War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Darkly overcast this late-afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — chilly, too, which is just a reminder of winter coming quickly toward us. And with DST gone, the day becomes night real quickly, almost like a finger snap. Despite the outside gloom onset, the weather is a top-tier life force, always and forever more.…
Near-hot just at mid-day Monday here in California’s Central Valley as temperatures generate more than just warmth as maybe the weather feels as if it could leap spring altogether, and crunch face-first into summer. Weather is always newsworthy. Especially taken as a respite from the sad goings-on in Ukraine, though, weather stories are more dismal…
Skies will supposedly light up for Halloween this weekend thanks to a sun-stroked solar flare: (Video of yesterday’s solar activity found here). A bit of whimsy this morning in the face of ugly planet-bound news — a colorful sparkle for Sunday. Details via Space.com this morning: A massive solar flare from the sun could lead…
(Illustration: Tall El Hammam in perspective; image found here). Off the regular news cycle on a mid-day Tuesday with a shout-out to a historical study on the destruction of an ancient city supposedly caused by a ‘cosmic airburst,’ maybe the city of Sodom — yesterday I came across a report published at Nature on the…
Prior to the mega-heat ahead, the overpowering news item this Sunday morning is Richard Branson-influenced mini-space flight with the look and feel of maybe the early Apollo events, or perhaps the first few shuttle flights (which apparentlyy got ho-hum after awhile) — a certain excitrment, but a big difference before was national, governemnt-funded projects, today…
(Ilustration: Stages of total lunar eclipse in Universal Time (GMT), and found here). A lunar eclipse tomorrow morning to break the horror of political life down here on the flatlands of the mountains we have to cross every f*cking day. If you get up early — pre-dawn — here in California, you’ll be able to…
Today the 51st anniversary of Earth Day — began April 22, 1970, when life had a much-clearer feel and look to it, there was optimism in the long-range scope of nourishing our still green-ass planet. Just a bit more than two months later, the Environmental Protection Agency came into being, founded by Republican Dick Nixon.…
