Hurricane Sandy: A complicated and developing situation
Taking a break from politics to point out a developing situation off the Southeast Coast.Hurricane Sandy has crossed Jamaica and Eastern Cuba and is now located in the Bahamas. The tall mountains on...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy: Still complicated, but now quite dangerous
I know graphics-heavy diaries are expected here. But there are several people who I know read me and I know are on dial-up. I apologize for the lack of visual aids, but I prefer to keep my diaries...
View ArticleSandy: An Update
I know graphics-heavy diaries are expected here. But there are several people who I know read me and I know are on dial-up. I apologize for the lack of visual aids, but I prefer to keep my diaries...
View ArticleMothership for Sandy: Your Prep Should be Done
I know graphics-heavy diaries are expected here. But there are several people who I know read me and I know are on dial-up. I apologize for the lack of visual aids, but I prefer to keep my diaries...
View ArticleSandy: A Post-op and Check-in Thread
In late summer of 1996 a hurricane moved northwest toward the US East Coast. This hurricane was named Edouard, and at one point, it was forecast to continue on that northwest track and strike near...
View ArticleSuperstorm Sandy? While Not Even Close, She’s Still the Shape of Things to Come
Hi there, and welcome aboard. We’re going to be doing some causality violating here in our time machine, so please keep all your fingers inside the time machine so we don't cause any intentional...
View ArticleOn that Maya “Prophecy”, or wherein I completely flip my lid
I’m about bloody sick of this. So here we go:
View ArticleTau Ceti might have Planets
News broke last night about a potentially exciting discovery. Tau Ceti might have a family of planets, one of them quite possibly, in the sweet spot for life.
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The Port-au-Prince Earthquake of January 12, 2010
National Palace in ruins Late in the afternoon on the 12th of January, 2010, the three million or so residents and visitors on Haiti's southwestern peninsula were going about their business. In...
View ArticleWhere to Find Open Source Science
In the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide after being hounded by Federal prosecutors, I wondered if people knew where to find peer-reviewed articles for free.It's tough.JSTOR and many other academic...
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"Nemo": In Defense of the Names
The Blizzard of 2013, or, Winter Storm Nemo. Now that “Nemo” is here and gone, I thought I’d offer up a contrary opinion. I like the names. I think they should be used. I think NOAA and NWS (who,...
View ArticleDon't Rape (trigger warning)
Over there at Twitter, there’s a truly disgusting hashtag.Now that’s nothing really new for Twitter. It is social networking and a lot of it is ridiculous. But the hashtag (LiberalTips2AvoidRape, and...
View Article"Y-Chromosomal Adam" possibly farther back in time than thought
A paper published last weekreported some fascinating news about humanity’s deep origins.A primer: We all know about the Y chromosome and the X chromosome. Women carry two Xs. Men have an X and Y. Now,...
View ArticleTsunami!
Every year around this time, NOAA, in concert with local, state, federal, and international organizations conducts a series of disaster drills. These drills are to raise awareness of tsunami and they...
View ArticleLarge 2011 Oklahoma quake quite possibly tied to wastewater injection
A new study currently in press at Geology strongly suggests a link between the November 5, 2011 earthquake near Oklahoma City and a process well known and used all over the world by the oil and gas...
View ArticleFundies, I get it, I really do, but grow up
I'm really not sure why this is so hard for some to grasp.
View ArticleIn Florida, High Schooler Doing Science While Black =Felony
Pretty rare that I have trouble writing something because it makes me see red. I normally pride myself on my lack of emotion. But this time, I'm glad I'm mad.
View ArticleUpdate on Florida teen arrested for doing science while Black
I’d previously written about Kiera Wilmot, the inquisitive Polk County Florida teenager arrested and expelled for a science experiment gone accidentally wrong.I can’t let it lay, of course because this...
View ArticleCharges Dismissed for Kiera Wilmot!
Some good news for a change.Kiera Wilmot, who I've written about twice now, has had the charges against her dismissed.
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What if a tsunami happened and almost no one noticed?
Tide chart from Atlantic City, NJ A silly question, for sure, but it appears to be something that happened on June 13th at several locations along the coast from Boston southward into Virginia and...
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