A friend on the opposite part of the planet sends along this, and wonders whether it’s an outlier or a harbinger of bad ski seasons to come: The non-profit group that runs southern Tasmania’s ski-tows is facing a loss of thousands of dollars after a snow-free winter. With the season due to end in three …
Not bottled water, apparently: The United Church of Canada (UCC) is advising its 590,000 members to stop buying bottled water, and expressing concern at a number of levels around the issue of water consumption. “The main thrust is our concern about the privatization of water,” UCC social policy coordinator Richard Chambers told the Canadian Press. …
super-miracle-bubbles Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Lissa and Nora got a screamin’ deal this afternoon on a big jug of Super Miracle Bubbles. At the Smiths on Carlisle and Constitution. L said they had one more left – maybe still there if you hurry.
YouTube is disruptive technology, even if this is about something that happened the year I was born:
I don’t know this subject well, but I’m pretty sure this is unusual: A strong earthquake occurred about 250 miles (405 km) south-southwest of Apalachicola, Florida at 8:56 AM MDT, Sep 10, 2006 (10:56 AM EDT in Florida). The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available. This …
My friend Luis, who was thinking hard and well about this stuff before he went to law school, co-links to my recent post on the blog-media-scholarship nexus and this Mike Madison post. There apparently is a discussion afoot in academic law circles about the blog, to whit: Is it scholarship? Madison suggests the question is …
So I’ve been cogitating over a blog post of a couple of weeks, a schtick about our local congressional race. But it seems events have superseded my attempt at humor before I ever had a chance to write it down. The schtick involved ads in which each major party candidate accuses the other of various …
San Juan Chama Intake Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. This is the intake structure for the city of Albuquerque’s San Juan-Chama project water. It’s just south of Alameda on the east side of the Rio Grande. (here on Google maps, but it hadn’t been built yet when this satellite image was taken.) The water comes across …
I have fond memories of playing pearball in the backyard with my daughter, Nora. Turns out, apparently, you’re supposed to eat the things. Who knew?
I have tried several times, with varying degrees of success, to tackle the “consensus ain’t science” shibboleth. (See especially here and the comments here). Andrew Dessler recently took an excellent stab at this in a couple of posts: see here and here. Might a “consensus” position be wrong? Of course. All knowledge is provisional and …