Reading The Record Of The Tree Rings
Scientists have studied natural climate change for quite a while. Part of what we have learned about past climates comes from tree rings, and thereon hangs an interesting tale going back more than a...
View ArticleMore Time To Eat Your Potatoes
One of my mother’s friends was raised decades ago on a few acres at the end of gravel road in Idaho. As she puts it, her family’s basic challenge was eating what it produced before other critters did....
View ArticleEspaillat Congratulates Obama
Tonight, Senator Adriano Espaillat (D – Manhattan/Bronx) released the following statement regarding the killing of Osama Bin Laden, mastermind of the September, 2001 attacks in New York:
View ArticleA New And Growing Crop
This Summer has been filled with acrimony about the federal budget, with red versus blue politicians squaring off to hurl criticisms at each other. For a lot of us, turning on the news has felt like an...
View ArticleWater, Water, Not Quite Everywhere
When I was a kid I was “born again,” a process that involved being fully and totally immersed in water. Much more recently I was on the home stretch of an 8-mile walk in the hot sun when the minister I...
View ArticleFighting The Law And Saving Money
The laws of physical science teach us we can neither create nor destroy energy. But it’s also a simple fact that we can surely waste it. And that raises the possibility ofsaving money by refusing to...
View ArticleBreeding Better Wheat
I spent this past summer trudging through six-mile treks each weekend with two good friends. We walked along the edge of wheat fields outside of town. (My friends and I qualify as middle-aged ladies,...
View ArticleStepping Back From Dam Power
Just over a century ago, when William Howard Taft was president and I was a young woman, an entrepreneur named Thomas Aldwell started building a dam in the Northwest woods of the Olympic peninsula in...
View ArticleDoing More With Less On The Road
Between the debt-ceiling kerfuffle and Hurricane Irene, you may have missed two bits of summertime news that will be important for what we drive in the coming years.
View ArticleHot Diggity Dam
As the long season of darkness sweeps over the country, it’s a natural time to think about lighting – and how dependent we are on electricity during this dim time of year. You can heat your home with...
View ArticleUS Citizen From Bronx Becomes A Man Without A Country
Here is an American story for you. Abdo Hizam, born in 1980 in a small village in Yemen to a Yemeni-American father, received an American passport as a child of Americans.
View ArticleFeds Investigate Password Requests
U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Charles E. Schumer today called on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch a federal...
View ArticleGolden Gate Bridge Turns 75
It is countdown to the celebration of the year—the Golden Gate Festival on Sunday, May 27, 2012.
View ArticleMemorial Day 2012
Memorial Day is a solemn day of remembrance for those who have died serving our country. It is also a day to recognize the obscenity of war.
View ArticleKeeping Perspective With The Help Of Geologic Events
Maybe you vote red, or maybe you vote blue. One thing is certain: with the upcoming election, we Americans seem to feel what divides us more keenly than what unites us.
View ArticleTribute To The Victims Of The September 11 Attacks
Please take a moment to remember those who were lost on this tragic day 11 years ago today.
View ArticleLabor Day Celebrates The Uniqueness Of U.S. Labor
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to...
View ArticleThe Vital Grid
Some say it is the most complicated machine we have ever built. We rely on it not just each day, but each moment of each day. It reaches into our homes, factories, offices and stores. And at times it...
View ArticleNewtown, CT
The heinous incident in Newtown has a Grinch-like effect on this wonderful holiday season.
View ArticleThe Bridge Fuel
To a geologist like me, it was most notable by its absence in the political campaigns that lurched to their conclusions in November. I’m talking about an energy plan with real teeth, one that addresses...
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