An Antarctic Appeal
If you’ve visited the site lately, or follow me on Twitter, you’ll notice that I’ve been raising funds for a trip to the Ross Sea early next year.
Longtime readers won’t be surprised to hear I’ve been scheming to get to the Antarctic. You can’t be as restless a traveler as I am without feeling a…
Confronting New Madrid (Part 2)
(This is the second half of an earlier post. If you don't read it, you will understand nothing).
Phyllis talks a lot about “the wrong kind of earthquake”. The wrong kind of earthquake in the central United Sta…
Confronting New Madrid
Connoisseurs of disaster know that the official map of seismic hazards in the United States paints a fat red bull’s-eye in the middle of the country, right where Missouri dovetails into Arkansas:
FEMA expects a major earthquake in the central United States to be the
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The story of America's most awesome infrastructure project.
Argentina on Two Steaks A Day
Eating the happiest cows in the world
Scott and Scurvy
Why did 19th century explorers forget the simple cure for scurvy?
No Evidence of Disease
A cancer story with an unfortunate complication.
Controlled Tango Into Terrain
Trying to learn how to dance in Argentina
Dabblers and Blowhards
Calling out Paul Graham for a silly essay about painting
Attacked By Thugs
Warsaw police hijinks
Dating Without Kundera
Practical alternatives to the Slavic Dave Matthews
A Rocket To Nowhere
A Space Shuttle rant
Best Practices For Time Travelers
The story of John Titor, visitor from the future
100 Years Of Turbulence
The Wright Brothers and the harmful effects of patent law
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