This weeks marks the one-year anniversary, Martian time (687 Earth days), of the Curiosity Mars rover’s landing on the Red Planet. I was
Conflict minerals
It’s a small world, thanks to electronics and air travel. The more contacts people have with one another, the more complex things get. Few
Opal
What do opals and Yellowstone, the world’s most famous supervolcano and national park, have in common? Opal, a hydrated silica, is closely related to
Fracking
Hydraulic fracturing – fracking – is a technique used with directional drilling that lets us tap deeply buried oil and gas formations. While it’s
Sprites, Jets, Elves, Gamma Rays and Antimatter
Update, July 15, 2018: I thought of this five-year-old post tonight when seeing this tweet: Red Sprite Lightning Taken by Paul Smith on July 14,
About Natural Disasters: Earth
We strut and fret our hour upon a stage that’s anchored to a sleeping giant with a bad case of indigestion. All may be well
