Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Airliner Chronicles: There Were Glaciers Here...

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Have you ever wondered about recessional moraines? I guess not too many people have pondered such a deep question, but on my recent flight...
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Monday, January 28, 2013

The Airliner Chronicles: Three Faces of California's Great Valley

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According to this interesting article from the New York Times , it's larger than 9 American states. It is th...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

The Airliner Chronicles: Wrinkles Tell a Lot About a Person (and the Earth, too)

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My grandfather had wrinkles. Lots of them. He was a man who spent a large part of his life working outdoors in the days before sunscreen l...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Moon and Jupiter in Conjunction: Last chance until 2026!

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Courtesy of " Science is Awesome " over at Facebook, here is a list of some of the most impressive astronomical events of 2013, ...

Leaving the Abandoned Lands for Greener Pastures: Wrapping up a Tour of the Colorado Plateau

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We'd been on the road for a while, back in June of 2012. Our tour of the Abandoned Lands had taken us on a grand loop that included G...
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Friday, January 18, 2013

1000 Most Common Words to Describe What I Do (a new meme!)

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Some Internet memes are irresistible. If professors are known for anything, it is verbosity. So it was that I was looking over the tweets ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The Abandoned Lands...A Journey Through the Colorado Plateau: A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow

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No wonder he abandoned the place...the best that Ebenezer Bryce could say about the national park that now bears his name was "It...
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