Apropos of nothing except that I’m fascinated by the interplay between agriculture and urbanization in the West, I ran across this data this evening in the Census of Agriculture (and if I blog it here, I can Google it and find it later): Irrigated agricultural acreage in Bernalillo County (that’s the county in which Albuquerque …
Felix W. Landerer and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg say global warming will slow down speed up Earth’s rotation by changing ocean bottom pressure, in the process shifting mass around: We find a net transfer of mass from the Southern to the Northern Hemisphere, and a net movement of mass …
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Of possible interest to New Mexicans, on the price of uranium.
The first cattails are popping up in the backyard pond.
Moth on Screen Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Saw this guy this morning on our front door. I don’t know my bugs. Anyone in the audience able to identify? update: Chantal, in the comments, says: “That’s a white-lined sphinx hummingbird moth!”
Parrot tulipOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. The garden’s going all nutso pretty all of a sudden, and Lissa got some nice pictures for me this afternoon, that we might share with y’all. The parrot tulips are the showiest of all right now. Meanwhile, the grape hyacinth are everywhere right now – sprinkled through our big iris …
One of the great little New Mexico films, Tony DellaFlora’s High Strange New Mexico, is now available on line. (Hat tip The Fix.)
Radioactive Pencil Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. In July, 1921, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Walter Meyner, of New York City, a patent for the radioactive pencil. Meyner’s idea was to mix ordinary graphite with “self-luminous material of the type ordinarily employed in so-called `radium paints.’” The self-luminous pencil, or crayon, would be, …
White Iris Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. The little miniature white iris in our front yard started blooming this week.
Conservapedia is threatening to ban Nora. Her offense? An entry on the shovel: A shovel is a tool used for moving earth, sand and other granulates. It differs from spades because it is a real tool and not a suit of cards. My little girl is growin’ up good.