Filed under: American politics, California, climate change, Syria, Water | Tags: California water, climate change, Syria, Syrian civil war, water politics, water war
Confession time: I can’t stand to watch the videos of Syrian people suffering and dying from the latest Sarin attack. Since I have asthma, I may very well die gasping for breath, and this particular horror strikes too close to home for me to watch. Here’s Charity Navigator listing their best charities for the Syrian conflict. Or you can give to the UNHCR for Syria.
Anyway, I decided to look back at my 2013 post on the Syrian Water War, to see where we are 3 1/2 years later. Has anything changed? Is there anything we can learn, especially with the current regime in the White House? Continue reading
Filed under: deep time, evolution, Hot Earth Dreams | Tags: deep time, evolution, Hot Earth Dreams
I’m not following the primary journals as much as I used to, so this pop-science article in Quanta on the rate of evolution caught my attention. It claims, apparently on the grounds of several different lines of evidence, that rates of mutation and evolution appear to run faster at short time scales than long time scales. In other words, there’s more genetic and morphological variation over short time spans than over long ones.
Paradoxical? Not quite. Useful? Very. Continue reading
Putting the life back in science fiction 