GINNY BATES: DELUGE TO DRY
Late September 2012 Ginny finished braiding the challah and set it on oiled pans for a final rise. She stopped by Myra's desk and discovered her cutting small pieces of graph paper into rectangles and squares. "What're you doing?" "I'm making a diagram of my study, these are pieces of furniture, I took the measurements. I can what will fit where" said Myra. Ginny looked around herself. "You don't need to do that. You can't move these big shelves, they have to stay where they are. Ditto yo read
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." -Max Planck This post over at Pharyngula is bugging the heebeegeebees out of me. He says, "Michael White summarizes a common trope in the media and elsewhere; there's often a misleading attempt to shoehorn the gradual advancement of science into a more dramatic story of sudden breakthoughs read
One would think that the Grand Canyon, one of earth’s most prominent geological features, studied by geologists for 140 years, would be well understood. Wrong. “The Colorado River’s integration off the Colorado Plateau remains a classic mystery in geology, despite its pivotal role in the cutting of Grand Canyon and the region’s landscape evolution.” That’s how Joel Pederson (Utah State) began the cover article in GSA Today this month,1 a bimonthly journal of the Geological Society of America. Th read
(Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks, hand-colored block print by Kathleen Frugé-Brown, 2004, commission for the City of Kent, WA) Another excerpt from my novel-in-progress, Ginny Bates. If you are already a familiar reader, begin below. The action in the story resumes immediately after my post yesterday. If you need background, check the links in the sidebar on the right, fifth item down, to get caught up. 2004 The first week in November, at dinner with Chris and Sima, Margie said through a mouthf read
