Memnison Journal

BBC article about a cave full of skeletons from the Bronze Age in Germany, and how they matched the DNA to a couple of locals…3000 years down the line.

NY Times story that reviews the oil and gas drilling situation in the USA West, and finds that oil is very much secondary to drilling for natural gas. The reason is simple; that’s what is more plentiful.  And the oil production in the USA is dropping because things are getting pumped out.
Dusty Horwitt, a senior [...]

http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/images/des-plaines.htm
http://bulletin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/73/8/959
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Plaines_crater
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/maps-data-pub/cook-atlas/fault.shtml

The short version is that 280 million years ago, an asteroid decided that it didn’t like Bill Roper’s music and decided to nail what is now Des Plaines, Illinois.  Unfortunately for the asteroid, Roper wouldn’t be born for a number of years, so by the time he showed up, there was a 25 square mile [...]

At various times, I get into research projects; some simmer on for decades in various forms, and some break off and pick up speed because I happen to run into something that really fuels the fire, so to speak.
My library here is largely one that I use for reference. I have a huge amount [...]

Being unable to get around very well is a PITA all over the place, and especially on vacation. Wheelchairs (unpowered) are fine for travel on flat surfaces, but not up and down hills of any sort. I was lucky because the folks at Kentucky Down Under helped out with their [...]

As usual, the greatest complication in getting the twins together is that we live so far apart - and that the parents are absolutely necessary to be present in the process. Since the kids are eight, and VERY attached to their families, especially their moms, the trick is to get twin A to [...]

Another set of pictures on Susan’s Flickr account, taken from a day trip to Kentucky Down Under, a nice tourist trap in the Cave area in South-central Kentucky.  Sample picture below is of me in a wheelchair outside the gift shop, with the girls around me:

First set of pictures back from our trip to Kentucky (still in progress) are to be found at Susan’s Flickr account.   Here’s a preview:

A bit of complication to the picture; my brother-in-law’s family in Michigan is moving again, this time back to South Dakota.  They did *not* care for the poor suburb they were living in, the kids were having a rough time of it in a bunch of ways (especially recently), and I think the entire city [...]

I’m kind of torn as to what to do over Easter weekend.
Susan and Mere are going out of state (driving) to a twin rendezvous with the Harrington clan for a few days.  Connie is going back to South Dakota for her taxes and some assorted paperwork.  And I have two options; go with Susan and [...]

…but not Marmots.   VANISHING POINT for your inspection.

New geological map of Ohio available; below the cut is more for Ohioans and geology buffs from the Dayton Daily News:
 

Does anyone out there have any good leads on the theories on Kennebec Man and the concept of pre-1000 AD European(ish) people migrating to North America?  Yes, I’m fully aware that it’s a wide matter of controversy.  Mormon theories not included.
Similarly, is there anyone out there who can give me a lead on the stability [...]

And another dose of the 50 Most Loathsome People in America (for 2005):

“Began his career as a seemingly skilled and passionate muckraker, but having been exposed countless times as a shameless, megalomaniacal fraud, he absolutely refuses to get out of our living rooms. “
“…a woman so frigid she makes Gila monsters look cuddly, rode this [...]