I have all sorts of things I have been meaning to blog about (e.g., Olympics, political conventions, the supervolcano under Yellowstone Park that may destroy us all, and why I am not worried about it).

But instead, I am hair-on-fire busy at work and blogging is getting pushed to the back burner. Consequently, I will simply leave you with three links today.

1. Exploding Bat Lungs. "Holy crazy science story, Batman, how will we solve global warming if the animal-protection environmentalists stop us from building wind turbine farms and ultility-scale solar thermal installations?"

2. Arcologies. My brother wrote an interesting entry on giant structures intended to house humans (on a larger scale than has ever been attempted before). I commented, and even without my name on it, you would be able to tell the comment was from me (too long, gets lost in minutae, etc.).

3. Komodo Dragons. "Holy Komodo, Batman, I thought that man-eating dragons were mythologic, not real-life...and that Monday's front page story about them in the WSJ was a late April fools joke."