Saturday, August 4, 2012

Macro on a Budget: Eye of the dragonfly

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Last weekend we saw this estimable creature clinging to our mini-vineyard: It's a common green darner dragonfly, the Washington Sta...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Big Bay Bang: In a Long Line of Accidental Pyrotechnics

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As a writer in history and technology I try to group current events with some class of earlier, comparable mishaps. In this case the class i...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

Oceans of Mystery: Another newly discovered seamount

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In this January 2011 post I described a North Pacific seamount discovered in 1950 by the research ship Cobb . In waters thought to be two m...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

A Traveler's Tale, Part 3: The Root-Cause Conclusion

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Part 1 and Part 2 : Rick Asplundh plans an easy test of the company's time machine at the request of the R&D Division chief, i...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Train collision in Oklahoma: Jump or die

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I mentioned in this post, Unstoppable and the Story of CSX 8888 , that railroad companies don't permit engineers to leap from a moving t...
Saturday, July 7, 2012

Root Cause Analysis: The Traveler's Tale, Part 2

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Recap of Part 1: In the first installment about our analytically-inclined time traveler , Rick Asplundh plans an easy test of the company...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Howl of the Machine: Audio from Rena on the rocks

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Nine months ago I was intrigued by an  article from the New Zealand Herald in which witnesses aboard the wrecked Rena described unearthly...