Welcome to the second Falls Society Roundtable wherein we discuss a pop culture subject in depth; this installment we take a close look at the pilot episode of Twin Peaks. Read the first roundtable here. *** DP: I have tried watching Twin Peaks twice before. I’ve never gotten more than 20 minutes or so into the pilot episode. …
Disquisitions
California’s Drought
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:…
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…
The Willing Destruction of Self Belief in Newspeak
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Why You Should Vote: Personal Opinion of The Immortal Goon
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