Arctic Ozone Layer Looking Thinner
The WMO announced that observations taken from the ground, weather balloons, and satellites indicate that the stratospheric ozone layer over...
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America’s checkbook
In my circles, there’s an oft-heard idea that goes something like this: “If you want to know where someone’s heart...
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What would puzzle Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers today?
While I was a college physics major, I came across the book Cosmology, by H. Bondi (Cambridge monographs on physics,...
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Robert Hooke (1918-2003)
Today my father, Robert Hooke, were he still alive, would have turned 93. He was a remarkable person. My mother,...
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The Wasp
In the late 1950’s, when I was a high school student in Pittsburgh, life was simpler. Take electronics. One day...
Did Monday's Storm Set a Reporting Record?
A storm system that stretched from the Mississippi River to the mid-Atlantic states on Monday brought more than 1,300 reports...
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“From the cockpit, this is your captain speaking…”
If you’ve read the April 5 and March 30 posts, you know that we’ve been working (maybe even overworking?) an...
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Thinking outside the box…after centuries of boxing ourselves in.
One hoary chestnut? Bad enough. But two of ‘em, end-to-end? What’s up with that? Simply this: these two overworked clichés...
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Vision.
Do you want to know tomorrow’s weather? Most of us do. And we know how to get the forecast we...
New Tools for Predicting Tsunamis
The SWASH (Simulating Waves until at Shore) model sounds like something that would have been useful in predicting the tsunami...
