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McPosty: party reminder!
January 30. Corned beef, cabbage, excellent music, and general hilarity. Come early, stay late. (But do let us know you're coming, so we know how to arrange sleeping space.) -
more news, this time my sister in the Economist!
Okay, not as a direct quote, but she is the lead scientist for the Natural Capital Project described a few paragraphs into this article, and it's her recent presentation that the author is referencing:
Green.view Price fixing: Why it is important to put a price on nature(No, I don't completely understand it either--I'm a geologist, not an ( Read more... ) -
more jaw-droppingly cool geology
A Rare Glimpse of the Cave of Crystals
from BBC News OnlineMexico's Cave of Crystals stunned geologists when it was first discovered in 2000. The underground chamber contains some of the largest natural crystals ever found--some of the selenite structures have grown to more than 10m long. Professor Iain Stewart got a rare glimpse of the ( Read more... ) -
Underwater volcano FTW!
Click the link for news release with bonus wicked cool video:
Scientists Discover and Image Explosive Deep-Ocean Volcano -
Session-party in January!
Just to get this on your calendars, if you have any interest in a midwinter kitchen party: The next one will be Saturday, Jan. 30. I suspect there may be snowshoeing beforehand, and there will be good good, drink, and music aplenty. -
Son of Thanksgiving...
For those who will be arriving next week...and those who are too far away, but *should* be arriving next week: Here's this year's annotated menu. Some of you will find it familiar.
( Here be tasty goodness... ) -
damn.
Jerry Holland died while we were at Camp! this year, and I had no idea. He was, and remains, a giant in the Cape Breton fiddle world...and he was a kind, gentle soul who is gone too soon.
Travel safe, Jerry, wherever the light takes you. -
Bodhi and others incoming next week:
Any requests for next Friday's dinner that require a farmers' market trip, since the Montpelier market is Saturday ( Read more... )