In a blow to professional meteorologists, a recent poll of 2,000 Americans showed that 58% of U.S. adults believe that Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow is an accurate indicator of whether there will be winter, with one quarter of Americans “strongly agreeing” with this statement. Unfortunately for America’s favorite groundhog, his forecasts verify even worse […]
Ridges, Inversions, and East Winds
For our high school senior portraits in the Garfield High School yearbook, we had the option of putting a quote next to our name. I quoted the great John Ruskin, a multi-talented, leading English art critic of the Victorian Era. Ruskin wrote the following; I could only include the bolded portion due to space constraints […]
A Week of Reciprocals
Friday, January 25, 2013 12:32 A.M. Well, after one of the most horrendously academic stretches ever, I’m back to having some free time. Most people would consider this break in work I am experiencing relatively small compared to their schedules, but I consider it massive in depth, breadth, and lack of activity. (Although I have […]