California’s four year drought is finally starting to get national attention, and since other people are chiming in with their two cents, I figure I will too. I’m an authority, after all – I’m a geologist, I’ve studied hydrogeology, California’s Central Valley is my home, and I lived a quarter of a century in a place with lots of water:…
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I'm a geologist living in the great state of California.
Jack of Spades
Two classic music videos from the band 2029. These are great examples of mid-to-late 90’s Cascadian-Noir Metal that was popularized among the disenfranchised youth of the Oregon coast. Places like Newport, South Beach, and Beverly Beach were havens for this music revolution. 2029, along with the coast-rat punk band, Soldiers of Misfortune, helped change the face of music in the Pacific Northwest’s post grunge era.
These videos were produced by the multimedia artist, and visionary, DJ Danimal Styles.
Colonizing the Solar System and the Cosmic Manifest Destiny
I was taking a bath and perusing my Twitter feed earlier today, as the unemployed geologist is wont to do, when I came across an interesting argument. Essentially, this person, a woman who blogs for Scientific American, was claiming that the calls for colonization of Mars are inspired by the same white privilege that drove the colonization of the Americas…