |high risk of entering a phase of extinction of marine species unprecedented |in human history. There is a growing conviction that life on Earth has |already entered mass-extinction six. Previous extinction episodes have |presumably been initiated by catastrophic natural events, such as increased |volcanism, changes in sea level, or asteroid impacts. Mass-extinction-six, |however, is decidedly unnatural, resulting entirely from the spread of |civilization. I'm going watch the re-play of the Yankee game tonight to feel better. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=11358 or send a blank email to leave-11358-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
