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- Answer: Why are there contour lines there? Questions come from everywhere... ... in this case, I was just staring out the window and wondering "how did all of this landscape come to be?" As I said, when I looked into the Sierra foothills just northeast of San Francisco, it seemed as though some giant hand had drawn contour lines on the hills below. That struck me as very surprising. How […]
- SearchResearch Challenge (10/9/19): Why are there contour lines here?As I was flying to Seattle... ... I had the window seat that faced east as we flew north. Not long after we left SFO, I was staring out the window (because looking out an airplane window when you fly over wilderness is just the best thing you can do), and I saw the most remarkable thing. It looked like some giant hand had drawn all of the contour lines on […]
- Answer: Why are palm trees so tall? Palm trees are wonderful, but very strange... As you might suspect, they're not ordinary trees, but something very, very different. They're generally super-tall, able to remain standing in hurricane force winds. If you cut one down, you'll see a very strange and wonderful composite structure that looks nothing like an ordinary tree. There a […]
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Monthly Archives: November 2014
Ben H. Winters’ “The Last Policeman”…what would YOU do?
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters; published May 13, 2013 [9781594746741] What would you do if you knew that the Earth had less than six months until it was either completely or mostly destroyed by an asteroid? Would you stay … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, asteroid, end-of-world, mystery, police procedural
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Reviews of great books coming…the dry spell is over
Have you ever had a span of time when it seemed that you chose books that just never satisfied that itch that a good story scratches? Over the past few months, this has been my experience. At first I thought it was … Continue reading
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