Christo’s Running Fence
In an article written in 2016, 40 years after the Running Fence was erected, Sonoma Magazine ran this article: Christo’s Running Fence
the Anthropocene
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
CERN Courier review. Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics 27 November 2014 By Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon Prometheus Books My review: This was a snap to read, light on the equations, but with enough math to make sense, the story line follows the lives of Michael Faraday and James … [Read more…]
Manzana Products, Sonoma County’s last apple processing plant, moving to Washington state
Manzana Products, Sonoma County’s last apple processing plant, moving to Washington state Manzana Products cites the county’s low apple production and high cost of out-of-state apple transportation as the main factors for its move to Washington state.
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Finished this “classic” a few nights ago. Feynman is quite a story teller and if you haven’t read this and like zany, bongo playing Nobel winners, it’s for you. I wasn’t sure what to expect but he writes in short stories about his life and his opinions on a lot of subjects, he is brilliant … [Read more…]
Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists
Place holder for The Guardian article “Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists” “We’ve socially engineered ourselves the way we geoengineered the planet,” says Joseph Merz, lead author of a new paper which proposes that climate breakdown is a symptom of ecological overshoot, which in turn is caused by the deliberate … [Read more…]
how Vienna became the world’s most livable city
Place marker for this Guardian article on the city owned communal buildings, January 10, 2024. how Vienna became the world’s most livable city
The deepest map : the high-stakes race to chart the world’s oceans by Laura Tretheway
Tretheway, like Elizabeth Rush, is a very good nature writer. I had some experience working on mapping vessels back in my youth and it was very interesting to “go back out” albeit in my arm chair with much newer vessels and equipment. She builds up the background of ocean mapping, how little we really know, … [Read more…]
Elizabeth Rush – “The Quickening”
October 23, 2023 I just read Elizabeth Rush’s new book “The Quickening” in which she reports on a research cruise to Thwaites Glacier in 2018/19. Seems the first time the thinning sea ice would let ships get anywhere close was in 2017-2020 so there was some very good data gathered in those years. We are … [Read more…]
“The Blue Machine – How the Ocean Works” by Helen Czerski
Nov 22, 2023 Just finished “The Blue Machine – How the Ocean Works” by Helen Czerski. As you can guess, it is a non-fiction title, another scientist commenting on a topic dear to her and meaningful for most of us, a genre I’m finding attractive in my old age She’s a physicist whose work on … [Read more…]
Loosed upon the world : the Saga anthology of climate fiction edited by John Joseph Adams.
Comment on the genre of “climate fiction,” which now, in late 2023 is pretty well defined, this entry suggests it has been around for centuries but gained momentum around 2010. Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction) The Wikipedia entry for Climate Fiction contains this: “Technologies such as climate engineering or climate adaptation practices often feature prominently in works … [Read more…]