Documentary and older films are a quiet pleasure… But finding them can be hard. What are the tips you use for finding older and less common films? (Or, more specifically, videos of films… although in an …
Documentary and older films are a quiet pleasure… … I love watching them, but sometimes find them a bit difficult to find. Maybe you have this problem as well. Ideally, I’d like to watch them for free, but I…
Can you actually get the time and date from just a shadow? (installment #3) This is part 3 of the time & date from a shadow Challenge. This is all about using tools, and checking to make sure the tools work the way you think!&…
Can you actually get the time and date from just a shadow? This is part 2 of the time&date from a shadow Challenge. In this post I talk about some of the workarounds I tried in order to get an accurate answer to the question. …
Can you actually get the time and date from just a shadow? This isn’t the post I thought I was going to make. As you’ll see, this has turned out to be much more complicated than I thought it would be. So I’m going to do this as a multi…
I have to admit to loving difficult Challenges… … and this one was (I admit) harder than I expected… and much more fun!A sundial at 7:30AM in Southern California, as seen on one of my runs near Bolsa Chica.A Cautionary Tale for Teacher…
Photos usually have more information in them than you might expect… This is a photo of the SkyTree in Tokyo, Japan. (That is, 東京スカイツリー, Tōkyō Sukaitsurī) It’s the tallest tower in the world–taller than the Canton Tower (which w…
The parrotfish were plentiful… Diving with a few friends at the Salt Pier… and the weather very fine on Bonaire this past week. But in my post that told you I was here, I presented two small mysteries about these next photos.&n…
Floods come in all sizes… But this week we’re interested in the biggest floods that have reshaped the land at large. What can we learn about such events? Here’s the Challenge from 2 weeks ago:1. Can you find the 3 la…
It’s been a long, lovely week… Diving with a few friends at the Salt Pier… while vacationing in Bonaire, the home to parrotfish (see our previous discussion of parrotfish in SRS) and many other wonderful things to investigate. I’m …
As you might have noticed, I’m fascinated by floods. Flooding in Texas, 2021. P/C NSFWe’ve investigated floods before in this blog. See SRS in 2016 when we asked “what’s common between these floods?” or this SRS from 2020 w…
This tree is beautiful, but sheds like crazy… The canopy of the mighty oakReminder of last week’s Challenge: This is what the yard looks like up close: You can see a few leaves, an acorn, the cap of an ac…
That tree… The canopy of the mighty oak…in the back yard is, I was told by the arborist, a black oak. It’s certainly an oak—it rains acorns in the fall, loses all of its oak-shaped leaves, and is tall and massive—it’s a lovely parad…
Picking up from last time…There’s so much to say on this topic! Here’s my thought about the answer to the second part of our Challenge… 2. What’s the best advice you could give someone who is searching for great, high-qu…
What’s news to you… .. is usually information that’s timely. Unlike this post, which is woefully late. I meant to have it out last Wednesday (on schedule), but this is a complex topic that’s difficult to write about comprehensively, …