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Monday, 05 August 2024

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End of 'World's Hottest Day' Brou-HaHa

Ontario-geofish [21:09:00]

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 Remember that this is 6 days behind.  Those guys who splashed 'World's Hottest Day' got that wrong.  Then it was Oops - another one.  This was a little blip that has no explanation in physics.  Of course, it always has an explanation in 'Influencer Space' and for that, turn on Autobot, and it will say 'Climate Change'.  Some people always need an

A cure for alkies like me

Ontario-geofish [17:42:00]

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 How do you define an alkie?  Heavy alkies polish off two bottles of wine before dinner, and then go for a big hunk of strong stuff, and can live to 65 before the liver conks out.But there are those of us who have high anxiety, and need a drink to calm down after a tough (normal) day.  I like a bit of Scotch.But I have found a cure for 'alkie creep' which leads to heavier

The gongshi at the Bonsai Garden

Oakland Geology [17:01:36]

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Visitors to the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt, in Lakeside Park, are greeted by a large gongshi or scholar’s stone. With the garden’s 25th anniversary coming up this fall, I thought I’d give it a closer [...]

Fusion on the back burner

Ontario-geofish [15:27:00]

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 Fusion, like AI, is starting to run into physics.  I've always found that the physics you can ignore, is the long-term stuff, like scaling.  The short-term physics, like a hammer [...]

End of Summer -- Again

Ontario-geofish [14:06:00]

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 We had incredibly nice cottage weather this past week.  That was due to a strong Pacific typhoon coming over the mountains.  That gave us hot weather with a chance to sleep in the [...]

Tankers ha vuelto... en forma de crowdfunding

Koprolitos [09:09:00]

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¿Recordáis "Tankers", la miniserie de cómics de la editorial Bad Idea que trataba sobre una empresa que decidía usar los viajes en el tiempo al Mesozoico para solucionar la crisis del petróleo? Seguro [...]

The fun of failing companies

Ontario-geofish [01:22:00]

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 I ran into some info on company hijinks.  Similar things have happened to bozo-ing and Nortel.  For years, they kept their stock prices high by massaging quarterly [...]

Student Spotlight: Prioritizing Environmental Justice and Urban Green Space

State of the Planet [15:34:23]

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Aditya Mistry has pursued environmentalism through many different lenses. He brings his varied real-world experiences to the MPA-ESP

Planting Some Tree Species May Worsen, Not Improve, NYC Air, Says New Study

State of the Planet [15:18:40]

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New York is planting large numbers of trees in order to improve the city's livability. But emissions from some species interact with tailpipe and building pollutants to form

Part 2: The Limestone Caves of Hawai'i - The Catastrophes at Makauwahi Cave

Geotripper [10:00:00]

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 Makauwahi Cave and Sinkhole as it is todayI learned to my great surprise that Hawai'i has a few (very few, really) limestone caves. In part one I talked about the odd origin of Makauwahi Cave on the [...]

Missouri River, South Dakota's Great Divide

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [02:03:00]

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"What does the Missouri mean to you?" I was asked. South Dakota is one of those roughly rectangular states in the heartland of the USA. The Missouri River runs through it north to south, dividing it into [...]

The Shetland Islands

Earthly Musings [00:29:00]

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Next stop on this trip was the Shetland Islands - the northernmost part of Scotland. We anchored off of the largest city, Lerwick. It has a population of about 7,000 but I did not experience it as I selected [...]