July 18, 2008
July 12, 2008
Fire light vs eclipse light
This photo was taken 6 years ago [10 June 2002] during a partial solar eclipse.
You can see images of the eclipse in the light that is passing through trees and hitting the wall behind Owen and Cole.
But I remember the funny smoky quality of the light that day. It was as if someone was blocking the sun with a filter. I guess the someone was the moon.
Anyway, every morning nowadays I'm reminded of this eclipse, because the sunlight coming through the diffuse smoke from the zillion California fires (still burning) strongly reminds me of it.
Explosions appearing too frequently in popular science books
I don't have a problem with any of them, I just don't need to read any more about them, thank you, especially when I'm not expecting to read about things blowing up.
1) The Tunguska event.
2) Krakatoa. For example, it appears early on in the Carl Zimmer book on E. Coli. It was a little strained, working it in.
3) The KT exinction. ("For example, scientists now believe that the extinction of the dinosaurs..."). Well, yes. I've read about this one in too many non-paleontological contexts, also.
Can we all just watch the video, instead?
All of July 2008
June 2008
