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It will soon become apparent that I have been reading the Economist. I was reading the Economist today when I was granted a flash, a fleeting glimpse, at insight into the tenuousness hold on reality that we give money. There was a passage in an article on the Anthropocene, the geological period in which a [...]
In August, I’m going to ride a horse through this place. Red sandstone rock formations, reaching 300 feet for the azure sky. One-thousand-year-old twisted juniper trees. And — evidently — ants that gorge themselves on honey (says Frommer’s).
The Colorado park is 1,300 acres, saved for future generations by a man named Charles Elliot Perkins, president of the Burlington Railroad, who bought up the land in the late 1800s for a summer home and then just let it be.
Rocks think they’re so funny.
For years, they’ve been skating around Racetrack Playa in Death Valley all by themselves. And only when nobody’s watching.
Rocks think they’re so hilarious.
Geologists have been bewildered by these roving rocks for decades — plotting the rocks’ paths since the 1940s. It’s obvious the rocks are on the move because they don’t cover their tracks; they leave behind long trails dug into the playa clay. But it’s difficult to tell what’s moving them around.
We did a podcast a short while ago about volcanoes. It was one of the more interesting ones if you ask me. Crazy to think how volatile the ground beneath our feet can be. As a great illustration of that volatility, here’s a cool article from the CNN blog today about a volcano in Hawaii that’s going nutso because of a crater collapse. Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments below.
In the third installment in their “When in Rome” series, Matt and Rachel take you on a virtual tour of another of the Italian capital’s beloved landmarks: the Spanish Steps. Find out why these steps are so Cool — and so multicultural — in this episode.
An actual landslide is an amazing thing to watch. Acres of land can slide down a hillside at startling speed. Here are three videos that are especially impressive…
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