Odds ‘n Sods:

Reader D.T. pointed us to a Coast to Coast AM where William Forstchen discusses EMP Threats. (He is the author of the novel One Second After.)

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NASA reports: The Sun Has Reawakened. (Robert R. was the first of several readers to send me this link.)

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I heard that Noah’s Castle, a hyperinflation novel by John Rowe Townsend, just went back into print. It was written for the “young adult” market. The good editors at October Mist books in Seattle noticed that this British book from the 1970s was out of print. So they took the initiative of contacting the author to secure the rights to a new edition. In my opinion the book has some merit, but be advised that it portrays some bad teenage attitudes, and the premise of the novel is depressing and in the end, anti-prepper. (The only serious prepper in the story is described in unflattering terms that make him look mentally imbalanced.)

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Jeff B. sent me a link to an great new on-line computational engine research tool that is still in its infancy: Wolfram Alpha. You might find it useful, especially as it grows.

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Kudos to Tamara (editrix of the very entertaining View From The Porch blog). I just read that she’s been tapped to write the back page column, “Ballistic Basics”, for Concealed Carry magazine. (A hard copy magazine.)