I’m a New Mexican now, fully, but I remain a Californian by birth, family history, upbringing and nostalgia. That is where my family’s history comes together. My mother’s parents were part of California’s first great invention of itself in the early 20th century. My father came west after the Second World War to become part …
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Blog post of the week: David Appell’s riff on dogs and the fragility of modern existence. update: Shortly after posting, I saw this AP story: About 40 people, mostly Somalis, have drowned while crossing the Gulf of Aden on their way to Yemen in a desperate attempt to escape gunbattles back home, security officials and …
The folks working on the National Integrated Drought Information System have opened up a nice new web portal in an attempt to start integrating some of the disparate information collected on drought throughout the U.S. government.
Great post from Chris Anderson that will be near and dear to the heart of every journalist I know: dealing with press release spam. This is where PR firms buy massive mailing lists of reporters and just send their “news release” about SoftwareVisCorpMeta’s new release 4.6.1, which has many interesting new features for the underwater …
On this most sacred of holidays, it’s worth pausing a moment to consider actual pirate attacks.
Mom and Dad in the Bosque Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Went out to the woods by the river Sunday afternoon with Mom and Dad. The leaves are pretty much at their peak. It was lovely. And I see I wasn’t alone in my blog-flickr-journeying.
Johannes Koch of Simon Fraser University says “many” glaciers in Western Canada are the smallest they’ve been in the last 7,000 years: Glacier retreat in western Canada and other regions is exposing fossil tree stumps, soils, and plant detritus that, until recently, were beneath tens to hundreds of metres of ice. Dating of these fossils …
The Imperial Valley of southeastern California is a remarkable creation of a modern industrial-hydraulic society. One might argue that the story of the modern western United States begins there. It was ambitious Imperial Valley land speculators shortly after the last turn of the century who, as much as anyone else, drove the development of what …
Big Toe and Icebat at the Village Inn Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I was going through some photos I took Thursday night when I found this. Nora and I went to the Village Inn on Central, in part because they have sugar-free apple pie and in part because it’s an endlessly amusing place. Apparently Big …