The Origins of Life
In “What’s Next” I promised a dedicated post on the beginnings of life. Well, here it is, and it’s gonna be a long one so buckle up and grab an adult beverage to sustain...
Category: Earthtime
Life’s a Beach
There has been an increasing amount of discussion lately about the loss of sand on the beaches due to powerful storm waves. Much of this focus has been on Southern California, but the same...
What’s in a Name?
This one will of necessity be short — duty calls. I recently published a post regarding the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The subject continues to prompt countless articles that run the full gamut:...
Wire Gold
I had a question come in about Marker Bed and figured the response could make a great blog post that would wreak lethal damage upon a pair of fowl avians with one ballistically-launched projectile:...
El Niño Southern Oscillation
I’m probably going to get most of this wrong, but since even the guys driving the Cray supercomputers don’t really understand the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and what makes it tick, I guess...
Bats
Thanks to the nature of my job as an exploration field geologist, I have spent a lot of time underground. Again, because of the nature of my job, most of my time underground has...
Primary v. Secondary Industry
There is a lot being said these days about bringing back our nation’s lost glory. This causes me indigestion on multiple levels. Fortunately, two of them are easy to reconcile: I cannot agree with...
Deep Sea Mining: Part 2
Before we jump into the deep water, a couple possibly irrelevant tangents: I love the earth, am fascinated by its processes, and wish it a long and happy life. Anybody who has opened their...
Chernobyl and Evolutionary Change
It was early in the 1960s and my family had recently relocated from Nebraska to the Los Angeles Basin. Those were scary times! The Soviets were threatening to install nuclear missiles in Cuba, and...
Desalination (and political suicide?)
Another short one. I tried to abandon poli-sci over fifty years ago, but here I am… old and staring down toward the end of the tunnel, and sucked back into the swamp. I saw...
