Last Fall, I wrote a Katrina online activity entitled, Hurricane Katrina: A Citizen Resource. This citizen resource is designed to help us understand the magnitude of this natural disaster, and to point us toward ways to reduce the destruction and loss of life caused...
I came across an interesting article No, One Quake Did Not Lead to Another, in New York Times Online. The article pointed out that following Hawaii’s 6.7 quake on October 15, two other big quakes occurred, a 6.8 near Papua New Guinea, and a 6.4 off the coast of...
In the wake of the mid-October Hawaii quake, scientists are not sure whether the >6 aftershock was an aftershock, or an independent earthquake. The first quake, which was measured at 6.7 on the Richter scale occurred at 7:07 A.M. at a depth of 24 miles; the second...
The other day I heard a CNN news-reader, during the time when readers don't read, but speak for themselves, say right after a story of the October 15th big Hawaii earthquake: "My, what a strange place for an earthquake to take place!" So much for earth science...
The other day I heard a CNN news-reader, during the time when readers don't read, but speak for themselves, say right after a story of the October 15th big Hawaii earthquake: "My, what a strange place for an earthquake to take place!" So much for earth science...
The short answer is yes. Here's a longer answer. In 1986, Richard Rhodes published the Pulitzer Prize book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb giving us a sweeping account of the making of the first atomic bomb, including who and how they did it. Image: The Making of the...