Dec 29 2009
I published my first post on May 28, 2009 and some 23 or 24 have now followed. Before moving on to a new post I thought I would talk a bit about what the process of blogging. means to me. My grandfather came to this country from Scotland and went to work for the Southern [...]
Dec 25 2009
As I have written about various scientific topics, I have frequently come across a term that was new to me but not to science,”Occam’s Razor,” which seems a bit mysterious at first glance. As a logical term I think a loose colloquial translation would be “simpler is better.” Ockham is an English town that was [...]
Dec 20 2009
On November 28 th I posted on Mars and briefly noted that the red planet has been the subject of fiction as well as science. When it comes to Mars, American fiction begins with Edgar Rice Burroughs who is best known for his Tarzan stories but perhaps not for long. Burroughs was born in Chicago [...]
Dec 16 2009
I have noted a couple of new developments on prior posts. On November 22, 2009 I wrote a post on the Hawaiian “hot spot” that has given rise to the volcanic activity in the Islands. On December 3, 2009 the Carnegie Institution for Science reported on the results of the Plume Lithosphere-Lithosphere Undersea Melt Experiment [...]
Dec 13 2009
I published the first post to my blog in May. During the relatively short time of my blog’s existence, nothing has created as much controversy as a statement I made in a post in August about a wind farm in Nevada.I noted a statement from the National Wildlife Foundation that said global warming could raise [...]
Dec 12 2009
Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai ‘Nga’ je Ngai’, the House of God. Closer to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard [...]