Atlantis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantis_map_1882_crop.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantis_map_1882.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_L._Donnelly Gordon Stein has noted that “most of what Donnelly said was highly questionable or downright wrong.”[11] [Like Lemuria?!] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Atlantis.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scott-Elliott

Mineralized stream, Michael’s Cabin, Elwha River, Olympic Nat’l Park

is a preserved historic log cabin about 1.8 mi from the beginning of the , a major trail in . Near this cabin a small brook crosses the trail, and everything the water touches or splashes on is coated with (what looks like) lime.

Cloud Chamber an old apparatus with Climate-connections

loud Chamber tricks became a big deal during the scientific exploration of radioactivity, and atom-smashers. A clear chamber (glass jar) that is filled with super-saturated gas (can be just water-vapor; alcohol and others work better) displays a miniature condensation-trail when a subatomic particle passes through it. (The ‘tricks’ lie in creating the super-saturated condition.) A …

Bicycle Electric Motors – Brushless vs. Brushed

irstly], it should be understood that a conflict between brushed & brushless electric motor technologies had been a long-standing old trope, before the modern electric bicycle arrived on the scene. This is an old argument. Thus, the argument (or trope) actually came into being in the relative primeval mists of electrical-technology evolution. It’s a bit …

Soybean Taboo if you grow food, or minimize nonsense...

oybean Taboo was noticeable to average people in the American sphere, no later than the early 1970s. (This will likely prove to be the case in Europe, too.)  Especially the processed protein component (aka TVP Textured Vegetable Protein) that becomes available (and even a disposal problem) following grinding for the more-valuable oil-component (and its attendant …

Scientific Naming Follies

cientific Naming Follies is one of an ecosystem of systemic social & psychological diseases of the institution of science, and its associated individual temperaments. Lumpers vs Spltters is the old term for a high-profile struggle that marred earlier stages of Science. Some workers thought variations on a theme of animal or plant species (and other …