- reading: Preparing for a talk at UNM in a couple of weeks, I’m rereading a couple of old sciency favorites: Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions and The Golem, by Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch.
- paper of the day: Abrupt changes in rainfall during the twentieth century, by some UW-Madison folks, offering a new and potentially useful statistical approach to defining drought (hat tip Daniel Collins)
- stuff I wrote elsewhere: A quick look at the proposed spent fuel reprocessing plant (very quick – as I suggested over on the work blog, this project doesn’t look like it has much in the way of legs)
- word of the day: pilgarlic – a bald man
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A few thoughts from John Fleck, a writer of journalism and other things, living in New Mexico
