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Hello Science Fans, I hope that the break in the weather we have been having has been enjoyable. Quite honestly I rarely check the weather forecast so I can’t comment on what’s ahead, except to let you know that I guarantee there will be weather and we have no option but to deal with it. The other side of that is that I am amazed at how accurate forecasting can be.

Hello Fans of Informal Science Education and Excellent Local Museums, I hope that you have fared well during the recent storms that we have been experiencing. I'm sending this brief SciSchmooze announcement to encourage you to offer some help to CuriOdyssey, one of the Bay Area’s local jewels of science and natural history museums, they didn’t fare so well. (Please check that link!) You may know that I sometimes advocate for some of my favorite things, I hope you will consider this.

Welcome again, We get such good feedback from so many of you that i often think of you as colleagues. Lately i’ve been living less than a hundred meters from a heavily-traveled 6-lane, 55 mph thoroughfare. (Quick question: ¿Of the world’s 190+ nations, how many officially use “miles” instead of kilometers for road signs? Answer below.) All but a tiny portion of the vehicles zooming by are gobbling up fossil fuel and spewing out CO2. There’s not much i can do about that … but i did a little.

Hello again Science fans! This past Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, a UN organization) released their final report on the climate. Basically, we’re on the brink of irrevocable damage to the planet. The UN Secretary General said “This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every timeframe.

Hello Science/Art fans, I’d like to start out a bit different this week. First I suggest that you watch this… David Attenborough: 'Nature once determined how we survive. Now, we determine how nature survives' (This starts a few minutes into the talk.

Welcome Time Science Jumpers, Depending on how you look at it, is it the same time or are we now living in a different time? If you are tired of the rain you got to skip an hour of it last night! I have mentioned in the past the question about what time is it on the moon. You may have seen more about it recently. Time was measured much differently in 1969! This might be another way to manage time also. Something very timely this week is ūĚõĎ Day.

Welcome dear science-aware reader, I’ve been slogging through The Climate Book created through the efforts of Greta Thunberg. It is an astounding collection of 84 short ‘essays’ by scientists, economists, visionaries, philosophers, and respected authors. The book has 5 sections: The 5 sections are divided into 18 subsections, each with an introduction by Greta Thunberg.

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Hello Science Positive Friends, It’s hard to believe how fast “time flies” these days. There is one thing I look fondly on about the Times of Covid, that’s the traffic! Remember how easy it was? It seems like we are back to driving way too much and there are a few out there who seem to have forgotten how to drive safely and share the road. I think it would be great if we all slowed down and scheduled time better, as we did for video meetings.

Hello Science Lovers, Fans, Aficionados, and even Doubters, Happy Darwin Day If you live near San Francisco you probably think occasionally about earthquakes and what it would be like to have a massive one here. The 1989 Loma Prieta quake doesn’t qualify as massive, relative to what often happens around the world. We live in an area where seismic standards have existed for many years and they are generally enforced.