So I’m still wrestling with Franklin Falls, I’ve 10,000 things to distract me, and I’m sadly behind on pretty much everything. But some of the stuff from my old days is going to be new to some of you, so what the heck – let’s share the ETEV love with Rosetta Stones. I shall show …
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Apr 29 2013
A Personal Post from Karen
I have a cousin by marriage — we’ll call her Mary for the sake of this post, not her real name. She has lots of health issues, though the most dire one is bipolar disorder. It keeps her from holding down any sort of job. She’s married to a guy who has troubles of his …
Apr 14 2013
The Mystery Fault, Part 3
In Part 2, we’ve established that the Silver Creek fault is, in fact, the southwestern boundary of the Evergreen basin. But what’s it doing there, anyhow? Back sometime around 10 to 15 million years ago, an early Hayward fault formed (an estimated 100 km (62 miles) south of where it is now) with a right …
Apr 10 2013
The Mystery Fault, Part 2
In Part 1 I gave you the setting of the Silver Creek fault. Here I’ll talk about how scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey figured out where the buried part of the fault runs. The earliest (I think) tool these scientists used to analyze the geology of the Santa Clara Valley was gravimetry. Gravimeters, developed in the …
Apr 07 2013
The Mystery Fault, Part 1
Sorry for the long hiatus, everyone, but life sort of caught up with me for a few months. To attempt to make amends, I’ll tell you a geologic mystery story that was just solved — provisionally — a few years ago. It regards a fault that crosses my home base, the Santa Clara Valley. It’s …
Mar 05 2013
Answering an Aspiring Author: Who Do I Love
The friend o’ mine embarking upon a program of self-loathing and torture bit of sci fi writing asked me about my influences, including novels and short stories. So I took a quick turn about my shelves in search of. I have lots, yet they’re only a tiny fraction of the SF universe, and tend to …
Feb 21 2013
Unidentified Flying Dinosaur: Nest Medley
You know something about winter I never gave a shit about before I met you lot? Leaves off trees. Used to hate that. Depressing little bare skeletal things scratching at the sky, dead season, awful. Then you came round with your bird-identifying ways, and turns out you like nests, and so now I have a …
Feb 20 2013
New at Rosetta Stones: Happy Birfdai, Parícutin!
Parícutin is 70 years old today! Go celebrate by reading its birth story. Well, part of its birth story. We’re through labor, not quite finished with delivery. I promise not to leave you in suspense for too long. You all know how this ends, at least: with a bouncing baby cinder cone, not to mention …
Feb 08 2013
Friday Freethought: “We Are Not Safe”
So here we have Lucy Colman: abolitionist, infidel, freethinker, and firebrand. Eloquent writer and difference-maker. Yet somehow she doesn’t merit a Wikipedia page. I wish I could say much has changed since her time. In ways it has: slavery is no longer officially sanctioned, women aren’t formally kept out of careers, and hey, blacks and …
Jan 30 2013
Fundamentals of Fungi: Nature Decorates with a Delicate Orange Crepe
No 2000+ word screeds today, I’m afraid – I’d had all the research done for what I wanted to write, only it turned out to not be what I want to write, and so I’m busy with further research for what I really want to write, which is hopefully going to be what I want …
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