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1,000 Great Places in Massachusetts
Getting an idea from the 1,000 places to See Before You Die, Massachusetts decided to put together a list of 1,000 great places in Massachusetts. It’s a mixed bag of places, with some obvious choice, some obscure places, and some head scratchers. The worst part of the list is that it’s sloppy. There are at [...]
Scary Guatemalan Sinkhole
When I first saw this picture, I thought it was fake: It appears to be real. Street view of the sinkhole Other views of the sinkhole from CNN Guatemala: First, volcanic eruption; then, devastating tropical storm in Boing Boing Apparently, the city sits on top of a Karst formation. The underlying limestone is highly soluble [...]
Videos from the Deepwater Horizon Spill
The US Coast Guard has published a few videos showing the underwater efforts to stop the gushing oil. Here is the oil and gas stream from the riser of the Deepwater Horizon well May 11, 2010. This video is from the larger of two existing leaks on the riser. This leak is located approximately 460 [...]
Why Isn’t Boston Flooded?
With the rest of the state underwater, why has the City of Boston stayed dry? After all that same Charles River that runs along the Back Bay is the same river that has over-spilled its banks throughout Metro West. You would think that Storrow Drive, the Esplanade and the Hatch Shell would be under water. [...]
The Revolutionary Future of Publishing
Will the world of book publishing be subject to the same revolution as the music industry because of digital content? With the Kindle (or iPad or Nook) do to books what the iPod did to record albums? It’s not my question to answer. But Jason Epstein from the The New York Review of Books has [...]
America’s Cup – Now Brought to you by BMW and Oracle
With all of the non-traditional sport focus on the Olympics, I nearly missed the news that the America’s Cup sailing competition was happening in Valencia Spain. The BMW Oracle team triumphed over the Alinghi team. That means the US boat beat the Swiss boat. Part of my family comes from Newport, Rhode Island, so I’ve [...]
The Winter Olympic Events I Want to See
I don’t have Olympic fever because I’m not that interested in the headline events. My tastes are a bit quirkier. I hate ice skating. The downhill events are boring, except for the crashes. The snowboard halfpipe is fun, but I can’t tell when one person is doing better than the other. These are the events [...]
Who Says You Need a Mountain to Snowboard?
They got feet of snow in Washington, D.C. with no mountains to go snowboarding. Who needs a mountain? With that much snow on the ground and limited plowing, all you need is a Subaru.
Home of the World’s Worst Weather?
During an April storm in 1934, a wind gust of 231 miles per hour (372 kilometers per hour) threw itself across the summit of Mount Washington. That stood as a record for the all-time surface wind speed observed by man. Until two weeks ago. On January 22, 2010, the World Meteorological Organization released a report [...]
A Disappointing End to the Patriots’ Season
It’s always tough when your playoff season ends with a loss. It’s really tough when the team lays an egg like the Patriots did today in their playoff loss to the Baltimore Ravens. That means enjoying the playoffs for the thrill of the competition and thinking ahead to next year. Because there is always next [...]
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