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Tracing the Sun from Solstice to Solstice
Today, December 21st, would have been my mother’s 99th birthday and of lesser import it is also the Solstice, the first day of winter in the north and summer in the south. To celebrate, watch this amazing timelapse video tracing the Sun’s apparent movement … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, Nature, Science, Video
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Aurora Borealis Live Webcam
Living in San Francisco one learns to not get too excited about our planet’s celestial shows. In the summer and winter it is often overcast so the Leonid and Perseid meteor showers are almost never visible. So watching the live … Continue reading
Godric Gryffindor Inspires Name for Unusual Spider in India
A new species of peculiarly shaped spider has been named after the owner of the Hogwarts Sorting Hat. It’s almost as if the Sorting Hat apparated to a forest in southern India where it was transfigured into a spider. … Continue reading
The Ibex Code: Deciphering Iran’s Ancient Rock Art کد بز کوهی: رمزگشایی باستان راک هنر ایران
KHOMEIN, IRAN.- An Iranian archaeologist has spent years in an almost single-handed quest across the country’s hills and desert plains to uncover ancient rock art that could be among the oldest in the world. (.خواندن این پست به زبان فارسی … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Art, Science
Tagged Art, Culture, design, environment, Science
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Dam! That’s High!!
That’s atop the 200m high Kölnbrein Dam in Austria, on a metal railing that’s about 10cm wide on a cold windy day. What could possibly have gone wrong? I could not manage to watch that video straight through in one … Continue reading
About that Header Image of San Francisco Bay
The image at the top is from the webcam of the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California. It sits high in the Berkeley Hills and is one of the sites I visit daily. It’s an excellent ‘weather report’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, design, environment, Geography, Nature, San Francisco, Science, Video
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T160k is Ceasing Operations
Saying good-bye to one of my favorite crowd-funding sites. This is why and how it was begun: Timbuktu is a legendary name, but it’s also a real city on the edge of the Sahara desert in Mali. In medieval times, … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, History, Uncategorized
Tagged Culture, environment, Geography, History, Politics, Science
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Blind Rescue Goat with Anxiety Only Calms Down in Her Duck Costume
It all started when Leanne Lauricella went shopping at Marshalls before Halloween. She was browsing the aisles when something caught her eye — a child’s duck costume, complete with a big orange bill and two webbed feet. Lauricella runs … Continue reading
The Fukuoka Sinkhole, How a Government SHOULD work
Since government is (supposedly) operated with the consent of the governed and is expected to provide for the common good, you’d think that dealing with a disaster like this one as well as the Japanese did would be commonplace. Here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged design, environment, Geography, Japan, Progress, Video
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NASA Guide to Air-Filtering Houseplants
In the 1980s NASA joined forces with the Associated Contractors of America (ALCA), to determine the most effective indoor plants for removing toxic agents from the air. The study, led by Dr. B. C. Wolverton, found that some plants were effective … Continue reading
Stannous Flouride's Book of Truthiness 