2 Years Later, Grim Photos From the BP Disaster

I stepped off the plane in Austin and was immediately hit with a wall of heat… I wondered if we hadn’t taken a wrong turn there and ended up a bit closer to the sun than I had wanted. Funny, after all my  [more...]

The Bay Area is hazy today. In San Jose this is unusual, the skies are usually clear here with a little smog now and then; but today there’s haze everywhere you look because of two big fires. One is south of here  [more...]

Sometimes there are things in this world that just beggar explanation — like the story of the whale that swam up the Thames river, where sadly, today it died. People took notice of this rare event, watching the  [more...]