The kelp forests are magnificent.But how are they faring in the face of climate change? Photo by Dan, taken in a kelp forest near Santa Rosa island.As I mentioned in the Challenge, I mean JUST kelp–that is, members of the Laminari…
One of the glories of plant life on planet Earth are the great kelp forests along the coasts… Photo by Dan, taken in a kelp forest near Santa Rosa island.Near me, along the coast of California, is an 800 mile long coast that has historical…
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Curiosity…… is one of those personality traits that some people find endearing while annoying others. Personally, I’m a curious person, so I find a curious person to be engaging and fun. This week’s Challenges are drawn from …
Curiosity…… is one of those personality traits that some people find endearing while annoying others. Personally, I’m a curious person, so I find a curious person to be engaging and fun. This week’s Challenges are drawn from …
Yesterday I made an interesting mistake.. I’d seen an animated GIF of a cat. I thought I’d like to see it in detail, so I did what I thought was an obvious search. I did: [ cat filetype:gif]on the regular…
A bit more on fact-checking… Google puts in a fair bit of effort to surface fact-check information in the results. As you search, be sure to pay attention to the fact-check labels as they’re put on the page to evaluate questionable informati…
I’m sure this happens to you… You’re out and about when something captures your eye. Quick! Pull out the phone/camera and grab the image. Later, when you get back home, you can look it up. (Usually.) Recently I…
We all need some basic fact-checking skills… This week’s Challenge was about what you do in your personal fact-checking. How often do you check? How do you check? What do you check? A wave of assertions comes at you every …
People keep asking me: Dan, what’s the best site to monitor the fires in California? Or a variation on that: What’s the best site to get satellite images of fires in the West? Without going into all the detail, here’s my lis…
In the swirl of current news and political tempests, we all need some basic fact-checking skills… … and I’m curious about what you do to exercise the ability to do some basic checks on the things you read. A wave of assertions comes at yo…
Since our last post, the situation has gotten worse… When I originally posted this SRS Challenge, the fire map for the Bay area looked like this: Aug 26, 2020 Now, it looks like this: Sep 7, 2020While it’s easy to get …
As you probably know, … California is having what is probably the worst fire season in the past few centuries. It’s bad enough that I check the local Air Quality Index before I go outside to do anything active. When the AQI get…
Why is the US/Canada border so complicated and strange? If you look at a map of the United States, most of it kind of makes sense. There are lots of straight lines that are clearly the result of surveyors and politicians drawing …
Why is the US/Canada border so complicated and strange? There’s a lot of discussion about the border between the US and Canada. At the moment, the border is technically closed to US citizens because of COVID, and because of that, there…