When Katrina Hit California
A team led by Peter Gerstoft at UCSD just published a fun paper about seismic signals from Katrina picked up by a network of receivers in California. That’s a storm!
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Road Markings
A friend sends along a link to Squishy’s road markings gallery. I wanna know the stories.
That’s Dry
From today’s Drought Monitor: Yuma, Arizona, has recorded only 0.23 inches of rain this year, which is 12 percent of normal. (That’s 0.6 cm for my metric friends.) I’m not sure who would notice this amid the electronic buzzing and whirring and air conditioning and fountains, but Las Vegas, Nevada, has only had half an …
The Blogging/Scholarship/Media Interplay
This story got me thinking about what I think has become an increasingly interesting interplay between blogging scholars and journalists. It quotes Jeffrey Lewis, proprietor of the excellent Arms Control Wonk blog and manager of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center. Reporters depend on smart people willing and able to explain things. …
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Methodist Pies
I had to put on the leg and arm warmers for this morning’s bike ride. The cottonwood across the street is starting to show yellow. And it’s still dark when the alarm goes off these days. That can mean only one thing: it’s State Fair time! I love the fair for many reasons, not the …
John Fleck Kicks America’s Ass
Just so there’s no confusion, this is not me: At least, I think it’s not me. I’d remember that. Wouldn’t I?
Postmodernist Manifesto
Jeffrey Lewis with some amusing backstory on my story last week about Iran’s nuclear program.
Daybook
reading: Linda Cordell’s Archaeology of the Southwest. This is one of those standards that you’re supposed to have lying around to refer to, but who actually reads these? (I am, actually. Great overview of what’s known.) music: Stevie Ray Vaughn and Dick Dale doing Pipeline. Do they have waves in Texas? bonus extra track: Don …
Greenhouse Guilt
I’ve been riding my bike to work lately when I can. I can’t always do it, because some days I need a car to go out on interviews. Herein lies my greenhouse guilt dilemma. According to this analysis, cycling to work will cause a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions over my lifetime. While in …
Drought Perception and Reality
Expectations are as much a part of drought as is climatological reality. Take this LA Times story: CANTON, Texas — The effects of a long, stubborn drought are everywhere here: in the parched, wasted fields and the bony cows nosing the dirt for nonexistent grass; in the cracks splitting stone-hard earth and the worried faces …