Summary: Here is information on some aspects of the world’s latest natural disaster. Was the 20th century usually calm, geologically? {update: see graph at the end for an answer} Links to other posts about earthquakes and volcanoes appear at the end. Updates will be posted below. Also see About the atomic crisis in Japan – background information and news …
News about the earthquake in northeastern Japan Read More »
Earth was a benign mother during the 20th century, so that we forgot that changes in the physical world are among the most powerful drivers shaping history. Now we seem to have gone to the other extreme, seeing every change in the physical world as a harbinger of doom. Here are some antidotes to the nonsense circulating …
About our “certain doom” from the Yellowstone supervolcano Read More »
Summary: It seems there is no limit to the nonsense the major media will feed us to support their views. Today we see an esp. bizarre example. The news can make us dumber, if we are not careful. “Earthquakes Became Five Times More Energetic, Discovers Australian Scientist Dr Tom Chalko“, MSNBC (17 June 2008) — …
