An update on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (sub. req.): Josh Frieman’s cosmic vacuum cleaner seems to be working. Perched on a ridge in the mountains of southern New Mexico, the big Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope spends its nights sucking down big swaths of sky. In three months last fall, it found 142 Type …
Good story this morning (sub. req.) by Leslie Linthicum and Tania Soussan on fire danger in New Mexico: Fire experts predicted an early and furious fire season in New Mexico and, boy, were they on target. Already this season, a dozen big grass fires have burned more than 100,000 acres, including a scorcher in Colfax …
Juniper pollen count: 943. This is a very large number. (Hat tip Matt B for the link.) I had to root through the bike gear this morning to find my summer gloves (those goofy ones with no fingers).
A comment worth pulling out onto the front page, about the latest success of New Mexico’s own Brandon Leslie (this is distance running for those not familiar with the jargon): Well it just keeps getting better for Brandon, He ran in the USA Mens X-C Championships on Feb 20 in the Bronx, NY, with bitter …
It was a Saturday family lunch at the Pie Shack that sealed the deal. Family restaurant decisions are a bit of a tangle at our house, with everyone having preferences and problems getting them all to overlap. An alternative to the usual choices? Let Andrea decide for us. Last month’s ode to the Pie Shack …
By coincidence, I’m drinking my morning coffee from this mug: It’s my favorite mug. Former quarterly (and printed on paper), the Bomb Town News Observer has gone 21st century: This morning my mate came across “Crazy Cat Man,” as we dubbed him, sitting out on the sidewalk in front of his house grinding corn with …
Johnny_Mango is on the beaver trail.
Lest readers of this blog think my only journalistic avocation is climate: LANL May Begin Building Nuke Pits By John Fleck And Michael Coleman Journal Staff Writers WASHINGTON— Federal officials on Monday proposed expanding nuclear weapons manufacturing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, part of a sweeping plan to develop new nuclear weapons for the first …
In which my buddy Steve gets a blog.
On Bob Civiak’s report on the Reliable Replacement Warhead.