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The Mayan Grinch

There’s a small stormy teacup about the Mayan calendar coming to an end – a civilisation that used rope to keep track of time and came to an end themselves before they ran out of rope.  It seems that the … Continue reading

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Climate stasis

It’s time to drop in my 2c on the topic of the moment: climate change. Not happy with definitions like “the climate is what the weather is usually like”, climatologists have defined climate as something more like this: The average … Continue reading

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St Francis Dam Failure

My wife is reading about the dam busters bombers, which set me to reading about dam failures. I found an incredible* presentation about the St Francis Dam failure. It is entitled a “Reassessment of the St Francis Dam failure” This … Continue reading

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