Category Archives: Nature

Angels On The Head Of A Needle

June 9, 2013 – 5:46 pm

Gallnippers or mega mosquitoes have invaded Seminole County in Florida. According to entomologists at U Fla are about twenty times larger than the local mosquitoes and have a hall of a bite. Judging from the photo I can faithfully answer an ancient query which pesters medieval scholars. Thomas Aquinas wrote in Summa Theologica, “Can several [...]

By Peter | Also posted in Florida, philosophy | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Iceless

June 7, 2013 – 10:02 pm

NASA scientists have extrapolated an image of an Antarctica minus its thick ice mass. The polar ice cap has been melting over the last century. Even global warming fanatics aren’t predicting that outcome, which would result in a 60 meter rise in the Earth’s sea levels. One more thing none of the research suggested that [...]

By Peter | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

THIS AIN’T KANSAS / Bet On Crazy

May 21, 2013 – 10:34 pm

Every morning in 2010 I checked the weather for New York City. The forecast determined my attire for the diamond exchange, especially as the seasons of September seesawed between summer and autumn. The weather bureau predicted a temperature of 75 with rain later in the afternoon. I dressed in a lightweight suit. My umbrella was [...]

By Peter | Also posted in Bet On Crazy, semi-fiction | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Hail To Da Chief

May 21, 2013 – 8:37 pm

Hail storms are rare in the Northeast, but this afternoon my comrade Eric Bad Boy experienced hail driving from Albany to the Berkshires. “I thought we going to get hit by a tornado. What’s it like in New York?” “Sunny and humid.” I was fighting traffic across the Manhattan Bridge. There wasn’t a cloud in [...]

By Peter | Also posted in New England | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Oklahoma Isn’t Kansas

May 21, 2013 – 7:37 pm

Yesterday Oklahoma City was devastated by a massive tornado whipping winds over the prairie at speeds greater than 200 mph. The BBC reported that a record-breaking tornado that struck in precisely the same region in 1999, during which the fastest winds ever seen on the Earth’s surface were recorded: over 500km/h (310mph). While the early [...]

By Peter | Tagged , , | Comments (0)