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Central peak of the Sierra Madera impact crater in Pecos county, Texas. December 2003.
In the fall of 2003 I took a class on the geology of Texas with my Staff Education Benefit, which was very fun and informative. As part of the course, we had to do a research paper on some aspect of Texas [...]

I meant to write about this shortly after the talk so I wouldn’t forget stuff, but of course here I am over two months later trying to remember all the mind-bending (and space-time bending) things he discussed.
Kip gave a lecture at UT back when I was a student (c. 1993?), so that was the last [...]

In honor of yesterday’s anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing, here is a photo from the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the Apollo Boilerplate Command Module. I visited the center in September 2006, which was my first visit to the new facility, which is amazing to an air and [...]

Yes, I know I won’t be the first or last person to say that in regard to the new tropical storm that formed just east of the Yucatan peninsula. The storm is expected to move into the Gulf of Mexico in the next couple of days. Right now the track takes it into Texas at [...]

Well, I wasn’t expecting to get started on pointing to and laughing at religious nuts so quickly in this blog’s life, but sometimes these things just fall into your lap. First there was Ray Comfort and the bananas (I’m linking to a rebuttal video) and now there is this guy electrocuting pickles (spotted via boingboing):

I [...]

I think “the good, the bad and the ugly” would also sum up the evening. The “good” was the round of applause for Chris Comer and her upcoming lawsuit and hearing some ScienceBloggers speak, “the bad” was hearing more about the big fight that will be coming over the revision of the science standards here [...]

Dome of the 2.7-meter (107-inch) Harlan J. Smith Telescope on at McDonald Observatory, near Fort Davis, Texas. December 2003.
While I am working on some real content posts, I thought I would go ahead and start my Picture of the Week series. I mainly plan to use my own photos to start, but I might slip [...]

Yeah, well, so I *thought* I was ready to start blogging here regularly, but I just haven’t managed to do it. It’s not for a lack of things to write about, of course, but rather that other things keep getting in the way. I have a lot more people following my Tudor History blogs, so [...]