World-class carnitas discovered near San Jose
If you’re driving between the Bay Area and Monterey on US 101, try and do it during lunchtime. That way you’ll have a chance to order a carnitas burrito and a tamarindo jarrito (soda) at El Coyote...
View ArticleGrouse season nixed; dukes to starve
A shortage of red grouse on British moors is leading to plans for cancelling the 2006 shooting season this year, for the second year in a row. At present, it’s not clear what England’s landed gentry...
View ArticleStable isotopes address a chronic problem
I eased into the annual American Geophysical Union meeting today at a poster session devoted to the dazzling secrets you can learn from isotopes. (Which was pretty much where I left off last year.)...
View ArticleSewage Part II: This seafood is making me emotional
It’s rare for the Scribbler to scribble about the same thing two evenings in a row (endocrine -disrupting chemicals in the water) …but I’ve just stumbled over a paper reporting, get this, the...
View ArticleTwenty Thousand Words on England (abridged)
***Warning to science-y readers: this is a science-free post*** **Except for the large slide rule and the paleoceanographer** *And the parakeets* Last week, the Scribbler E.U. Tour took England by...
View ArticleTake the First Annual Scribble Readers’ Poll!
Maybe the occasional Scribble Reader has wondered just who in the heck this Scribbler is. But let me tell you, that ain’t nothin’ compared to how much I wonder who the heck you guys are. But that’s the...
View ArticleCarnitas Ante Raised Upon Return to Santa Cruz
Central Oregon’s Painted Hills, in the John Day Fossil Beds national monument. The road trip is over. We wound 2,500 miles onto the odometer, took 414 photos, visited 15 friends, crossed the...
View ArticleIn Water Cycle, You Are What Drips Out of Your Factories
I’m sorry to report that yesterday’s post about disease-causing organisms in ocean water is only half the story: there’s also disease-causing chemicals out there, too. Now I realize that in the back...
View ArticleCute Baby Pictures #2
Here at Scribble Central let me assure you that we are far too busy collecting obscure but fascinating bits of ocean science to pay much attention to page stats. Nevertheless it’s distressingly...
View ArticleTilapia – 1, Malaria – 0
File under win-win: research in Kenya shows that by raising tilapia, locals can reduce the population of a malaria-carrying mosquito (by a whopping 94%), then harvest the fish for the dinner table....
View ArticleWorld-class carnitas discovered near San Jose
If you’re driving between the Bay Area and Monterey on US 101, try and do it during lunchtime. That way you’ll have a chance to order a carnitas burrito and a tamarindo jarrito (soda) at El Coyote...
View ArticleGrouse season nixed; dukes to starve
A shortage of red grouse on British moors is leading to plans for cancelling the 2006 shooting season this year, for the second year in a row. At present, it’s not clear what England’s landed gentry...
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